Kim Hee-ae was born on April 23,1967 and is a South Korean actress.
16 Facts About Kim Hee-ae
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Kim Hee-ae is best known for her leading roles in Korean dramas such as Sons and Daughters, Perfect Love, My Husband's Woman, How Long I've Kissed, Secret Affair, and The World of the Married.
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Kim Hee-ae has received multiple acting awards including two Daesang and four Best Actress Awards for Television at the Baeksang Arts Awards.
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Kim Hee-ae was born in Jejudo, and her family later moved to Seoul.
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In 1983, Kim Hee-ae made her acting debut in the film The First Day of the Twentieth Year.
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Kim Hee-ae again drew praise in 2003 for two consecutive hit dramas.
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Kim Hee-ae worked again with Kim a year later in Precious Family, playing a woman who marries into a rich family who treats her badly after she gives birth to a baby with autism.
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Kim Hee-ae returned to acting four years later with Midas, in the role of a wealthy chaebol heiress who fosters greed and ambition in a young lawyer.
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Kim Hee-ae then won Best Actress at the Baeksang Arts Awards for her portrayal of a housewife increasingly stifled by her husband's obsession with status who finds herself falling for her son's dentist in How Long I've Kissed, one of the inaugural dramas in 2012 of new cable channel jTBC.
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In 2014, Kim Hee-ae returned to the big screen after a 21-year absence in Thread of Lies, a film adaptation of Kim Hee-ae Ryeo-ryeong's novel Elegant Lies about teen bullying which leads to a young girl's suicide.
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Shortly after, Kim Hee-ae reunited with the writer and director of How Long I've Kissed in Secret Affair, about an art foundation director who embarks on a passionate affair with a poor but talented pianist 20 years her junior.
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Kim Hee-ae next played the muse of real-life folk music group Twin Folio in the 2015 film C'est Si Bon, named after a music lounge located in Myeong-dong which was famous in the 1970s and 1980s for its live performances.
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Kim Hee-ae returned to the small screen with the police procedural drama Mrs Cop, playing a violent crime detective who struggles to become a good mother.
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Kim Hee-ae then returned to the big screen, starring in the psychological thriller The Vanished and drama film Herstory, based on the real story of comfort women.
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Kim Hee-ae married Lee Chan-jin, CEO of the web portal DreamWiz, in 1996.
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Kim Hee-ae is a Roman Catholic and was one of 50 Catholic celebrities who appeared in the 2014 music video for the digital single "Koinonia" to commemorate Pope Francis' visit to South Korea, the first time in 19 years that the pope visited Asia.