1. Son Eon-jin, better known by her stage name, Son Ye-jin, is a South Korean actress who rose to fame in 2003 in The Classic and Summer Scent, which were followed by the commercially successful A Moment to Remember.
23 Facts About Son Ye-jin
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Son Ye-jin has acted in popular television dramas, such as Alone in Love, Something in the Rain, and Crash Landing on You.
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Son Ye-jin was the voice of Jung Mi-jo in Park Ki-hyung's film Secret Tears in 2000, and then took leading roles in television dramas such as Delicious Proposal, Sun-hee and Jin-hee, and Great Ambition.
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Son Ye-jin further solidified her status as a Hallyu star in 2003 by taking the lead in TV drama Summer Scent, the third installment of the season-themed tetralogy Endless Love directed by Yoon Seok-ho.
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Son Ye-jin, who assumed a pure and innocent image in her films The Classic and A Moment to Remember, was given the title of the "Nation's First Love" in Korea.
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In 2006, Son Ye-jin became the highest-paid Korean actress in Korean television series when she was guaranteed a talent fee of KRW 50 million per episode for her lead role in the SBS drama Alone in Love.
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Son Ye-jin cast off her nice girl image in her next projects.
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Son Ye-jin played a con artist in The Art of Seduction, an ambitious reporter in Spotlight, a femme fatale in Open City, and a divorcee in the critically acclaimed series Alone in Love.
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In 2012, Son Ye-jin starred in her first blockbuster, The Tower, a remake of the 1974 Hollywood disaster film The Towering Inferno.
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Son Ye-jin returned to television in 2013 in the revenge drama Shark, then headlined Blood and Ties, a thriller about a daughter who suspects that her father was involved in a kidnapping-murder case.
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Son Ye-jin reunited with Shark co-star Kim Nam-gil in the 2014 period adventure film The Pirates, which received mixed reviews but was a commercial hit with more than 8.6 million admissions at the end of its theatre run, and which won Son Ye-jin the Best Actress award at the Grand Bell Awards.
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Son Ye-jin next starred in the black comedy Bad Guys Always Die opposite Taiwanese actor Chen Bolin, a Chinese-Korean co-production that was filmed on Jeju Island.
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In 2016, Son Ye-jin reunited with My Wife Got Married co-star Kim Joo-hyuk in The Truth Beneath, a political thriller, for which she received critical acclaim.
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Son Ye-jin won Best Actress at the 25th Buil Film Awards and 17th Busan Film Critics Awards for her performance.
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Son Ye-jin said major events from Princess Deokhye's life were portrayed well, and the film's biggest virtue was how it made audiences want to know more about her.
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In 2018, Son Ye-jin starred alongside So Ji-sub in the romantic film Be with You, based on the Japanese novel of the same name.
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That same year, Son Ye-jin returned to the small screen after five years with JTBC's romantic drama Something in the Rain.
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The series achieved commercial popularity, and Son Ye-jin received rave reviews for her performance.
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Son Ye-jin starred in the crime thriller The Negotiation, alongside Hyun Bin, playing a professional negotiator working to save hostages.
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In 2019, Son Ye-jin reunited with Hyun Bin in the global hit romantic drama Crash Landing on You as a wealthy heiress who falls in love with a North Korean commissioned officer.
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Son Ye-jin was scheduled to have her Hollywood debut in 2022, starring opposite Sam Worthington in filmmaker Andrew Niccol's work The Cross, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, her agency requested a delay in filming.
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Son Ye-jin is a Roman Catholic and her baptismal name is Dominica.
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On January 1,2021, it was confirmed that Son Ye-jin had been in a relationship with actor Hyun Bin, her co-star in The Negotiation and Crash Landing on You, since the prior year, after Crash Landing on You had concluded.