Son Ye-jin

This is a Korean name; the family name is Son.
Son Ye-jin

Son Ye-jin in July 2014
Born Son Yeon-jin
(1982-01-11) January 11, 1982
Daegu, South Korea
Nationality South Korean
Occupation Actress
Years active 2000–present
Agent MSTeam Entertainment
Religion Roman Catholicism
Korean name
Hangul 손예진
Hanja 孫藝珍
Revised Romanization Son Ye-jin
McCune–Reischauer Son Yejin
Birth name
Hangul 손언진
Hanja 孫彦眞
Revised Romanization Son Yeon-jin
McCune–Reischauer Son Ŏnjin

Son Ye-jin (born Son Yeon-jin on January 11, 1982) is a South Korean actress. She rose to fame in romance-themed films and television series such as The Classic (2003), Summer Scent (2003), A Moment to Remember (2004), and April Snow (2005), but has won acting recognition for her versatility in diverse genres, notably in Alone in Love (2006) and My Wife Got Married (2008).[1]

Career

Son Ye-jin has taken on a variety of roles in her career to date, propelling her to fame both in Korea and in other Asian countries. She first appeared in a supporting role in Park Ki-hyung's film Secret Tears in 2000, and then went on to take the lead in TV dramas such as Delicious Proposal, Sun-hee and Jin-hee, and Great Ambition. Her first high-profile role in cinema was in Im Kwon-taek's Chi-hwa-seon, which screened at Cannes and took home a Best Director award in 2002.[2]

The biggest success of her early career was in the subsequent films Lovers' Concerto and The Classic. Both were solid mid-level hits in Korea, and The Classic in particular — being a work of My Sassy Girl director Kwak Jae-yong — received wide exposure in countries such as Hong Kong and China.[2]

Son further solidified her status as a Hallyu (Korean Wave) star in 2003 by taking the lead in TV drama Summer Scent, a part of the hugely successful series of TV dramas including Autumn in My Heart and Winter Sonata (though this drama would not attract the attention of the previous two). Her next two films also proved to be huge hits in Asia: A Moment to Remember, based on a famous Japanese series, set box office records in Japan and sold over two million tickets in Korea,[3][4] while April Snow in which she co-starred with superstar Bae Yong-joon[5] was also a smash hit in Japan and China (though not, incidentally, in Korea).[2][6]

Son then cast off her nice girl image in her next projects.[2] She took on the roles of a con artist in The Art of Seduction, an ambitious reporter in Spotlight,[7][8] a femme fatale in Open City,[9][10] and a divorcée in the critically acclaimed series Alone in Love.[11][12] In 2008, her portrayal of a polyandrous woman in My Wife Got Married[13][14] bagged her Best Actress honors from the prestigious Blue Dragon Film Awards[15] and other local award-giving bodies.

After filming the dark mystery White Night,[16][17] Son wanted to do a more fun project, so she chose the romantic comedy series Personal Taste,[18][19][20][21][22][23] followed by the horror-romantic comedy film Spellbound.[24][25][26][27][28]

In 2012, Son starred in her first blockbuster The Tower, a remake of the 1974 Hollywood disaster film The Towering Inferno.[29][30][31][32] She returned to television in 2013 in the revenge drama Shark (also known as Don't Look Back: The Legend of Orpheus),[33][34][35] then headlined Blood and Ties, a thriller about a daughter who suspects that her father was involved in a kidnap-murder case.[36]

Son reunited with Shark costar Kim Nam-gil in the 2014 period adventure film The Pirates, for which she won Best Actress at the Grand Bell Awards.[37][38][39][40] Another upcoming onscreen reunion will be with My Wife Got Married costar Kim Joo-hyuk in Home Sweet Home, a 2015 political thriller.[41] Son next starred in the black comedy Bad Guys Always Die opposite Taiwanese actor Chen Bolin, a Chinese-Korean co-production that was filmed on Jeju Island.[42][43][44] She has also been cast as Princess Deokhye in the biopic The Last Princess, to be helmed by April Snow director Hur Jin-ho.[45]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role
2000 Secret Tears
2002 Chi-hwa-seon So-woon
Lover's Concerto Shim Soo-in/Gyung-hee
2003 The Classic Ji-hye/Joo-hee
Crazy First Love Ju Il-mae
2004 A Moment to Remember Su-jin
2005 April Snow Seo-young
The Art of Seduction Han Ji-won
2007 Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox Yobi (voice)
2008 Open City Baek Jang-mi
My Wife Got Married Joo In-ah
2009 White Night Yoo Mi-ho/Lee Ji-ah
2011 Spellbound Kang Yeo-ri
2012 The Tower Seo Yoon-hee
2013 Blood and Ties Jung Da-eun
2014 The Pirates Yeo-wol
2015 Bad Guys Always Die
Home Sweet Home Yeon-hong
2016 The Last Princess Princess Deokhye

