Birthday:
02-11-1973
(52 years)
Birthplace:
Seoul, South Korea
Biography
Jeon Do-yeon (born February 11, 1973) is a highly-acclaimed South Korean actress who has won many awards including best actress at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. She is most famous for her extraordinary portrayal of a broken woman who has lost everything in Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine.
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Secret Sunshine
Act like Lee Shin-ae
event2007 star_border 7.2
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Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
Hostage: Missing Celebrity
Act like Self (cameo)
event2021 star_border 6.9
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A box office star has to prove his action credentials in the real world when he's kidnapped and held for ransom.
Revolver
Act like Ha Su-young
event2024 star_border 4.9
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Su-young, a police detective who went to prison for someone else, is surprised when a mysterious woman named Yoon-sun arrives to collect her on her day of release. As she discovers that the promised compensation for her time behind bars has vanished, Su-young embarks on a mission to reclaim what rightfully belongs to her.
Happy End
Act like Choi Bo-ra
event1999 star_border 6.7
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When a wife becomes the breadwinner of her family after her husband loses his job, adultery becomes part of her life.
The Housemaid
Act like Eun-yi
event2010 star_border 6.4
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Eun-yi is hired as a maid in a mansion owned by a wealthy businessman. He quickly starts seducing his employee who seemingly has little choice but to comply with his sexual advances. Soon the women of the family plot against Eun-yi who must fight an equally devious battle to protect herself.
My Dear Enemy
Act like Hee-soo
event2008 star_border 6.8
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Hee-soo is desperate for money and finds her ex-boyfriend who owes her money. He goes around to various ex-girlfriends to get cash and she trails along to make sure he does not cheat her.
No Blood No Tears
Act like Su-ji
event2002 star_border 6
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Gyung-sun is a washed-up cab driver who has been trying to go straight after years in trouble with the law after being a big-time safecracker. Soo-jin wants to be a famous singer, but lives the life of a trophy girlfriend to her vicious gangster boyfriend. An unlikely situation cause these two different women to meet where they plan a daring solution to both their problems that will escalate and threaten the wrath of many powerful and corrupt people around them.
The Harmonium in My Memory
Act like Yun Hong-yeon
event1999 star_border 6.6
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Hong-yun is a high school girl in little mountain village when she falls head-over-heels for a handsome new school teacher, Mr. Kang. What with taking care of her youngest baby brother for her widowed mother and the impossible age difference, it is a roller-coaster ride for her as she tries to become someone special for Mr. Kang while he seems interested in the other new teacher at the school, Miss Yang.
You Are My Sunshine
Act like Eun-ha
event2005 star_border 6.4
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An old bachelor Seok-joong, who has no experience in dating, falls in love at first sight with a prostitute named Eun-ha. At first Eun-ha shows no interest in Seok-joong, but gradually she begins to be flattered by his devotion and eventually falls in love with him. They marry. However, one day, Eun-ha finds out that she is infected with HIV and decides to leave Seok-joong.
Heartbeat
Act like Cheol-yi's Mother
event2022
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Caught up in anxiety, eight-year-old Chul in school tells his teacher that he is going to the bathroom but runs straight home.
My Mother the Mermaid
Act like Na-young / Young Yeon-soon
event2004 star_border 6.5
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Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.
The Contact
Act like Lee Soo-hyun
event1997 star_border 7.2
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The male radio presenter Dong-hyun and the female TV home shopping phone operator Soo-hyun are both lonely. While Dong-hyun is focused on getting back to his ex-girl-friend Young-hae who has sent him a special LP, Soo-hyun is crazy for her friend's boy-friend. Via Internet and music Soo-hyun and Dong-hyun get together in a special way.
Way Back Home
Act like Song Jung-yeon
event2013 star_border 7.6
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Jeong-yoon and Jong-bae own a car body repair shop together that gets in financial trouble. To help cover the losses and take care of her family, Jeong-yoon decides to smuggle thirty kilograms of cocaine.
