1. Moon So-ri is a South Korean actress, film director and screenwriter.
19 Facts About Moon So-ri
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Moon So-ri is best known for her acclaimed leading roles in Oasis, A Good Lawyer's Wife, and When Life Gives You Tangerines.
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Moon So-ri appeared in plays and short films such as Black Cut and To the Spring Mountain before finding fame as a leading actress.
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Moon So-ri was named Best Actress at the 2003 Seattle International Film Festival.
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Moon So-ri took a more central role in her next feature Sa-kwa, an introspective relationship drama about a woman who embarks on a new relationship after being dumped by her long-time boyfriend.
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Moon So-ri starred in her first ever television series in 2007, the big-budget fusion fantasy-period drama The Legend.
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Moon So-ri then narrated My Heart Is Not Broken Yet, a documentary on Song Sin-do and her decade-long lawsuit against the Japanese government for an official apology towards her fellow comfort women.
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Moon So-ri followed that with sports movie Forever the Moment, another TV drama, and the human rights-themed Fly, Penguin in 2009.
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Moon So-ri was one of the four characters in Baik Hyun-jhin's short film The End.
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That same year, Moon So-ri joined Konkuk University's Faculty of Arts as a professor of film studies.
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In 2012, she worked again with Hong Sang-soo in In Another Country, which was headlined by French actress Isabelle Huppert, of whom Moon So-ri is a fan.
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Moon So-ri then reunited with Sul Kyung-gu in the spy comedy The Spy: Undercover Operation.
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On television, she was designated as one of the co-hosts of a new talk show, Magic Eye; this was the first time Moon So-ri had been involved in variety programming.
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Moon So-ri then made her directorial debut with the short film The Actress, in which she played the title character who goes mountain climbing with friends then meets up for drinks with a group of male acquaintances; once alcohol has loosened the tongues of her companions, she learns their prejudices against her.
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Moon So-ri has cited Lee Chang-dong as a key influence on her directorial work, saying that she thought about her experience with Lee a lot while making these three shorts.
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In 2015, Moon So-ri became the first Korean actor invited as a jury member of the Locarno International Film Festival; festival artistic director Carlo Chatrian lauded her "brave choices " and called Moon So-ri "the jewel of the Korean movie industry".
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In 2017, Moon So-ri featured as a political journalist in the election film The Mayor.
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In June 2021, Moon So-ri appeared in the MBC drama On the Verge of Insanity aired on MBC with Jung Jae-young and Lee Sang-yeob.
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Moon So-ri has confirmed that she will appear in the Netflix film Seoul Vibe with actor Yoo Ah-in, and Netflix drama Queen Maker with actress Kim Hee-ae, which are both expected to be released around 2022.