Television drama

Year Title Role Network
2001 Delicious Proposal Jang Hee-ae MBC
Sun-hee and Jin-hee Shim Sun-hee MBC
2002 Great Ambition Choi Dong-hee SBS
2003 Summer Scent Shim Hye-won KBS2
2006 Alone in Love Yoo Eun-ho SBS
2008 Spotlight Seo Woo-jin MBC
2010 Personal Taste Park Kae-in MBC
2011 Secret Garden Herself (cameo, episode 20) SBS
2013 Shark Jo Hae-woo KBS2

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominated work Result
2001 MBC Drama Awards Best New Actress Delicious Proposal,
Sun-hee and Jin-hee		 Won
2002 22nd Korean Association of Film Critics Awards Best New Actress Lovers' Concerto Won
23rd Blue Dragon Film Awards Best New Actress Nominated
1st Korean Film Awards Best New Actress Nominated
2003 39th Baeksang Arts Awards Best New Actress (Film) The Classic Won
40th Grand Bell Awards Popularity Award Won
Best New Actress Won
24th Blue Dragon Film Awards Popular Star Award Won
2nd Korean Film Awards Best New Actress Nominated
KBS Drama Awards Excellence Award, Actress Summer Scent Nominated
2004 9th Moscow International Love Film Festival Best Couple with Jo Seung-woo The Classic Won
2005 26th Blue Dragon Film Awards Best Actress April Snow Nominated
2006 15th China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival Best Actress in a Foreign Film A Moment to Remember Won
51st Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Actress April Snow Won
4th Korea International Jewelry & Watch Fair Best Jewelry Lady N/A Won
SBS Drama Awards Top 10 Stars Alone in Love Won
Top Excellence Award, Actress Won
2007 2nd Asia Model Festival Awards Model Star Award N/A Won
43rd Baeksang Arts Awards Best Actress (TV) Alone in Love Won
Korea Fashion & Design Awards Fashion Icon Award N/A Won
2008 1st Style Icon Awards Style Icon - Actress N/A Won
Fun Fearless Female N/A Won
1st Korea Jewelry Awards Diamond Award N/A Won
25th Korea Best Dresser Awards Best Dressed - Female Movie Star N/A Won
29th Blue Dragon Film Awards Best Couple with Kim Joo-hyuk My Wife Got Married Won
Popular Star Award Won
Best Actress Won
4th University Film Festival of Korea Best Actress Won
7th Korean Film Awards Best Actress Nominated
2009 45th Baeksang Arts Awards Best Actress (Film) Won
2010 1st Seoul Arts & Culture Awards Grand Prize, Film Actor category White Night Won
46th Baeksang Arts Awards InStyle Award N/A Won
5th Asia-Pacific Producer's Network (APN) Awards Award for Figure in Asian Film N/A Won
31st Blue Dragon Film Awards Popular Star Award White Night Won
2012 48th Baeksang Arts Awards Best Actress (Film) Spellbound Nominated
2013 KBS Drama Awards Excellence Award, Actress in a Mid-length Drama Shark Nominated
Top Excellence Award, Actress Nominated
2014 18th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival[46] Producer's Choice Award N/A Won
51st Grand Bell Awards Best Actress The Pirates Won
35th Blue Dragon Film Awards Best Actress Blood and Ties Nominated
Actors' Night Awards[47] Korean Top Star The Pirates Won
2015 10th Max Movie Awards Best Actress Nominated
51st Baeksang Arts Awards Best Actress (Film) Nominated

