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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1947-06-19 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Gaeseong, Gyeonggi, Korea

Youn Yuh-jung

Biography:

Youn Yuh-jung (born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. In a film and television career spanning nearly 40 years, Youn is best known for starring in Kim Ki-young's Woman of Fire (1971), Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), and Minari (2020) for which she gained international fame along with numerous awards from this performance, winning an award each from Critics Choice, SAG, BAFTA, and Academy Awards for her supporting performance.

Known For

Acting

2025

2024

Dog Days as Yuh-jung
Earl. as Self

2023

2022

Pachinko as Older Sunja

2021

Minari as Soonja
Youn Stay as Self

2020

Lucky Chan-sil as Grandmother

2019

Never Twice as Bok Mak-Rye
Modern Korea as Self (archive footage)

2018

2017

2016

Canola as Gye-choon
The Bacchus Lady as So-young
Dear My Friends as Oh Choong-nam

2015

Salut d'Amour as Geum-nim
Right Now, Wrong Then as Kang Deok-soo
Intimate Enemies as Yuh-jung
Sense8 as Min-Jung

2014

Hill of Freedom as Innkeeper
Wonderful Days as Jang So-sim

2013

The Queen’s Classroom as Yong Hyun-ja

2012

The Taste of Money as Baek Geum-ok
In Another Country as Park Sook
The King 2 Hearts as Bang Yang-seon (the Queen Mother)
My Husband Got a Family as Uhm Chung-ae

2011

Hindsight as Madame Kang
List as Mi-hye's Mother
Can You Hear My Heart? as Hwang Soon-geum

2010

The Housemaid as Byeong-sik
Ha Ha Ha as Moon-kyung's Mother
Home Sweet Home as Sung Eun-sook
Golden Fish as Cho Yoon-hee

2009

The Actresses as Youn Yuh-jung
The Road Home as Bam Soon-jung

2008

Worlds Within as Oh Min-suk
Chunja's Happy Events as Yang Boon-hee

2007

Hwang Jin Yi as Old Woman
The Person I Love as Yoon Min Ja [Aunt]
Daughters-in-Law as Seo Mi-soon

2006

The Old Garden as Hyun-woo's Mother
Maundy Thursday as Sister Monica
Pure in Heart as Myeong Hye

2005

A Farewell to Sorrow as Lee Yeon-sim

2004

Springtime as Mother
Ireland as Shi Yeon's Mother

2003

A Good Lawyer's Wife as Hong Byeong-han
진주목걸이 as Yoon Hae-Myung

2002

2001

사랑은 이런거야 as Lee Jung-Ja
Hotelier as Yoon Bong-sook

1999

Hur Jun as Sung In-cheol's wife
Did We Really Love? as Choi Hye-ja
KAIST as Professor

1997

1995

목욕탕집 남자들 as Roh Hye-young

1993

1992

1991

사랑이 뭐길래 as Han Sim-ae

1990

Be a Wicked Woman as Ms. Choi

1987

1985

Woman Requiem as Ms. Hong

1978

1973

1972

Insect Woman as Myung-ja

1971

Woman of Fire as Myeong-ja

1953

The Oscars as Self

Writing

2009

The Actresses as Co-Writer