Untold Scandal
Act like Lady Jeong
event2003 star_border 6.5
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In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.
Countdown
Act like Cha Ha-yeon
event2011 star_border 6.6
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A cold-blooded debt collector who never fails to get what he wants meets the beautiful yet mysterious ex-impostor whose every word is nothing but a lie. She has the key to save his life but he discovers that she only puts him into a deeper trouble. Time is running out and he needs to get it done while his heart still beats.
Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony
Act like Self
event2022 star_border 7.5
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A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, this documentary provides a thematic analysis of his films, most of which have been selected for and received awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
A Promise
Act like Chae Hee-ju
event1998 star_border 6.8
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When she met him at the first time, he was a wounded person. However, she saw him through his clear eyes hidden in the bandage. She, Chae Hi-Ju, is a doctor and he, Kong Sang-Du, is a boss of a bandit. The pair seemed not to love each other in terms of their position, but they were closed to each other giving up their own world. However, he was not a common man...
I Wish I Had a Wife
Act like Jung Won-ju
event2001 star_border 6.4
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A lonely Korean banker drags himself through the mundanity of his job and his vacuous social life in the hope that he will eventually find that special someone.
The Shameless
Act like Kim Hye-kyung
event2015 star_border 6.5
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A homicide detective tries to flush out a mob enforcer by befriending the suspect's beautiful girlfriend, but soon develops romantic feelings for her.
Memories of the Sword
Act like Sul-rang / Wol-so
event2015 star_border 6.6
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While in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But therefore she must face one of the most powerful men and warriors of the Goryeo Dynasty.
A Man and a Woman
Act like Sang-min
event2016 star_border 6.8
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Two strangers have dropped their kids off at a pickup area for a children's camp in Helsinki, Finland. A spark of mutual interest is ignited between the man and woman.
Good News
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Set in the 1970s, a group of people gathered to land a hijacked airplane at all costs devise a suspicious plan.
The Nest
Act like Ji-soo
event2017 star_border 5
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A boy adopted by a married couple who lives with her cute daughter comes. The boy's unpleasant behavior continues, and the woman who wants a happy family gradually falls into a nightmare.
Birthday
Act like Soon-nam
event2019 star_border 8.1
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Returning from eight years abroad at work and in prison, Jeong-il struggles to reconnect with his wife and their young daughter, Ye-sol, whom he barely knows.
Beasts Clawing at Straws
Act like Yeon-hee
event2020 star_border 7.1
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A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.
Ashfall
Act like Sun Hwa
event2019 star_border 6.8
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A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
Emergency Declaration
Act like Kim Sook-hee
event2022 star_border 7.5
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While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
Kill Boksoon
Act like Gil Bok-soon
event2023 star_border 6.8
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At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.
Mantis
Act like Gil Bok-soon
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Mantis, an ace assassin and a former colleague of Gil Boksoon, returns to a collapsed-order hired killer industry after his vacation. Upon reentering this anarchic world, Mantis encounters Jae-yi, his fellow trainee and rival, and Dok-go, a retired legendary killer, and realizes they are all vying for the top spot among the killers. A spin-off film of Kill Boksoon (2023).
Lost
Act like Bu-jeong (16 ep.)
event2021 star_border 8.5
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A forty year old woman who feels like she has not accomplished anything in life and a twenty-seven year old man who's frightened of himself.
You Quiz On The Block
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 7.7
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Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show.
The Game Caterers
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event2021 star_border 8.8
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A webseries where Na Young Seok, a variety show producer, caters people his iconic games from 'New Journey to the West'.
Shooting the Star
Act like So-ra (16 ep.)
event2002 star_border 6
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A fresh romance between a talent manager and an actor with dyslexia unfolds, inspiring strength and courage.
Lovers in Prague
Act like Yoon Jae-hee (18 ep.)
event2005 star_border 6.5
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Jae Hee, a diplomat in Prague, who is getting over a break-up, meets police detective Sang Hyun and romance blossoms. Jae Hee is the daughter of the Korean President and has to maintain a low profile. Jae Hee's ex, Young Woo and Sang Hyun's ex, Hye Joo make things complicated with secrets surrounding them. With the differences in social status, Jae Hee and Sang Hyun have to fight to see if the love that started in Prague can be overcome from what is trying to keep them apart.
On Air
Act like herself (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 7
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The lives and love stories of drama producers, writers, actors, and managers.
The Good Wife
Act like Kim Hye-kyung (16 ep.)
event2016 star_border 6.1
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A husband works as a successful prosecutor and his future appears bright, but he gets arrested for corruption in a political scandal. His wife worked as an attorney prior to their marriage, now resumes her career after a 13 year hiatus. She begins to find her true identity. An adaptation of the American TV series aired on CBS of the same title.
Love Story
(2 ep.)
event1999 star_border 6
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The drama describes 8 different love stories. Story 1 (Ep. 1-2) : Sunflower - love story about a stalker.
Story 2 (Ep. 3-4): Message - love story by a mobile phone and other communication facilities.
Story 3 (Ep. 5-6): Lost Bagage - Sad memory makes her lose her future love.
Story 4 (Ep. 7-8): Open Ended - A woman who is dying from an illness meets a young guy.
Story 5 (Ep. 9-10): Rose - love story between a detective and a criminal.
Story 6 (Ep. 11-12): Miss Hip-hop and Mr. Rock - A man and a woman who are mentally different fall in love.
Story 7 (Ep. 13-14): Insomnia, Manual and Orange Juice - A woman who acts manually falls in love with a comic book creator.
Story 8 (Ep. 15-16): Host of Memory - A woman who receives donated a heart instantly flashes a man's face.
Star in My Heart
Act like Soon-ae (16 ep.)
event1997 star_border 9
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Star In My Heart was a 1997 Korean drama series run on MBC. One of the earlier Korean dramas to air outside of Korea, as part of what became known as the Korean Wave, it was very popular and helped its cast become widely recognized.
Crash Course in Romance
Act like Nam Haeng-seon (16 ep.)
event2023 star_border 8.2
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The series follows the bittersweet relationship between a banchan shop owner whose daughter enters the war of Korea's college entrance exams, and a top hagwon instructor.
Star in My Heart
Act like Sun-ae (1 ep.)
event1997
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Orphan Lee Yun-hee (Choi Jin-sil) is adopted into a hostile family environment. She harbors an undiscovered artistic talent, which helps to catapult her into the lives of two men. She was taken to her father's friend family, after her father died, although while his father's friend had warm feeling towards her she was met with hostility from her new stepmother (Park Won-sook) and her stepsister Ahn Yi-hwa (Jo Mi-ryung), who throughout the series are intriguing with against her.
Until We Fall in Love
(231 ep.)
event1996 star_border 10
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A drama about a woman in her 20s who is attracting family members from large families who are scattered like sand grains. After the death of her husband, who was a lawyer, she ran a glasses company and raised her four brothers and sisters.
Live Talk Show Taxi
(4 ep.)
event2007
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Live Talk Show TAXI or TAX) is a 2014 South Korean talk show presented by Lee Young-Ja and Oh Man-Suk. It airs on tvN on Tuesdays at 24:20 (KST)
The Price Of Confession
Act like Ahn Yoon-soo (1 ep.)
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The bloody chronicle of two women surrounding a murder case.
Movie Room
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event2018 star_border 8.4
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Movie meets humanities! This talk show/variety show for movie enthusiasts features interesting discussions by a writer and two movie directors where film and humanities intertwine.
Just an Excuse
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 9.3
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Yoo Jae-suk Welfare Content 🐓Pinggyego (Just an Excuse)🐓
It is a content where Yoo Jae-suk freely chats with his favorite friends for various excuses and provides small stories and laughter.
Modern Korea
Act like Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 10
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The documentary series were made to look back on Korea’s modern history. It tells stories of specific moments in time weaving together relevant video clips from news broadcasts, dramas, shows and other documentaries
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