17 Facts About Shim Eun-kyung

Shim Eun-kyung starred in the box office hits Sunny, Miss Granny and Fabricated City, as well as television series Naeil's Cantabile.

Shim Eun-kyung has starred in both Korean and Japanese language entertainment.

Shim Eun-kyung won Best Actress at the Chunsa Film Art Awards, the Baeksang Arts Awards, the Director's Cut Awards, and the Buil Film Awards.

Shim Eun-kyung next starred as the eccentric savant pianist heroine in Naeil's Cantabile, a Korean drama adaptation of Japanese manga Nodame Cantabile.

However, the series was a critical and commercial flop, and Shim Eun-kyung was criticized for her acting in the series.

Shim Eun-kyung returned to film, starring in Seoul Station directed by Yeon Sang-ho, who directed Train to Busan, revenge thriller Missing You, and Queen of Walking, which Shim Eun-kyung calls a turning point in her career.

In 2019, Shim Eun-kyung made her Japanese film debut in The Journalist and gained good reviews for her performance as a Japanese reporter who delves into a government corruption scandal targeting the Abe administration.

Shim Eun-kyung won the Best Actress award at the Mainichi Film Awards, and subsequently the Best Actress award at 43rd Japanese Academy Awards in the following year after.

Shim Eun-kyung starred in the film Blue Hour, a story of an unusual friendship.

Shim Eun-kyung won the Best Actress award at the Takasaki Film Festival for her performance.

In 2020, Shim Eun-kyung returned to Korean entertainment with the finance drama Money Game.

In 2022, Shim Eun-kyung was invited sit on the jury bench of the 35th Tokyo International Film Festival.

Shim Eun-kyung's hobbies are listening to music, reading science fiction comics, and doing taekwondo.

Shim Eun-kyung is the drummer of a band she formed with friends, Chick and Candy.

Shim Eun-kyung shot a commercial with rocker Seo Taiji in 2008 and played the younger version of Lee Ji-ah's character Sujini in The Legend, but she didn't know that Lee and Seo were secretly married until 2011 when Shim was implicated in rumors that she was Seo and Lee's daughter, which she denied.

Originally nominated for the Best Actress award at the 2011 Grand Bell Awards for her role in Sunny, Shim Eun-kyung complained publicly through her Twitter account when the awards committee removed her name from the official list of the nominees after she notified them she could not attend the event because she was currently studying in the US She was one of four actors and actresses removed from the initial nomination.

Shim Eun-kyung ended up winning Best Supporting Actress for her role in Romantic Heaven; Chun Woo-hee, her castmate in Sunny, accepted the honor on Shim Eun-kyung's behalf.