Lee You-young

Lee You-young

Born: December 8, 1989
in Seoul, South Korea
Lee You-young is a South Korean actress who has won numerous awards for her film roles. Born on December 8, 1989, she made her acting debut in the 2014 film “Late Spring,” for which she became the first Korean to win the Best Actress award at the 14th Milan International Film Festival and also received many other Best New Actress awards. She has since starred in other short films and films. In 2017, she made her small-screen debut in the television drama “Tunnel.” In December 2016, Lee was confirmed to be in a relationship with co-star Kim Joo-hyuk until his death on October 30, 2017 in a traffic collision. Best New Actress ("The Treacherous") - 2015 (36th) Blue Dragon Film Awards - November 26, 2015

Best New Actress ("Late Spring") - 2015 (52nd) Daejong Film Awards - November 20, 2015

Movies for Lee You-young...

Title: Dare to Love Me
Character: Kim Hong-do
Released: May 13, 2024
Type: TV
A full-fledged defense romantic comedy about Sin Yoon-bok, a pupil from Seongsan village with Confucianism in his bones, and Kim Hong-do, an aggressive modern woman who only knows how to go straight.
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Ms. Apocalypse
Title: Ms. Apocalypse
Character: Young-mi
Released: January 24, 2024
Type: Movie
A drama set in the winter of 1999 towards the end of the century and depicts the chaotic society ahead of the new Millenium.
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Title: Besties in Wonderland
Released: October 27, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Insider
Character: Oh Soo-yeon
Released: June 8, 2022
Type: TV
When a judicial apprentice goes behind bars while on an undercover job, he plays the hand he’s dealt to survive prison and get his payback.
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The Prayer
Title: The Prayer
Character: Gan Ho-joong / Yeon Jong-in
Released: November 25, 2021
Type: Movie
Yeon Jeong In is the legal guardian of her mother, who is lying unconscious in a hospital bed for the past ten years. She feels exhausted from all of it and only has a care giving robot to rely on for support. Meanwhile, the care giving robot, Ho Joong, is conflicted over whom to save.
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Perhaps Love
Title: Perhaps Love
Character: Jung-won
Released: November 17, 2021
Type: Movie
Kim Hyun is a best-selling author who has been experiencing a writer's block for seven years. He keeps an amicable relationship with his ex-wife Mi-ae, who is now dating his best friend and publisher, as they take care of their oversensitive teenage son. To get back on his feet with his career, he decides to work on a new novel with an aspiring writer, his student, Yoo-jin, only to get his life more complicated when Yoo-jin comes out as gay and confesses his love for him.
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Title: Dr. Brain
Character: Jung Jae-yi
Released: November 4, 2021
Type: TV
Brilliant brain scientist Sewon suffers a horrific personal tragedy. Desperate to uncover what happened to his family, he conducts "brain syncs" with the dead to access their memories for clues.
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Traces of Love
Title: Traces of Love
Character: Lee Joo Young
Released: December 17, 2020
Type: Movie
Ju Yeong is a woman who longs for her ex-boyfriend but doesn't want to accept it. As she ends a short-term relationship with a very obsessive co-worker, her ex-boyfriend suddenly shows up as a new hire that she has to train. However, as rumors spread about her troubled relationship with the two co-workers, she finally realizes it was all her shortcomings that made it this way.
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Diva
Title: Diva
Character: Soo-jin
Released: September 23, 2020
Type: Movie
Skill, beauty, personality, ‘Diving Diva’ Lee-young has it all. Not being able to be with her best friend Su-jin is the only thing that gets in her way. Just so she can help Su-jin out, she changes her event to synchronizing swimming. While pouring everything to Olympics selection practice, Su-jin and Lee-young are involved in a freak accident. Su-jin disappears without a trace, while Lee-young survives but loses her memory. Lee-young’s memory slowly comes back to her but remembers strange side of Su-jin. Her iron will begins to shake on the diving board.
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Title: SF8
Character: Ganhojoong / Yeon Jung-in
Released: August 14, 2020
Type: TV
SF8 revolves around people who dream of a perfect society, and it tackles the conflict between technology and human. It encapsulates a variety of topics such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robots, games, fantasy, horror elements, superpowers, disasters, and more.
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I Am Home
Title: I Am Home
Character: Eun-seo