References

  1. ↑ "10LINE: Actress Son Ye-jin". 10Asia. May 14, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Actors and Actresses of Korean Cinema: Son Ye-jin". Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
  3. ↑ "A Moment To Remember opens at #1 in Japan". Korean Film Council. October 25, 2005.
  4. ↑ "A Moment to Remember breaks Japanese record". Korean Film Council. December 14, 2005.
  5. ↑ "Son Ye-jin to Star Alongside Bae Yong-joon in New Film". Korean Film Council. Retrieved December 24, 2004.
  6. ↑ "Films Starring Sohn Ye-jin Attract 10 Mil. Viewers in Korea, Japan". KBS Global. December 28, 2005.
  7. ↑ "Spotlight Shows Lives of Reporters". The Korea Times. May 13, 2008.
  8. ↑ "Spotlight (writer Lee Ki-won, director Kim Do-hoon) premiered on May 14, 2008". MBC Global Media. July 2, 2008.
  9. ↑ "SON Ye-jin as a Criminal Kingpin". Korean Film Council. July 26, 2007.
  10. ↑ "SON Ye-jin and KIM Myeong-min tangle in Open City". Korean Film Council. January 14, 2008.
  11. ↑ "Alone in Love Review". Twitch Film. September 1, 2006.
  12. ↑ "Actress Son Ye-jin's Movie Picks". 10Asia. December 23, 2011.
  13. ↑ "SON Ye-jin puts a new spin on marriage". Korean Film Council. February 11, 2008.
  14. ↑ "Son Ye-jin: Envious of an independent life leading two men". Cine21 via Hancinema. May 15, 2008.
  15. ↑ "Sports Movie Wins Best Award". The Korea Times. December 21, 2008.
  16. ↑ "Son Ye-jin, Ko Soo to Bring Mystery Romance". The Korea Times. October 21, 2009.
  17. ↑ "Son Ye-jin: 'Ordinary Sinister Roles Lack Charm'". KBS Global. November 16, 2009.
  18. ↑ "Top Actresses Heading Toward Small Screen". The Korea Times. February 8, 2010.
  19. ↑ "Son Ye-jin says relieved Lee Min-ho "not young-looking" (1)". 10Asia. March 26, 2010.
  20. ↑ "Son Ye-jin says relieved Lee Min-ho "not young-looking" (2)". 10Asia. March 26, 2010.
  21. ↑ "On the set of MBC TV series Personal Taste". 10Asia. April 16, 2010.
  22. ↑ "Personal Taste will gain flavor, says Son Ye-jin - Part 1". 10Asia. April 16, 2010.
  23. ↑ "Personal Taste will gain flavor, says Son Ye-jin - Part 2". 10Asia. April 16, 2010.
  24. ↑ "Son Ye Jin Returns to the Big Screen With Rom Com". enewsWorld. October 24, 2011.
  25. ↑ "Sohn Ye Jin: 'I Do Not Like Similar Appearance'". KBS Global. November 28, 2011.
  26. ↑ "Son Ye-jin Eyeing Melodrama After Chilling Romance". The Chosun Ilbo. December 1, 2011.
  27. ↑ "Son Ye-jin casts her spell over new romantic comedy". Korea JoongAng Daily. December 2, 2011.
  28. ↑ "Sweet-faced at 30". The Straits Times. May 9, 2012.
  29. ↑ "Queen of romance returns in disaster flick". The Korea Herald. December 17, 2012.
  30. ↑ "Interview: Son Ye Jin Says She Loves Her 30s". enewsWorld. December 23, 2012.
  31. ↑ "Son Ye-jin a pillar of support in The Tower". Korea JoongAng Daily. December 27, 2012.
  32. ↑ "THE TOWER's SOL Kyung-gu & SON Ye-jin: Actors' Experience from the Desperate Survival Drama". Korean Film Council. December 21, 2012.
  33. ↑ "Son Ye-jin returns to the small screen". Korea JoongAng Daily. March 27, 2013.
  34. ↑ "Kim Nam-gil back to being bad". The Korea Herald. May 22, 2013.
  35. ↑ "Kim Nam-gil and Son Ye-jin Returning with Hot Romance and Cold Revenge". 10Asia. May 23, 2013.
  36. ↑ "'Emotional, skirmishing scenes exhausted us': Accomplice actors". The Korea Herald. September 27, 2013.
  37. ↑ "Period Adventure Film PIRATES Set Sail". Korean Film Council. August 5, 2013.
  38. ↑ "Pirate's life for Son Ye-jin". Korea JoongAng Daily. August 5, 2014.
  39. ↑ "Son Ye-jin Jumps into Action in Pirate-Themed Film". The Chosun Ilbo. August 9, 2014.
  40. ↑ "Roaring Currents Named This Year's Best Film". The Chosun Ilbo. November 24, 2014.
  41. ↑ "Son Ye-jin to lead in political thriller". Korea JoongAng Daily. August 19, 2014.
  42. ↑ "Son Ye-jin to star in Huayi's Bad Guys". Screen Daily. January 30, 2015.
  43. ↑ "Son Ye-jin to Star in Chinese Movie". The Chosun Ilbo. February 2, 2015.
  44. ↑ "Son Ye-jin tells all on why she is single". The Korea Times. December 3, 2015.
  45. ↑ "Son Ye-jin to star as Princess Deokhye". Film Business Asia. August 21, 2015.
  46. ↑ "Film festival kicks off in Bucheon". Korea.net. July 18, 2014.
  47. ↑ "Son Ye-jin says she is lucky as actress and will stay close to audience". Hancinema. December 19, 2014.

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