Lee Jung-jae
Lee Jung-jae (; born December 15, 1972) is a South Korean actor and filmmaker. Considered one of the most successful actors in South Korea, he has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, six Baeksang Arts Awards, in addition to nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Gotham Award. Aside from his acting career, Lee is also a businessman, having launched a chain of restaurants in Seoul, as well as founding several businesses including the development company Seorim C&D. He owns several of his businesses with fellow actor and close friend Jung Woo-sung.Born in Seoul, Lee debuted as a fashion model, then began his acting career on television, notably in the campus series ''Feelings'' (1994) and the drama ''Sandglass'' (1995). After his acting breakthrough in ''An Affair'' (1998), Lee's film career took off. He has starred in a variety of film genres, among them romantic films such as ''Il Mare'' (2000) and ''Over the Rainbow'' (2002), the Dogme 95 film ''Interview'' (2000), the melodrama ''Last Present'' (2001), well-known comedies such as ''Oh! Brothers'' (2003), action films ''The Last Witness'' (2001) and ''Typhoon'' (2005), heist film ''The Thieves'' (2012), crime thriller ''New World'' (2013), and period film ''The Face Reader'' (2013). He won Best Actor awards at the Blue Dragon Film Awards for ''City of the Rising Sun'' (1999), at the Fantasporto Director's Week for ''The Housemaid'' (2010), and at the Buil Film Awards for ''Assassination'' (2015).
In 2021, Lee gained widespread international stardom and fame for his role as Seong Gi-hun, the main protagonist of Netflix's survival drama ''Squid Game''. For his performance in the show's first season, he was nominated for numerous accolades, including the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama, the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series, making him the first male actor from Asia and Korea to receive individual nominations in those categories across all four awards shows with his win for the latter two also making history. In December 2021, he was selected as Gallup Korea's Film Actor of the Year. Lee is set to reprise his role as Gi-hun in the show's second season, which began filming in July 2023. Provided by Wikipedia
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9by Janet Yuen Ha Wong, Abraham Ka Chung Wai, Shengzhi Zhao, Faustina Yip, Jung Jae Lee, Carlos King Ho Wong, Man Ping Wang, Tai Hing LamGet full text
Published 2020-11-01
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13by Yeon Kyung Chi, Ji Won Han, Hyeon Jeong, Jae Young Park, Tae Hui Kim, Jung Jae Lee, Seok Bum Lee, Joon Hyuk Park, Jong Chul Yoon, Jeong Lan Kim, Seung-Ho Ryu, Jin Hyeong Jhoo, Dong Young Lee, Ki Woong KimGet full text
Published 2014-01-01
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14by Seul-Gee Lee, Seung-Jun Lee, Nguyen Viet Phuong Thuy, Jung-Sun Kim, Jung-Jae Lee, Oh-Hyun Lee, Choong-Ki Kim, Jaewon Oh, Seil Park, Ok-Hee Lee, Se Hoon Kim, Sungha Park, Sang-Hak Lee, Sung-Jin Hong, Chul-Min Ahn, Byeong-Keuk Kim, Young-Guk Ko, Donghoon Choi, Myeong-Ki Hong, Yangsoo JangGet full text
Published 2019-01-01
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15by Silvia Kyungjin Lho, Tae Hui Kim, Kyung Phil Kwak, Kayoung Kim, Bong Jo Kim, Shin Gyeom Kim, Jeong Lan Kim, Tae Hyun Kim, Seok Woo Moon, Jae Young Park, Joon Hyuk Park, Seonjeong Byun, Seung Wan Suh, Ji Young Seo, Yoonseop So, Seung-Ho Ryu, Jong Chul Youn, Kyoung Hwan Lee, Dong Young Lee, Dong Woo Lee, Seok Bum Lee, Jung Jae Lee, Ju Ri Lee, Hyeon Jeong, Hyun-Ghang Jeong, Jin Hyeong Jhoo, Kyuhee Han, Jong Woo Hong, Ji Won Han, Ki Woong KimGet full text
Published 2018-05-01
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16by Jong Bin Bae, Darren M. Lipnicki, Ji Won Han, Perminder S. Sachdev, Tae Hui Kim, Kyung Phil Kwak, Bong Jo Kim, Shin Gyeom Kim, Jeong Lan Kim, Seok Woo Moon, Joon Hyuk Park, Seung-Ho Ryu, Jong Chul Youn, Dong Young Lee, Dong Woo Lee, Seok Bum Lee, Jung Jae Lee, Jin Hyeong Jhoo, Juan J. Llibre-Rodriguez, Jorge J. Llibre-Guerra, Adolfo J. Valhuerdi-Cepero, Karen Ritchie, Marie-Laure Ancelin, Isabelle Carriere, Ingmar Skoog, Jenna Najar, Therese Rydberg Sterner, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Mary Yannakoulia, Efthimios Dardiotis, Kenichi Meguro, Mari Kasai, Kei Nakamura, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Susanne Roehr, Alexander Pabst, Martin van Boxtel, Sebastian Köhler, Ding Ding, Qianhua Zhao, Xiaoniu Liang, Marcia Scazufca, Antonio Lobo, Concepción De-la-Cámara, Elena Lobo, Ki Woong Kim, for Cohort Studies of Memory in an International Consortium (COSMIC)Get full text
Published 2020-08-01
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17by Patricia M Davidson, Fabio Efficace, Kathrin Sommer, Jung Jae Lee, Chia-Chin Lin, Mandy Ho, Vinciya Pandian, Emery Manirambona, Wenjie Duan, RIYAZ AHMED, Janet Y.H. Wong, Khalid M Alabdulwahhab, Mohammad Shakil Ahmad, Nagla Abdelrahim Mohamed Ahmed, Mohamed Alboraie, Meshari A Alzahrani, Anil Bilimale, Sawitree Boonpatcharanon, Samuel Byiringiro, Muhammad Kamil Che Hasan, Luisa Clausi, Walter Corzo, Faruk Adamu Dantsoho, Josephine M. De Leon, Anjanette S. De Leon, Hiba Deek, Mayssah A ElNayal, Eduardo Ensaldo-Carrasco, Pilar Escotorin, Oluwadamilola Agnes Fadodun, Israel Opeyemi Fawole, Yong-Shian Shawn Goh, Devi Irawan, Naimah Ebrahim Khan, Binu Koirala, Ashish Krishna, Cannas Kwok, Tung Thanh Le, Daniela Giambruno Leal, Miguel Ángel Lezana-Fernández, Leandro Cruz Mantoani, Omar Mbakeh, Fernando Meneses-González, Iman Elmahdi Mohamed, Madeleine Mukeshimana, Chinh Thi Minh Nguyen, Huong Thi Thanh Nguyen, Khanh Thi Nguyen, Son Truong Nguyen, Mohammad Said Nurumal, Bunmi Ogungbe, Akingbade Oluwadamilare, Angela CY Poon, Busayasachee Puang-Ngern, Areli Reséndiz-Rodriguez, Ceryl G Sagun, Nikhil Gauri Shankar, Edgardo Toro, Hanh Thi Hong Tran, Elvira L Urgel, Emmanuel Uwiringiyimana, Oscar Chavez Valdez, Tita Vanichbuncha, Naglaa YoussefGet full text
Published 2021-06-01
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