1. Chu Eun-ju, known by her stage name Choo Ja-hyun, is a South Korean actress.
17 Facts About Choo Ja-hyun
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Best known in Korea for the films Bloody Tie and Portrait of a Beauty, Choo has actively worked in China since 2007, notably in television drama The Temptation to Go Home.
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Choo Ja-hyun revealed on a Chinese TV show that she had a little sister who died by drowning when they were younger.
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Choo Ja-hyun graduated from Dankook University, with a bachelor's degree in Theater and Film.
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Choo Ja-hyun made her acting debut in 1996, and went on to appear in several television series, among them Successful Story of a Bright Girl, Sunrise House, and Apgujeong House.
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Choo Ja-hyun won acting recognition from the Grand Bell Awards, the Korean Film Awards, and the Director's Cut Awards, as well as nominations from the Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Baeksang Arts Awards.
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Choo Ja-hyun was then cast in the erotic period drama Portrait of a Beauty, based on Lee Jung-myung's novel Painter of the Wind which reimagined Joseon artist Shin Yun-bok as a woman disguised as a man.
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Portrait of a Beauty became the 8th best-selling Korean film of 2008, and Choo Ja-hyun again received supporting actress nominations for playing a gisaeng who entertains noblemen by performing dances and poetry readings.
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Choo Ja-hyun starred in Loveholic in 2010, a character-driven romance drama directed by Kwon Chil-in.
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Choo Ja-hyun played a self-destructive woman with a drinking problem and professional crises; she goes to stay at her friend's house until she sorts out her life, then has an affair with the latter's cuckolded husband.
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Choo Ja-hyun had begun building her pan-Asian profile when she appeared in the 2003 Taiwanese drama Scent of Love, which ranked number one in the ratings when it aired in Taiwan.
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In late 2007, Choo Ja-hyun was part of the main cast of another Gu Long adaptation, The Legend of Chu Liuxiang.
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Fluent in Chinese and English, Choo Ja-hyun has since relocated to Beijing and concentrated on her acting career in China, with occasional forays in Korean cinema.
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Choo Ja-hyun's name is rendered in Chinese as Qiu Cixuan.
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Choo Ja-hyun continued playing lead roles in Chinese television dramas of various genres, such as Wipe Out the Bandits of Wulong Mountain, Turbulence of the Mu Clan, Hu Xian, Legend of Southwest Dance and Music, Xiu Xiu's Men, and Gorgeous Workers.
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Choo Ja-hyun announced on November 30,2016 that she would be marrying Chinese actor and singer Yu Xiaoguang in 2017.
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On June 1,2018, Chu Choo Ja-hyun gave birth to a boy at a hospital in Seoul, South Korea.