Released: November 28, 2019
Type: Movie
Eun-seo struggles repeatedly to find her own place. Her father Jin-cheol lives alone in a house where his family has left. Eun-seo unexpectedly returns her childhood home to live with her father. There, she faces traces of her family she had forgotten.
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Title: The Lies Within
Character: Kim Seo-Hee
Released: October 12, 2019
Type: TV
Kim Seo-hui’s life is changed forever when her politician father dies in a car crash and her husband disappears – all in one day. She enters the world of politics and join hands with small-town detective Jo Tae-sik to uncover the truth when she finds out that the car crash might not have been an accident after all.
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Title: My Fellow Citizens
Character: Kim Mi-Young
Released: April 1, 2019
Type: TV
This drama tells the story of a con man, who gets involved with unexpected incidents, marries a police officer and somehow ends up running to become a member of the National Assembly.
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Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage
Title: Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage
Character: Yang Hee-sook
Released: March 20, 2019
Type: Movie
On the run from a dogged internal affairs agent, a corrupt cop reluctantly teams up with a defiant teen to unravel a conspiracy before it's too late.
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Nothing Or Everything
Title: Nothing Or Everything
Released: November 24, 2018
Type: Movie
In both the past and the present, two people walk deep into a mountain forest. For these two women born and raised in the city, there is no place more unfamiliar. It is a place where all kinds of living things are breathing.
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Grass
Title: Grass
Character: Soon-young
Released: October 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Areum sits in a small café, typing on her laptop. Around her, customers enact various dramas from their lives. Is she writing what she hears or is she hearing what's been written?
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The Soul-Mate
Title: The Soul-Mate
Character: Hyun-ji
Released: September 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Jang-soo is a judo instructor who is indifferent to everyone but his daughter. One day he realizes he can see Tae-jin, a ghost who used to be a devoted police officer. Tae-jin asks Jang-soo to help solve the case that took his life away from him.
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Title: Your Honor
Character: Song So-Eun
Released: July 25, 2018
Type: TV
Han Soo-Ho and Han Kang-Ho were born as identical twins, but they live totally different lives. Han Soo-Ho works as a judge and he is guided by principles. Han Kang-Ho's extensive criminal record contains 5 different arrests. One day, Han Soo-Ho suddenly disappears. Han Kang-Ho secretly takes his brother's place as a judge. Han Kang-Ho, who was once considered trash, becomes "Dear Judge" and highly respected.
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Herstory
Title: Herstory
Character: Sun-young
Released: June 27, 2018
Type: Movie
A true story of a six-year-long legal conflict of 10 comfort women and 13 attorneys against 200 Fukuoka supporters association.
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Title: You Drive Me Crazy
Character: Han Eun-Sung
Released: May 7, 2018
Type: TV
Love at first sight is such a wonderful idea. However, how many of us have experienced it in real life? The answer is "rarely". If anything, we have mostly seen those occurrences in dramas. Why bother making another drama where a man and a woman cross paths coincidentally and suddenly fall in love? Therefore, this drama plans to show the viewers something more relatable - love that blooms in our everyday lives. This drama shows how a familiar relationship turns into a fluttering relationship, how a friendship suddenly turns into love, and how a once dull life suddenly becomes blinding due to love. This drama is about a man and a woman who have nothing more to share thanks to their completely different personalities. However, they have no idea whom they are in love with. Gradually, they rediscover themselves and reach out for love one step at a time.
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Marionette
Title: Marionette
Character: Han Seo-rin
Released: November 26, 2017
Type: Movie
A mystery crime thriller about a man who calls himself Master and sends mysterious texts with images of young women that they don't remember taking. A teacher and a former detective become involved in the escalating series of crimes.
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Title: Tunnel
Character: Shin Jae-Yi
Released: March 25, 2017
Type: TV
A police detective from 1986 travels in time to the present to save his daughter.
