1. Kim Ji-ah, better known by the stage name Lee Ji-ah, is a South Korean actress.
21 Facts About Lee Ji-ah
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Lee Ji-ah's grandfather is educator Kim Soon-heung one of the patrons for the creation Seoul Arts High School, and was chairman of Kyunggi High School.
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Lee Ji-ah was in the sixth grade when her family moved to the US and stayed there for 10 years.
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Lee Ji-ah majored in graphic design at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design.
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Lee Ji-ah left the US and returned to Korea in early 2005 and legally changed her name from Kim Sang-eun to Kim Ji-ah and adopted the stage name Lee Ji-ah.
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In 2007, Lee Ji-ah made her acting debut in the fantasy television series The Legend opposite Bae Yong-joon.
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At the year-end MBC Drama Awards, Lee Ji-ah won the Best New Actress award, Popularity award, and Best Couple award.
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Lee Ji-ah again won Best New Actress for TV at the Baeksang Arts Awards a year later.
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Lee Ji-ah then starred in 2008's Beethoven Virus wherein Lee played a violinist who gets diagnosed with a disease that results in complete hearing loss.
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Lee Ji-ah was next cast in Style, a TV series based on the 2008 chick lit novel of the same title.
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Lee Ji-ah next starred in the Korean-Japanese romance film The Relation of Face, Mind and Love alongside Kang Ji-hwan, which marks her big-screen debut.
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Lee Ji-ah then co-starred along Jung Woo-sung, Cha Seung-won and Soo Ae in the 2010 spy series Athena: Goddess of War, a spin-off to 2009's Iris.
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In 2015, Lee Ji-ah starred in the two-episode fantasy drama Snow Lotus Flower.
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In 2016, Lee Ji-ah made her big screen comeback in the action thriller film Musudan.
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In May 2016, Lee Ji-ah left HB Entertainment and signed with new management agency BH Entertainment.
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In 2018, after a three-year hiatus, Lee Ji-ah made her return to the small screen in the melodrama My Mister.
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Lee Ji-ah left for the United States to study in 1993 and met Seo through an acquaintance at a concert in Los Angeles the same year.
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In 1996, Seo announced his retirement from show business, after which he went to the US where he and Lee Ji-ah quietly married on October 12,1997.
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Lee Ji-ah, who stayed behind in the US, began divorce proceedings in 2006 at the Santa Monica Family Court on the grounds of irreconcilable differences due to incompatible lifestyles and personalities.
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Lee Ji-ah claimed in the 2011 lawsuit that she filed for the divorce in 2006 and the court decision became effective in 2009, thus the three years required under Korean law for seeking alimony hadn't expired.
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Seo's lawyers opposed the motion, and Lee Ji-ah resumed her case, with her lawyer arguing that the California court ruling was invalid and that the two were still legally married.