Nam Ji-hyun

Nam Ji-hyun

Born: September 17, 1995
in Incheon, South Korea
Nam Ji-hyun (born September 17, 1995) is a South Korean actress who successfully transitioned from being one of the industry's premier child artists to an acclaimed lead, well-loved for her roles in Queen Seondeok, Shopping King Louis, Suspicious Partner, and 100 Days My Prince.

Nam began her career as a child actress, and is best known for her roles in East of Eden (2008), Queen Seondeok (2009), Will It Snow for Christmas? (2009), Angel Eyes (2014), and What Happens to My Family? (2014). She also appeared in the miniseries Girl Detective, Park Hae-sol, teen drama To the Beautiful You, and the films A Reason to Live and Hwayi: A Monster Boy.

In 2016, she headlined her first drama, MBC's romantic-comedy Shopaholic Louis with Seo In-guk, where she impressed viewers with her acting.

In 2017, she starred in SBS's legal drama Suspicious Partner alongside Ji Chang-wook. The show enjoyed modest viewership share, but it beat its competitor by topping the important 20-49-year-old demographic, as well as streaming, popularity, and brand reputation charts for consecutive weeks. In 2018, Nam starred alongside EXO's D.O in the historical romance drama 100 Days My Prince. The series was a commercial success, becoming the fifth highest-rated Korean drama in cable television history. In 2020, Nam starred in the fantasy mystery thriller 365: Repeat the Year as a perfectionist webtoon writer.

Movies for Nam Ji-hyun...

