28 Facts About Lee Da-hae

Lee Da-hae, or Lee Da-hey was born on Byun Da-hye on April 19,1984 and is an Australian-South Korean actress.

Lee Da-hae is best known for her roles in Korean dramas such as Heaven's Fate, My Girl, Green Rose, The Slave Hunters, Miss Ripley, and Hotel King, as well as the Chinese dramas Love Actually and Best Couple.

Lee Da-hae is well known for being fluent in Korean, English and Chinese, earning her huge popularity in China.

Lee Da-hae is the first Korean actress to speak her lines in Mandarin, displaying her linguistic skills in Chinese dramas.

Lee Da-hae, or known by her birth name as Byun Da-hye, was born in Seoul, South Korea on April 19,1984.

In 2004, Lee Da-hae was cast in her first leading role in the Im Sung-han drama Lotus Flower Fairy, in which she played the pure-hearted daughter of a shaman who becomes alienated by her family and society after her identity is revealed.

Lee Da-hae won Best New Actress at the 41st Baeksang Arts Awards for her performance.

Lee Da-hae showcased her versatility in two successful, but very different series.

Green Rose is her first TV series produced by SBS, Lee Da-hae reunited with her Lotus Flower Fairy co-stars Jung Hye-sun and Han Jin-hee in Green Rose.

Lee Da-hae played the last living daughter of a once-respected clan in the countryside whose traditional feminine virtues is put to the test when the son of a rich investor demands that she sell her ancestral house to him.

Later that year, Lee Da-hae was originally cast as the heroine in the inter-generational epic East of Eden, set against the backdrop of a coal mining town in Taebaek through the 1960s until the present.

Lee Da-hae was admitted to Konkuk University, where she majored in Theater and Film.

Lee Da-hae reunited with her Green Rose co-stars Lee Da-hae Jong-hyuk and Sung Dong-il.

Lee Da-hae opined that those issues weren't a big deal, and had only been magnified by the show's popularity.

Lee Da-hae's character received criticism for being an overly passive damsel in distress, and a "Public Menace Un-nyun" meme circulated, to the extent that writer Chun Sung-il issued a public defense and apology towards Lee.

Lee Da-hae was then cast in the leading role of Korea's first female royal barista who plots to assassinate King Gojong through poisoned coffee in Gabi, adapted from the historical fiction novel Russian Coffee by Kim Tak-hwan.

Lee Da-hae agreed to star in the film via verbal agreement, but when she dropped out of the project ten days before filming began, production company Ocean Film sued her for breach of contract.

In 2011, Lee Da-hae played an antiheroine with a traumatic past who lies and manipulates her way up the hotel executive ladder and into the hearts of two powerful men in Miss Ripley.

Lee Da-hae, who is fluent in English and Mandarin, and has a significant fan base in China with more than six million followers on her Weibo microblog, made her Chinese television drama debut in 2012.

Previous Korean actresses who had appeared in Chinese productions spoke their lines in Korean and were later dubbed, but Lee Da-hae worked hard to master the language and fully memorized her lines, making her the first Korean actress to perform in Mandarin.

Lee Da-hae returned to Korean television in the 2013 espionage-action drama Iris II, the sequel to the 2009 hit series.

Lee Da-hae signed with a new agency, FNC Entertainment in 2014.

Lee Da-hae reunited with previous My Girl costar Lee Dong-wook in Hotel King, in which she played an heiress trying to save the family-owned seven-star hotel.

Lee Da-hae was next cast as a top actress forced to marry an actor she hates in the Korean-Chinese drama Best Couple; it is the first TV series produced by Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba and aired in China in early 2016.

In 2018, Lee Da-hae is set to return to the small screen in Korea, starring in SBS' drama Good Witch.

In March 2023, Lee Da-hae signed with new agency K-Star Global Entertainment.

In December 2013, Lee Da-hae filed defamation charges against Internet users who spread malicious rumors claiming she had been involved in an upscale celebrity prostitution ring.

On March 20,2023, Lee Da-hae announced their engagement on her social media accounts.