Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 19, 1947
Place of Birth
Gaeseong, Gyeonggi, Korea
Credits
95 titles
Youn Yuh-jung
Biography
Youn Yuh-jung (Korean: 윤여정; pronounced [junjʌdʑʌŋ]; born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. Youn gained attention on Korean television in the late 1960s and rose to prominence with the film Woman of Fire (1971). She retired in the mid-1970s after marrying and immigrating to the United States. However, she returned to acting in the late 1980s following her divorce. Known as the "Godmother of Chungmu-ro," Youn's notable films include The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), The Bacchus Lady (2016) and Canola (2016), as well as a series of matriarch roles in television dramas such as Men of the Bath House (1995), Be Strong, Geum-soon! (2005), Daughters-in-Law (2007), My Husband Got a Family (2012) and Dear My Friends (2016). She gained international recognition for her role in Minari (2020), becoming the first Korean actress to win a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Independent Spirit Award, a British Academy Film Award, and an Academy Award, all for Best Supporting Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Youn Yuh-jung, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Wedding Banquet
Ja-Young
Sohn's Questions
Self
Earl.
Self
Dog Days
Min-seo
Nattering with Nah
Self
BEEF
Chairwoman Park
Youn's Unexpected Journey
Self
Pachinko
Older Sunja
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
Sun-Hee (voice)
Heaven: To the Land of Happiness
Ms. Yoon
Be a Wicked Woman
Ms. Choi
Minari
Soonja
Next Entertainment, Visionary
Self
Youn Stay
Self
Lucky Chan-sil
Grandmother
Beasts Clawing at Straws
Soon-ja
Never Twice
Bok Mak-Rye
Modern Korea
Self (archive footage)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
You Quiz on the Block
Self
Keys to the Heart
In-sook
Master In The House
Self
Ladies Of The Forest
Soon-shim
Youn's Kitchen
Self
The Bacchus Lady
So-young
Canola
Gye-choon
Dear My Friends
Oh Choong-nam
Right Now, Wrong Then
Kang Deoksoo
Intimate Enemies
Yeo-jung
Sense8
Min-Jung
The Producers
Self
Salut d'Amour
Geum-nim
Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village
Self
Hill of Freedom
Innkeeper
Wonderful Days
Jang So-sim
Noonas Over Flowers
Self
The Queen's Classroom
Yong Hyun-ja
Boomerang Family
Mother
Behind the Camera
Self
In Another Country
Park Sook
The Taste of Money
Baek Geum-ok
The King 2 Hearts
Bang Yang-seon (the Queen Mother)
My Husband Got a Family
Uhm Chung-ae
重複刪除
嚴清愛
List
Mi-hye's Mother
Hindsight
Madame Kang
Can You Hear My Heart?
Hwang Soon-geum
Home Sweet Home
Sung Eun-sook
The Housemaid
Byeong-sik a.k.a. Miss Cho
Ha Ha Ha
Moonkyung's Mother