Title: High Cookie
Character: Choi Soo-young
Released: October 23, 2023
Type: TV
With just one bite, a mysterious homemade cookie turns dreams into reality, but it takes over the elite high school, and deadly consequences await.
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Title: Little Women
Character: Oh In-kyung
Released: September 3, 2022
Type: TV
Three sisters, who only have each other and never enough money, get entangled in a conspiracy involving the rich and powerful.
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Title: Street Woman Fighter
Released: August 24, 2021
Type: TV
The fierce women armed with stunning street dance take over the stage this summer. The unceasing battles between the real dancers will make you hold your breath. They boast their unique dance styles, skilled performance, and a highly competitive spirit. Eight dance crews get together on the fight stage and compete in the battles. In the fight zone, which crew will be the final winner to take the championship?
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Title: The Witch's Diner
Character: Jeong Jin
Released: July 16, 2021
Type: TV
Hee-ra is the owner of the Witch's Diner where employee Jin and intern Gil-yong work with her. Guests are welcome to the Witch's Diner where they sell their souls for their wishes to come true.
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Title: Off The Course
Character: Kang Soo Ji
Released: March 15, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: Sixth Sense
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 2020
Type: TV
Korea’s top stars have gathered to really use their sixth sense. Each week they will encounter the hottest places or people and have to distinguish one fake set-up. The production crew uses all of their resources and effort to create the most perfect-looking fake set-up. The member who makes the correct decision of finding the fake set-up will be awarded with a great prize. The member who makes the wrong decision will face a punishment.
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Title: 365: Repeat the Year
Character: Shin Ga Hyun
Released: March 23, 2020
Type: TV
A story where ten people get the chance to go back in time by one year, but unexpectedly mysterious situations start to arise when their fates are changed and twisted in the process. Ji Hyung Joo is a detective in the violent crimes division. He used to be part of the traffic police but was promoted when he arrested a wanted criminal. It's been seven years since the change, and he's a talented individual who always knows how to relax. Though he is happy at first to have the chance to go back in time by one year and "reset" his life, he begins to search for the truth when a series of mysterious events befall on the group of people he goes back in time with. Based on the Japanese novel, "Repeat"
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Title: Dear My Room
Character: Bride
Released: November 6, 2018
Type: TV
The tale of Shim Eun Joo, a self-employed woman who is trying to redefine her life after winning a big project as an editorial designer and subsequently struggling on her own.
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Title: 100 Days My Prince
Character: Hong-sim / Yoon Yi-seo
Released: September 10, 2018
Type: TV
Lee Yool falls off a cliff and nearly dies in an attempted assassination. He loses his memory, and wanders for 100 days under a new name and personality. During this period, he meets Hong Sim, head of the first detective agency in Joseon.
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Title: Suspicious Partner
Character: Eun Bong-Hee
Released: May 10, 2017
Type: TV
Noh Ji Wook is a prosecutor in the Central District Prosecutors’ Office who ends up switching professions to a private attorney. He harbors a trauma stemming from an event in his childhood involving his parents and his first love. Eun Bong Hee, a Taekwondo athlete in her youth, is a prosecutor trainee who has become a murder suspect. Eun Bong Hee and Noh Ji Wook both find themselves being the focus of a killer.
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Title: Shopaholic Louis
Character: Ko Bok-Shil
Released: September 21, 2016
Type: TV
A romance takes place between Kang Ji-Sung aka Louie and Ko Bok-Sil. Louie is from a rich family, but he has lost his memory. Ko Bok-Sil is a woman with a heart like an angel. Louie learns about true love after meeting Ko Bok-Sil.
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The Map Against The World
Title: The Map Against The World
Character: Soon-sil
Released: September 7, 2016
Type: Movie
Kim Jeong-ho's father died due to an erroneous map. Because of this, Kim Jeong-ho has a strong desire to make his own map. He begins a complete block map of Joseon.
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Tunnel
Title: Tunnel
Character: Mi-Na
Released: August 10, 2016
Type: Movie
A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped leaving himself for the unexpected whilst emergency services struggle to help.
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Title: 미스터리 신입생
Character: Oh Ah-young
Released: January 29, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Late Night Restaurant
Character: Hye-ri
Released: July 4, 2015
Type: TV
A restaurant opens at midnight until seven in the morning. Its mysterious owner and chef, simply called the "Master," has no fixed items on his menu, but will take orders from any customer and cook up whatever they ask for. As the Master cooks, his customers tell him their life stories. Korean adaptation of the original Japanese drama.
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Title: What Happens to My Family?
Character: Kang Seo-Wool
Released: August 16, 2014
Type: TV
Every family has its issues but what happens when the patriarch in the family is not happy with the behaviors of his children? Cha Bong Soon does not intend to just sit back and take bad treatment from his three adult children – Cha Kang Shim, Cha Kang Jae and Cha Dal Bong – and decides to take legal action against them. With such chaos going on in her family, Kang Shim has a tough time focusing on her job as secretary to the president of Daeoh Company and constantly at odds with the president's son, Moon Tae Joo, the company director. Will Tae Joo get sucked into the Cha family drama as well?
