1. Kim Hye-ja is a South Korean actress and humanitarian.
10 Facts About Kim Hye-ja
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Kim Hye-ja was born on October 25,1941, in Keijo, Keiki-do, Korea, Empire of Japan.
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Kim Hye-ja was studying Living Art at Ewha Womans University when she dropped out of college to pursue a career in acting.
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Kim Hye-ja holds the record of having won the Daesang at the MBC Drama Awards the most times : in 1988,1992, and 1999.
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Kim Hye-ja is the first and only person to have won the Daesang four times at the Baeksang Arts Awards: in 1979,1989,2009, and 2019.
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Kim Hye-ja was the first ever Korean actress to be named Best Actress by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
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From 2011 to 2012, Kim Hye-ja headlined Living Among the Rich, one of the inaugural programs of newly launched cable channel jTBC.
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Kim Hye-ja returned to the theater in 2013 to 2014 with Oscar, Letters to God, a Korean stage adaptation of the French novel Oscar and the Lady in Pink.
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Kim Hye-ja has been a goodwill ambassador for the nonprofit Christian relief organization World Vision Korea since 1991.
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Kim Hye-ja has visited refugee camps in war-torn and poverty-stricken regions in more than 20 countries around the globe, including Ethiopia, Kenya, India, Bangladesh and Sierra Leone, and sponsors 103 children from underdeveloped countries.