31 Facts About Jeon Do-yeon

Jeon Do-yeon made her film debut with The Contact, a melodrama that established her as a leading actress.

Jeon Do-yeon continued to gain acclaim with A Promise, a romantic tragedy, and The Harmonium in My Memory.

Jeon Do-yeon's career reached new heights with You Are My Sunshine.

Jeon Do-yeon is considered a role model for many young actresses in South Korea.

Jeon Do-yeon was born on February 11,1973, in Namgajwa-dong, Seodaemun District, Seoul, South Korea.

Jeon Do-yeon has two older brothers and is the youngest in her family.

Jeon Do-yeon made her acting debut in television series Our Heaven in 1992.

Jeon Do-yeon then continued to play supporting roles in Scent of Love and General Hospital and Love is Blue, but struggled to receive any significant attention.

The drama's director, Jeon San PD, made a remark stating that Jeon Do-yeon is a "tough and ambitious newcomer".

Jeon Do-yeon spent five years starring in television dramas before achieving instant star status with her feature film debut acting alongside Han Suk-kyu in 1997 film The Contact, which became the second-highest grossing Korean film of that year.

Jeon Do-yeon won numerous awards through the work, including Best New Actress at the 35th Grand Bell Awards and 18th Blue Dragon Film Awards.

From 1997 after the success of The Contact, Jeon Do-yeon emerged as a prominent actress in the Korean film industry and went on to establish a reputation as a "chameleon" who can take on a wide variety of roles, from her performance as a doctor in the hit melodrama A Promise, which won her Best Actress at the 35th Baeksang Arts Awards, to that of a schoolgirl in the 1999 film The Harmonium in My Memory, then a wife having an adulterous affair in the 1999 film Happy End.

Jeon Do-yeon won Best Actress at the 35th Baeksang Arts Awards for her role in A Promise and several other local film awards for her role in Happy End.

In 2005, Jeon Do-yeon played a prostitute who contracts AIDS in Park Jin-pyo's hard-hitting melodrama You Are My Sunshine.

Jeon Do-yeon then returned to the small screen with Lovers in Prague, a drama that tells the love story between the president's daughter and an ordinary detective.

In 2007, Jeon Do-yeon starred in Lee Chang-dong's melodrama Secret Sunshine, which propelled her to international recognition.

Jeon Do-yeon won Best Performance by an Actress at the 1st Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

Jeon Do-yeon came back to Cannes as the film was chosen to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.

In 2011, Jeon Do-yeon played a female con artist who risks her life for ten days for a final deal with a cold-hearted debt collector in Countdown.

In 2013, after a two-year break, Jeon Do-yeon returned with Bang Eun-jin's Way Back Home, a film based on the true story of a housewife who was imprisoned for two years on the island of Martinique after being wrongly arrested for drug smuggling at Paris's Orly Airport in 2004.

In 2015, Jeon Do-yeon starred in The Shameless, a thriller that explores the unexpected and carnal attraction that develops between a detective and the girlfriend of the murderer that he investigates.

The film was selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the 68th Cannes Film Festival and Jeon Do-yeon returned to Cannes for the fourth time in her career.

Jeon Do-yeon then made a return to the small screen after twelve years in the 2016 Korean remake of the American legal drama The Good Wife.

Jeon Do-yeon was praised for displaying a wide range of emotions and agony of a housewife who is forced to become a lawyer again after her husband is mired in a scandal and put behind bars.

At the festival, Jeon Do-yeon was honored with Golden Mulberry Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jeon Do-yeon won Best Actress at the 56th Baeksang Arts Awards, the 6th Korean Film Producers Association Awards and 28th Buil Film Awards for her performance in the film.

In early 2020, Jeon Do-yeon starred in Beasts Clawing at Straws, a mystery thriller based on Keisuke Sone's novel, alongside Jung Woo-sung.

Jeon Do-yeon made her small-screen comeback in Hur Jin-ho's first television series project Lost which premiered on JTBC in September 2021.

Jeon Do-yeon played the role of a former national handball player who now runs a banchan shop, raising her high school daughter alone.

Jeon Do-yeon married businessman and professional car racer Kang Shi-kyu, who is nine years her senior, in a private wedding ceremony at Shilla Hotel on March 11,2007.

Jeon Do-yeon gave birth to a daughter on January 22,2009.