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Title: Angel Eyes
Character: Young Yoon Soo-wan
Released: April 5, 2014
Type: TV
Yoon Soo-wan and Park Dong-joo were each other's first loves, but were forced to separate due to painful family circumstances. Soo-wan, who had been blind, eventually undergoes an eye transplant surgery that restores her sight.
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Hwayi: A Monster Boy
Title: Hwayi: A Monster Boy
Character: Yoo-kyung
Released: October 9, 2013
Type: Movie
After being kidnapped as a small child and raised by the five men who abducted him, a teenage boy is now forced to join their life in crime.
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Title: To the Beautiful You
Character: Hong Da-hae
Released: August 15, 2012
Type: TV
Goo Jae-hee lives in the United States and one day sees a track and field competition on TV, and becomes attracted to one of the high jump competitors, Kang Tae-joon. She begins to idolize the young athlete and eventually transfers to Korea to attend the same school that Tae-joon attends after he suffers an accident that could potentially end his career. There is a catch, however: Tae-joon attends an all-boys high school and Jae-hee must disguise herself as a boy to enter.
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Title: Can't Live Without You
Character: Eun Deok
Released: May 28, 2012
Type: TV
A family drama that conveys the touching heart-warming story of the conflicts and difficulties a group of adults face as they try take care of their mother who is suffering from Alzheimer.
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Title: Little Girl Detective
Released: February 12, 2012
Type: TV
This drama special is about a passionate policeman Choi Tae Pyung and an ill-tempered genius girl Park Hae Sol who reveals the truth of her father’s death.
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Title: Little Girl Detective
Released: February 12, 2012
Type: TV
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A Reason to Live
Title: A Reason to Live
Character: Ji-min
Released: October 27, 2011
Type: Movie
A female producer loses her fiancée in a hit and run accident and stands in the line of conflict.
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Title: Warrior Baek Dong Soo
Character: Yoo Ji-sun (young)
Released: July 4, 2011
Type: TV
Warrior Baek Dong-soo is a 2011 South Korean fusion historical/action television series starring Ji Chang-wook, Yoo Seung-ho, Yoon So-yi, Shin Hyun-bin, Choi Min-soo and Jun Kwang-ryul. It aired on SBS from July 4 to October 10, 2011 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 29 episodes. Based on the 2010 comic Honorable Baek Dong-soo by Lee Jae-heon, the series is about how Joseon historical figure Baek Dong-soo grew to become a swordsman and folk hero. Baek was one of the three authors of Muyedobotongji, a pivotal martial arts work commissioned by King Jeongjo. Set against the backdrop of political maneuverings in Joseon between different factions, namely those led by King Jeongjo, by the Qing ambassador, by the Japanese swordsman Kenzo, and the assassin's guild Heuksa Chorong, at its core the series is a coming-of-age drama about brotherhood, friendship, loyalty and honor.
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Title: 나야, 할머니
Character: Eun Ha
Released: September 26, 2010
Type: TV
It is a heartwarming love story of a grandmother who is about to die of cancer and Eunha, a middle school student who grew up with an aunt without parents, and becomes a true family.
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Title: Running Man
Character: Self
Released: July 11, 2010
Type: TV
A reality and competition show where members are joined by celebs to complete a weekly mission to win the race with Seoul as the beautiful backdrop.
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Be with Me
Title: Be with Me
Character: Student
Released: June 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Seo-hee, Nam-hee and Lan. These three girls happen to read their tarot cards. Tarot cards tell them once-in-a-life-time opportunities will be coming to each of them simply by holding tarot cards and chanting magic spells. And the magic spells are nothing but their own names! Once their names are said, very special events begin to unfold.
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Title: Giant
Character: young Hwang Jung-yeon
Released: May 10, 2010
Type: TV
Giant is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Lee Beom-soo, Park Jin-hee, Joo Sang-wook, Hwang Jung-eum, Park Sang-min, and Jeong Bo-seok. It aired on SBS from May 10 to December 7, 2010 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 60 episodes. Giant is a sprawling period drama about three siblings' quest for revenge during the economic boom of 1970-80s Korea. Tragically separated during childhood, the three reunite as adults and set out to avenge their parents' deaths, their fates playing out against a larger tide of power, money, politics, and the growth of a city.
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Happy Ulleung Man
Title: Happy Ulleung Man
Character: Narrator
Released: February 25, 2010
Type: Movie
The film follows a 74-year-old resident with mental disability on the small island of Ulleung-do. He has been living there all his life, while working hard to achieve his lifelong dream, to buy a small house and get married to a loving woman.
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Title: Will It Snow For Christmas?
Character: Han Ji-wan (young)
Released: December 2, 2009
Type: TV
Cha Kang Jin grows up in a poor family who is constantly on the move. After relocating to his mother's hometown when Kang Jin is a teenager, his mother falls back into her old ways, opening a bar that draws a group of undesirable men. Kang Jin is forced to watch helplessly from the sidelines, getting into fights with other high school students to protect her honor. When he meets Han Ji Wan at school, sparks fly immediately, but tragedy soon strikes when Ji Wan suddenly must leave town. Eight years later, Kang Jin finally finds her again—at her engagement party. Never able to forget the girl he loved and hurt so badly, Kang Jin has trouble accepting the loss of his love, and after discovering that Ji Wan's fiancée is his co-worker, the three soon become hopelessly entangled in each other's lives.
