Kim Tae-hee was born on 29 March 1980 in Ulsan, South Korea.
23 Facts About Kim Tae-hee
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Kim Tae-hee's father is Kim Yoo Moon, who established, and is chairman of, Hankook Union Transportation Company in 1984.
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Kim Tae-hee is often involved in various charities to help out underserved youths and broken families in the Ulsan area.
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Kim Tae-hee has an older sister, Kim Hee-won, and a younger brother, Lee Wan; the latter is an actor and appeared in her television series Stairway to Heaven.
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Kim Tae-hee attended Samshin Elementary School, Daehyun Middle School and then enrolled at Ulsan Girls' High School.
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In 1999, Kim moved to Seoul to attend college at the prestigious Seoul National University, where she became the president of the SNU Women's Ski Club.
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In 2000, an advertising executive saw Kim Tae-hee riding the subway, and offered her a modeling job.
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Kim Tae-hee appeared in television commercials and print ads, before making her acting debut with a small role in the 2001 melodrama Last Present.
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Kim Tae-hee rose to stardom in 2003 via her portrayal of the evil stepsister in the popular SBS TV series Stairway to Heaven.
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Kim Tae-hee was picked by Korea Broadcast Advertising Corporation as the top advertising model of the year in 2008, earning her title of "CF Queen".
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However, Kim Tae-hee expressed her desire to be valued properly as an actor, preferring to succeed based on her acting skills rather than her image.
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Kim Tae-hee then turned to film, starring in action fantasy epic The Restless, and the romantic comedy Venus and Mars.
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Back on the small screen in 2009, Kim Tae-hee played an NIS profiler in the spy action thriller Iris.
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Kim Tae-hee shed tears at the KBS Drama Awards when she won an Excellence Award in a Mid-length Drama; which was her first acting award, excluding newcomer and popularity awards.
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Kim Tae-hee left her then-agency Namoo Actors in January 2010 to join Lua Entertainment, which was founded by her brother-in-law.
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Kim Tae-hee later encountered backlash from some Japanese netizens for allegedly promoting South Korea's claim in the Liancourt Rocks dispute during her 2005 trip to Switzerland as a goodwill ambassador.
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In 2013, Kim Tae-hee starred in her first historical drama Jang Ok-jung, Living by Love as the infamous royal concubine Hui-bin Jang.
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Kim Tae-hee returned to Korean television in 2015, playing an heiress who recovers from a coma with the help of a doctor-for-hire, the titular Yong-pal.
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In September 2012, Kim Tae-hee started dating South Korean singer-actor Rain.
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Kim Tae-hee gave birth to a daughter on 25 October 2017.
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Kim Tae-hee was one of 30 Catholic celebrities who appeared in the 2014 music video for the digital single "Koinonia" to commemorate Pope Francis's visit to South Korea, the first time in 19 years that an incumbent pope visited South Korea.
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In May 2022, Kim Tae-hee donated 200 million won to help neighbors affected by forest fires in Uljin, Gyeongbuk and Samcheok, Gangwon through the Hope Bridge National Disaster Mitigation Association.
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On July 22,2022, Kim Tae-hee donated 1.1 million KF94 masks and face masks to NGO G-Foundation.