Oh Young-soo

Oh Young-soo

Born: October 19, 1944
in Kaepung County, Gyeonggi, Empire of Japan [now Kaepung District, Kaesong, North Korea]
O Yeong-su (Korean: 오영수; born O Se-kang, October 19, 1944) is a South Korean actor. In 2021, he portrayed Oh Il-nam in the Netflix survival drama Squid Game, which gave rise to his worldwide popularity and won him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film, as well as a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Movies for Oh Young-soo...

Title: Squid Game
Character: Oh Il-nam / 'No. 001'
Released: September 17, 2021
Type: TV
Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.
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Title: How Do You Play?
Character: Self
Released: July 27, 2019
Type: TV
Yoo Jae-suk reunites the producing team of Infinite Challenge and presents you How Do You Play? The Indefinitely expanding YOONIVERSE, based on Yoo's blood, sweat, and tears, will entertain viewers at home. Let's follow Yoo and his friends' new projects every week.
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Title: God of War
Character: Soo-gi
Released: February 11, 2012
Type: TV
Kim Jun is the son of an escaped palace slave, who gets raised by monks. Years later, after being torn from his home during wartime, Kim Jun must renounce hispacifist ways to partake in a deadly game that could be his ticket to freedom from his masters, Choe Chung-heon's clan. During the Mongol invasions of Korea, Kim Jun rises in the ranks to become the top military official, and eventually rules the Goryeo empire for 60 years in place of its king.
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Title: The Great Queen Seondeok
Character: Monk
Released: May 25, 2009
Type: TV
The life story of Queen Seondeok, the first queen of the Korean people during the Silla Dynasty.
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Title: The Return of Iljimae
Character: Yeol-gong
Released: January 21, 2009
Type: TV
The Return of Iljimae is a 2009 South Korean historical action television series, starring Jung Il-woo in the title role of Iljimae, Yoon Jin-seo, Kim Min-jong and Jung Hye-young. It aired on MBC from January 21 to April 9, 2009 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 24 episodes. The series is based on comic strip Iljimae, published between 1975 and 1977, by Ko Woo-yung which was based on a Chinese folklore from the Ming dynasty about a masked Robin Hood-esque character during the Joseon era. MBC bought the rights to the comic strip for their adaptation, which was to star Lee Seung-gi in the title role of Iljimae. However he pulled out and was replaced by Jung, which makes him the third Korean actor to play the hero following Jang Dong-gun and Lee Joon-gi for Iljimae.
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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Title: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Character: Old Monk
Released: September 19, 2003
Type: Movie
An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.
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A Little Monk
Title: A Little Monk
Character: Temple Master
Released: April 11, 2003
Type: Movie
A nine-year old monk, Do-nyum, has lived most of his lonely life in a quiet mountain monastery under his elderly master. Though put under a strict regimen of Buddhist teachings, meditation and chores, the child cannot help but to think of his mother, whom he cannot remember but misses dearly and hopes to be reunited with one day. He also wishes that he could be like the other children who live nearby and play games and attend school. Do-nyum's other companion is an older monk named Jung-sim, who is also struggling with staying on the path of enlightenment. The temple's groundskeeper keeps reassuring Do-Nyum that his mother will come back someday. But Do-nyum, sick of waiting for a mother who may never return, agrees to be adopted by the monastery's benefactor, a wealthy widow who visits the temple every year to mourn her late son.
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The Soul Guardians
Title: The Soul Guardians
Character: Priest
Released: August 15, 1998
Type: Movie
When the police raid the compound of a religious cult, they discover that almost all of the members have committed suicide. The only survivor, laying on an altar in the middle of the room, is a very pregnant woman who goes into labor as the raid begins. The woman dies in the hospital, but her child survives. 20 years later, strange things are starting to happen around the child, now a grown woman. A group of religious warriors from a mix of faiths join together to try and protect her from whatever supernatural horrors are seeking her out.
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Women Don't Fear the Night
Title: Women Don't Fear the Night
Released: October 15, 1983
Type: Movie
A thief discovers a poor student who resembles a rich man's son and coerces him to join his plan to steal a large sum of money.