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If You Were Me 4
Title: If You Were Me 4
Character: Park Jin-ju (Blue Bird on the Desk)
Released: July 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Includes shorts: Girl on the Run, The Theory & Practice of Teenage Dream, Relay, U and Me and Blue Birds on the Desk.
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Title: The Great Queen Seondeok
Character: young Princess Deokman
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: East of Eden
Character: Kim Ji-hyun (10 years old)
Released: August 26, 2008
Type: TV
The fate of two brothers diverge after the murder of their coal miner father, with one joining the mob and the other becoming a successful lawyer.
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Title: 우리들의 해피엔딩
Character: Kang Mi-Na
Released: May 7, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: King Sejong the Great
Character: young Princess Shim
Released: January 5, 2008
Type: TV
"The Great King, Sejong" is a full-scale political drama describing how King Sejong and his loyal retainers cooperate and contrive to make his dynasty a better place. While King Sejong was on the throne, the Joseon Dynasty enjoyed increasing prosperity. The drama shows the dramatic processes of how so many new cultural heritages have been devised. At that time, "Hangul", the native phonemic alphabet system for Korean language was first invented and introduced. Before it was made, Chinese characters had been used for a written communication, which makes it extremely difficult for ordinary people to learn and use. "Hangul" is easy to learn for its simple and scientific principles. Other than "Hangul" itself, there had been so many cultural heritages during his regime including a rain gauge, a sundial, an hourglass to name a few. Also, King Sejong’s pragmatic diplomacy is concentrated in the drama. Then, the Joseon Dynasty was facing a powerful Ming dynasty of China, and King Sejong demonstrates the essence of pragmatism with dignity.
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Title: Lobbyist
Character: young Yoo So-young (Maria)
Released: October 10, 2007
Type: TV
Lobbyist is a 2007 South Korean television series produced by Korea Pictures International, Inc. that aired on SBS. Budgeted at ₩12 million, overseas filming locations included the United States and Kyrgyzstan. It starred Song Il-gook, Han Jae-suk and Jang Jin-young.
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Mapado 2: Back to the Island
Title: Mapado 2: Back to the Island
Character: Girl in the past
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Detective Chung-su takes a secret mission from a dying president of a big company. The businessman wants to see his first love before he dies.The only information the detective has is that her name is Kkotnim and she now lives on an island called Tongbaek, off one of the country's southern ports. He rides on a private boat to the island with an anonymous passenger, dreaming of the big bucks he will get when he completes his mission.But the boat is wrecked in a fierce storm, and Chung-su and the passenger find themselves lying on the shore of a strange island. In the struggle to escape from the island, Chung-su meets up with five grandmothers who will not let him or the other men escape. During his captivity, he investigates if one of the grandmothers is indeed the love interest. Will he find out and escape from the island alive?
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Title: My Love
Character: Kim Min
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: TV
Jang Mi-ran has been widowed for the last 5 years after her husband died in an accident. She has four kids and is busy all day running a household. Fortunately, her husband's company, Saewang Constructions offered her a part-time job out of special consideration to her plight, so she was able to support her family.
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My Captain Mr. Underground
Title: My Captain Mr. Underground
Character: Park Ji-min
Released: April 20, 2006
Type: Movie
A notorious grave robber Dae-chool, recently stole a precious Buddha statue. However, two kids Ji-min and Byung-oh steal it from him for fun. Dae-Chool tricks the kids telling them that he is a special agent from the Ministry of National Treasures, and persuades the kids to help him "in the cause of justice". As they experience one mishap after another, the kids and Dae-chool form a family-like relationship.
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Shadowless Sword
Title: Shadowless Sword
Character: young Yeon So-ha
Released: November 18, 2005
Type: Movie
927 AD. The Killer-Blade Army has toppled the ruling dynasty, plunging the kingdom into chaos. The only remaining heir, Prince Jung-Hyun is living in exile, unaware of his family's dark fate. Still loyal to the dynasty, the beautiful and deadly warrior Soha sets out to find Jung-Hyun and guide him to become the great leader he was born to be. But with the Army's greatest assassins and the criminal underworld hunting them, Soha and Jung-Hyun are swept into an explosive, non-stop battle of swords, wits and bloodshed as they fight to reclaim the fallen throne.
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Title: Say You Love Me
Character: Seo Young-chae [young]
Released: February 25, 2004
Type: TV
There’s Byung-Soo and Young-Chae who have grown up together ever since they were little. They seem to share everything, not to mention their dream so in order to together make their dream come true, they enter the same film company. And there’s Ina who is the successful owner and the president of the film production company. She also has Hee-Soo beside her but they are not desperately in love with each other and lead their own private lives. They just occasionally go out and sleep together. But all of a sudden there comes this young and lovable couple and somehow she’s not that pleased to see them. Why? This young couple seems to be such full of life and they’re in love! She has missed all that just in order to come up where she’s now. She is totally feeling at loss now and she just can’t stand this feeling. She asks Hee-Soo, “Take Young-Chae away from Byung-Soo.”
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Title: Good Partner
Character: Han Yu-ri
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV