Jeon Do-yeon

Jeon Do-yeon

Born: February 11, 1973
in Seoul, South Korea
Jeon Do-yeon (born February 11, 1973) is a highly-acclaimed South Korean actress who has won many awards including best actress at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. She is most famous for her extraordinary portrayal of a broken woman who has lost everything in Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine.

Movies for Jeon Do-yeon...

Kill Boksoon
Title: Kill Boksoon
Character: Gil Bok-soon
Released: February 17, 2023
Type: Movie
At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.
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Title: Crash Course in Romance
Character: Nam Haeng-seon
Released: January 14, 2023
Type: TV
A mother with a heart of gold navigates the cutthroat world of private education when her daughter tries to join a celebrity math instructor's class.
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Emergency Declaration
Title: Emergency Declaration
Character: Kim Sook-hee
Released: August 3, 2022
Type: Movie
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
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Heartbeat
Title: Heartbeat
Character: Cheol-yi's Mother
Released: April 30, 2022
Type: Movie
Caught up in anxiety, eight-year-old Chul in school tells his teacher that he is going to the bathroom but runs straight home.
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Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony
Title: Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony
Character: Self
Released: April 29, 2022
Type: Movie
A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, this documentary provides a thematic analysis of his films, most of which have been selected for and received awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Title: Lost
Character: Bu-jeong
Released: September 4, 2021
Type: TV
A forty year old woman who feels like she has not accomplished anything in life and a twenty-seven year old man who's frightened of himself.
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Hostage: Missing Celebrity
Title: Hostage: Missing Celebrity
Character: Self (cameo)
Released: August 18, 2021
Type: Movie
A box office star has to prove his action credentials in the real world when he's kidnapped and held for ransom.
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Title: The Game Caterers
Character: Self
Released: March 12, 2021
Type: TV
A webseries where Na Young Seok, a variety show producer, caters people his iconic games from 'New Journey to the West'.
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Beasts Clawing at Straws
Title: Beasts Clawing at Straws
Character: Yeon-hee
Released: February 19, 2020
Type: Movie
A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.
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Ashfall
Title: Ashfall
Character: Sun Hwa
Released: December 19, 2019
Type: Movie
A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
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Birthday
Title: Birthday
Character: Soon-nam
Released: April 3, 2019
Type: Movie
Returning from eight years abroad at work and in prison, Jeong-il struggles to reconnect with his wife and their young daughter, Ye-sol, whom he barely knows.
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Title: You Quiz On The Block
Character: Self
Released: August 29, 2018
Type: TV
Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show.
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Title: Movie Room
Character: Self
Released: May 4, 2018
Type: TV
Movie meets humanities! This talk show/variety show for movie enthusiasts features interesting discussions by a writer and two movie directors where film and humanities intertwine.
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The Nest
Title: The Nest
Character: Ji-soo
Released: November 19, 2017
Type: Movie
A boy adopted by a married couple who lives with her cute daughter comes. The boy's unpleasant behavior continues, and the woman who wants a happy family gradually falls into a nightmare.
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Title: The Good Wife
Character: Kim Hye-kyung
Released: July 8, 2016
Type: TV
A husband works as a successful prosecutor and his future appears bright, but he gets arrested for corruption in a political scandal. His wife worked as an attorney prior to their marriage, now resumes her career after a 13 year hiatus. She begins to find her true identity. An adaptation of the American TV series aired on CBS of the same title.
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A Man and a Woman
Title: A Man and a Woman
Character: Sang-min
Released: February 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Two strangers have dropped their kids off at a pickup area for a children's camp in Helsinki, Finland. A spark of mutual interest is ignited between the man and woman.
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Memories of the Sword
Title: Memories of the Sword
Character: Sul-rang / Wol-so
Released: August 13, 2015
Type: Movie
While in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But therefore she must face one of the most powerful men and warriors of the Goryeo Dynasty.
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The Shameless
Title: The Shameless
Character: Kim Hye-kyung
Released: May 15, 2015
Type: Movie
A homicide detective tries to flush out a mob enforcer by befriending the suspect's beautiful girlfriend, but soon develops romantic feelings for her.
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Way Back Home
Title: Way Back Home
Character: Song Jung-yeon
Released: December 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Jeong-yoon and Jong-bae own a car body repair shop together that gets in financial trouble. To help cover the losses and take care of her family, Jeong-yoon decides to smuggle thirty kilograms of cocaine.
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Title: Baeksang Arts Awards
Character: Self
Released: April 26, 2012
Type: TV
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Countdown
Title: Countdown
Character: Cha Ha-yeon
Released: September 29, 2011
Type: Movie
A cold-blooded debt collector who never fails to get what he wants meets the beautiful yet mysterious ex-impostor whose every word is nothing but a lie. She has the key to save his life but he discovers that she only puts him into a deeper trouble. Time is running out and he needs to get it done while his heart still beats.
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The Housemaid
Title: The Housemaid
Character: Eun-yi
Released: May 13, 2010
Type: Movie
Hae-ra and her husband, Hoon, hire Eun-yi to look after their daughter. When Hoon gets Eun-yi pregnant, Hae-ra tries to kill the child. Soon, Eun-yi decides to seek revenge for the betrayal.
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My Dear Enemy
Title: My Dear Enemy
Character: Hee-soo
Released: September 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Hee-soo is desperate for money and finds her ex-boyfriend who owes her money. He goes around to various ex-girlfriends to get cash and she trails along to make sure he does not cheat her.
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Title: On Air
Character: herself
Released: March 5, 2008
Type: TV
The lives and love stories of drama producers, writers, actors, and managers.
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Title: Live Talk Show Taxi
Released: September 8, 2007
Type: TV
Live Talk Show TAXI or TAX) is a 2014 South Korean talk show presented by Lee Young-Ja and Oh Man-Suk. It airs on tvN on Tuesdays at 24:20 (KST)
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Secret Sunshine
Title: Secret Sunshine
Character: Lee Shin-ae
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: Movie
Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
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Title: Lovers in Prague
Character: Yoon Jae-hee
Released: September 24, 2005
Type: TV
Jae Hee, a diplomat in Prague, who is getting over a break-up, meets police detective Sang Hyun and romance blossoms. Jae Hee is the daughter of the Korean President and has to maintain a low profile. Jae Hee's ex, Young Woo and Sang Hyun's ex, Hye Joo make things complicated with secrets surrounding them. With the differences in social status, Jae Hee and Sang Hyun have to fight to see if the love that started in Prague can be overcome from what is trying to keep them apart.
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You Are My Sunshine
Title: You Are My Sunshine
Character: Eun-ha
Released: September 23, 2005
Type: Movie
An old bachelor Seok-joong, who has no experience in dating, falls in love at first sight with a prostitute named Eun-ha. At first Eun-ha shows no interest in Seok-joong, but gradually she begins to be flattered by his devotion and eventually falls in love with him. They marry. However, one day, Eun-ha finds out that she is infected with HIV and decides to leave Seok-joong.
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My Mother the Mermaid
Title: My Mother the Mermaid
Character: Na-young / Young Yeon-soon
Released: June 30, 2004
Type: Movie
A young woman who has a problem in getting along with her mother is transported back in time and is delighted to discover that her mother had been a very different person back in her youth.
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Untold Scandal
Title: Untold Scandal
Character: Lady Jeong
Released: October 2, 2003
Type: Movie
In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.
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Title: Shooting the Star
Character: So-ra
Released: November 20, 2002
Type: TV
A fresh romance between a talent manager and an actor with dyslexia unfolds, inspiring strength and courage.
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No Blood No Tears
Title: No Blood No Tears
Character: Su-ji
Released: February 28, 2002
Type: Movie
Gyung-sun is a washed-up cab driver who has been trying to go straight after years in trouble with the law after being a big-time safecracker. Soo-jin wants to be a famous singer, but lives the life of a trophy girlfriend to her vicious gangster boyfriend. An unlikely situation cause these two different women to meet where they plan a daring solution to both their problems that will escalate and threaten the wrath of many powerful and corrupt people around them.
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I Wish I Had a Wife
Title: I Wish I Had a Wife
Character: Jung Won-ju
Released: January 13, 2001
Type: Movie
A lonely Korean banker drags himself through the mundanity of his job and his vacuous social life in the hope that he will eventually find that special someone.
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Happy End
Title: Happy End
Character: Choi Bo-ra
Released: December 11, 1999
Type: Movie
When a wife becomes the breadwinner of her family after her husband loses his job, adultery becomes part of her life.
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Title: Love Story
Released: December 1, 1999
Type: TV
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The Harmonium in My Memory
Title: The Harmonium in My Memory
Character: Yun Hong-yeon
Released: March 27, 1999
Type: Movie
Hong-yun is a high school girl in little mountain village when she falls head-over-heels for a handsome new school teacher, Mr. Kang. What with taking care of her youngest baby brother for her widowed mother and the impossible age difference, it is a roller-coaster ride for her as she tries to become someone special for Mr. Kang while he seems interested in the other new teacher at the school, Miss Yang.
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A Promise
Title: A Promise
Character: Chae Hee-ju
Released: November 14, 1998
Type: Movie
When she met him at the first time, he was a wounded person. However, she saw him through his clear eyes hidden in the bandage. She, Chae Hi-Ju, is a doctor and he, Kong Sang-Du, is a boss of a bandit. The pair seemed not to love each other in terms of their position, but they were closed to each other giving up their own world. However, he was not a common man...
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What You Cherish Can Never Be Forgotten
Title: What You Cherish Can Never Be Forgotten
Released: June 5, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: 달팽이
Character: Sun-ja
Released: October 8, 1997
Type: TV
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The Contact
Title: The Contact
Character: Lee Soo-hyun
Released: September 13, 1997
Type: Movie
The male radio presenter Dong-hyun and the female TV home shopping phone operator Soo-hyun are both lonely. While Dong-hyun is focused on getting back to his ex-girl-friend Young-hae who has sent him a special LP, Soo-hyun is crazy for her friend's boy-friend. Via Internet and music Soo-hyun and Dong-hyun get together in a special way.
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Title: Star in My Heart
Character: Sun-ae
Released: March 10, 1997
Type: TV
Orphan Lee Yun-hee (Choi Jin-sil) is adopted into a hostile family environment. She harbors an undiscovered artistic talent, which helps to catapult her into the lives of two men. She was taken to her father's friend family, after her father died, although while his father's friend had warm feeling towards her she was met with hostility from her new stepmother (Park Won-sook) and her stepsister Ahn Yi-hwa (Jo Mi-ryung), who throughout the series are intriguing with against her.
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Title: Star in My Heart
Character: Soon-ae
Released: March 10, 1997
Type: TV
Star In My Heart was a 1997 Korean drama series run on MBC. One of the earlier Korean dramas to air outside of Korea, as part of what became known as the Korean Wave, it was very popular and helped its cast become widely recognized.
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Title: Until We Fall in Love
Released: April 1, 1996
Type: TV
A drama about a woman in her 20s who is attracting family members from large families who are scattered like sand grains. After the death of her husband, who was a lawyer, she ran a glasses company and raised her four brothers and sisters.
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Title: 사랑은 블루
Character: Na Hye-jin
Released: February 8, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: 사랑의 향기
Released: April 9, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: The Price Of Confession
Character: Ahn Yoon-soo
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The bloody chronicle of two women surrounding a murder case.
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Revolver
Title: Revolver
Character: Ha Su-young
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Su-young, a police detective who went to prison for someone else, is surprised when a mysterious woman named Yoon-sun arrives to collect her on her day of release. As she discovers that the promised compensation for her time behind bars has vanished, Su-young embarks on a mission to reclaim what rightfully belongs to her.
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Darkest Miriam
Title: Darkest Miriam
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The fog of grief shrouding Miriam, a branch librarian, begins to lift when she starts a love affair with cab driver Janko. But what’s the deal with the vaguely threatening letters she keeps finding?