Youn Yuh-jung
Birthday: 1947-06-19 | Place of Birth: Gaeseong, Gyeonggi, KoreaYoun Yuh-jung (Korean: 윤여정; pronounced [junjʌdʑʌŋ]; born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. Youn gained attention on Korean television in the late 1960s and rose to prominence with the film Woman of Fire (1971). She retired in the mid-1970s after marrying and immigrating to the United States. However, she returned to acting in the late 1980s following her divorce. Known as the "Godmother of Chungmu-ro," Youn's notable films include The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), The Bacchus Lady (2016) and Canola (2016), as well as a series of matriarch roles in television dramas such as Men of the Bath House (1995), Be Strong, Geum-soon! (2005), Daughters-in-Law (2007), My Husband Got a Family (2012) and Dear My Friends (2016). She gained international recognition for her role in Minari (2020), becoming the first Korean actress to win a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Independent Spirit Award, a British Academy Film Award, and an Academy Award, all for Best Supporting Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Youn Yuh-jung, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Ja-Young
as Self
as Yuh-jung
as Older Sunja
as Self
as Ms. Choi
as Ms. Yoon
as Self
as Soonja
as Grandmother
as Soon-ja
as Bok Mak-Rye
as In-sook
as Self
as Soon-shim
as Gye-choon
as Kang Deoksoo
as Oh Choong-nam
as So-young
as Geum-nim
as Yeo-jung
as Innkeeper
as Jang So-sim
as Mother
as Self
as Self
as Yong Hyun-ja
as Baek Geum-ok
as Bang Yang-seon (the Queen Mother)
as Uhm Chung-ae
