1. Lee Na-young is best known for her leading roles in television series such as Ruler of Your Own World, Ireland and Romance Is a Bonus Book, as well as the films Someone Special and Maundy Thursday.
18 Facts About Lee Na-young
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Lee Na-young began her modeling career in a Jambangee Jeans TV commercial in 1998, then made her acting debut that same year.
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Lee Na-young appeared in the 2001 music video for "Catherine's Wheel" by Britpop band Rialto.
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Lee Na-young played an indie rock musician who unexpectedly falls for a terminally ill grifter, and Lee and her fellow cast members were praised for their realistic, nuanced acting.
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Lee Na-young later reunited with Ruler of Your Own World screenwriter In Jung-ok for Ireland, a 2004 drama about a Korean adoptee who journeys to her homeland, but its reception was less positive.
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Lee Na-young is considered to have one of the most beautiful and idealized faces in Korea.
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Lee Na-young later became the first Korean to appear on the cover of fashion magazine W Korea, for its November 2009 issue.
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Lee Na-young then played a quirky, English-challenged civil servant in Kim Sung-su's comedy film Please Teach Me English and the harmless stalker of a struggling baseball player in Jang Jin's romantic comedy Someone Special.
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Lee Na-young won several Best Actress prizes for Someone Special, notably from the prestigious Blue Dragon Film Awards.
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Lee Na-young next played an emotionally tormented sleepwalker in Kim Ki-duk's Dream, and nearly died while filming a scene where her character hangs herself.
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In 2010, Lee Na-young headlined Lady Daddy, playing a trans woman photographer whose life is disrupted with the sudden arrival of a young boy who claims that she's his biological father.
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Lee Na-young then returned to television with the big-budget action-mystery series The Fugitive: Plan B, in which she performed her own action scenes without a stunt double.
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In 2013, Lee Na-young appeared in a minor role in the two-part Japanese film SPEC: Close.
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Lee Na-young then played an actress having a secret romance with a boom operator in Sad Scene; it was among the three short films in the omnibus Woman, Man commissioned by W Korea for its 10th anniversary in 2015.
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In 2018, Lee Na-young returned to the silver screen with the North Korean refugee drama Beautiful Days, which premiered at the 23rd Busan International Film Festival.
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In 2019, Lee Na-young returned to the small screen after nine years by starring in the romance comedy drama Romance Is a Bonus Book alongside Lee Na-young Jong-suk.
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Lee Na-young played a main character named Kang Dan-yi who is a new temporary worker of book publishing company.
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Lee Na-young married actor Won Bin on May 30,2015, in a small, private ceremony in a wheat field near an inn in Won's hometown, Jeongseon County, Gangwon Province, South Korea.