1. Bae Doona, anglicized as Doona Bae, is a South Korean actress and photographer.
22 Facts About Bae Doona
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Bae Doona debuted as a model and first gained recognition for her roles in Barking Dogs Never Bite and Take Care of My Cat.
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Bae Doona became known for her performances as a political activist in Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, archer Park Nam-joo in Bong Joon-ho's The Host, and as the doll in Hirokazu Kore-eda's Air Doll.
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Later that year, Bae Doona appeared as Park Eun-suh in The Ring Virus, a Korean remake of the Japanese horror film Ring.
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Bae Doona continued to work on TV, starring in Country Princess and Rosemary.
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Bae Doona appeared on stage in 2004 in a production of Sunday Seoul, a play co-written by Park Chan-wook.
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Bae Doona reunited with Bong Joon-ho in the 2006 film The Host, which became the highest-grossing film in South Korean box office history.
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Bae Doona later returned to television, through the series Someday and How to Meet a Perfect Neighbor.
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Bae Doona made her English-language Hollywood debut in Cloud Atlas, as Sonmi~451, a clone in a dystopian Korea.
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Bae Doona played the minor roles of Tilda Ewing, the wife of an abolitionist in pre-Civil War America, and a Mexican woman who crosses paths with an assassin.
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Co-directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, the adaptation of David Mitchell's novel premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival to divisive reviews, though Bae Doona's performance was praised by critics.
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Back in South Korea, Bae Doona next starred in the 2014 film A Girl at My Door, directed by July Jung and produced by Lee Chang-dong.
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The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and Bae Doona later won Best Actress at the Asian Film Awards for her performance.
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Bae Doona then appeared in a 90-minute web film directed by her older brother, commercial director Bae Doona Doo-han.
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Back on the big screen, Bae Doona starred alongside Ha Jung-woo in the survival drama film The Tunnel.
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Bae Doona then teamed up with Japanese director Shunji Iwai and actor Kim Joo-hyuk for the short film, Chang-ok's Letter.
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Bae Doona returned to Korean TV screens in 2017 with crime thriller Stranger, playing the passionate yet empathetic police officer Lieutenant Han Yeo-jin, contrasting Cho Seung-woo's character Prosecutor Hwang Si-mok.
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In June 2018, Bae Doona was one of 14 professionals from the Korean film industry invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Bae Doona starred in both seasons of the 2019 Netflix period zombie series Kingdom, and romance drama Matrimonial Chaos, a remake of the Japanese television series of the same name.
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Bae Doona starred in a French-speaking role in the romantic comedy film Je Suis La in 2019, starring alongside Alain Chabat.
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Bae Doona was cast in the 2021 Netflix sci-fi thriller The Silent Sea, alongside Gong Yoo, Lee Moo-saeng and Kim Sun-young.
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On March 3,2023, Bae Doona signed with Goodman Story Entertainment.