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Yourself and Yours
Title: Yourself and Yours
Character: So Min-jung
Released: November 10, 2016
Type: Movie
While a South Korean man wanders the city in search of the woman he just broke up with, she successively meets and flirts with two men who claim to have met her before.
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Clocking Out
Title: Clocking Out
Character: Mae Goo
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Korea has been taken over by aliens, and three agents from two different timelines spearhead the war against them. An unknown monster strikes them! One day, a single scream in an urgent phone call was heard. A top-level national secret organization, aka BUG (Bureau of Unidentified Genes), ​​is dispatched to catch the unknown beast that appears in the city center. Veteran Jung Bong, principleist Hyo Chan, and passionate newcomer Ki Woong, the three Korea's top special agents are starting to counterattack!
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Title: Clocking Out
Character: Mae Goo
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: TV
A science fiction blockbuster in which special agents struggle with a weird species that has taken over Korea.
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Mr. Cowper
Title: Mr. Cowper
Character: Yin-ae
Released: June 30, 2016
Type: Movie
Yin-ae has lost patience with her boyfriend Min-gu now that her period is one week overdue. She is seized with the fear of pregnancy but Min-gu contends that there is no chance at all. When she tells him “There are sperms in that fluid which is emitted before man ejaculates,” he himself searches for that fluid in the web page of Wikipedia.
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Title: Men on a Mission
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 2015
Type: TV
Male celebs play make-believe as high schoolers, welcoming star transfer students every week and engaging in battles of witty humor and slapstick.
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Fatal Intuition
Title: Fatal Intuition
Character: Si-eun
Released: October 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Desperate for revenge, a young man enlists the aid of a medium to help him track down his sister's killer.
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The Treacherous
Title: The Treacherous
Character: Seol Jung-mae
Released: May 21, 2015
Type: Movie
The story of Joseon's tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and all court dealings, and a woman who seeks vengeance.
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The lunch date
Title: The lunch date
Character: Seo-yeon
Released: April 30, 2015
Type: Movie
Lunchtime, Seo-yeon came to the restaurant alone, She ordered naengmyeon, but it's a thousand won short.
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A Lonely bird
Title: A Lonely bird
Character: Jung-won
Released: April 30, 2015
Type: Movie
Tae won has been idle for years, living in his sis Jung won's house. Because of him, Jung won is difficult. Before her travel to Taiwan, she goes to a fortune-teller, asks what will happen to Tae won in the future. A fortune- teller says Tae won's born with 'Goransal', under the star of loneliness.
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Late Spring
Title: Late Spring
Character: Min-kyung
Released: November 20, 2014
Type: Movie
Set in the 1960's. Joo-goo is viewed as Korea's best sculptor, but he suffers from a disease which will slowly paralyze his body. He gives up interests in the arts and just spends his days meaninglessly. His wife, Jung-sook, tries to find a nude model for him, hoping the model might inspire him to sculpt again. One day, Jung-sook meets Min-gyung.
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a flowers does not wilt, but...
Title: a flowers does not wilt, but...
Character: Soo-young
Released: June 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Han-sung runs into his ex-girlfriend Soo-young after taking a year off from university. Unfortunately she has a new boyfriend Se-won, who is a director of a graduation film which Han-sung is supporting.
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Title: Baeksang Arts Awards
Character: Self
Released: April 26, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: KBS Drama Special
Released: May 15, 2010
Type: TV
Forget the existing one-act dramas! Short but impactive! KBS Drama Special presents high quality single episode dramas. Dramas are the broadcast content with the widest public appeal. KBS Drama Special will produce short dramas of far-reaching impact involving at times a serious social message, unique emotions or perspectives. It will stay abreast of modern viewership.
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Firefighters
Title: Firefighters
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie