1. Song Yoon-ah is best known for starring in the film Jail Breakers, as well as the television dramas Hotelier, On Air, Mama, The K2, and Show Window: The Queen's House.
18 Facts About Song Yoon-ah
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Song Yoon-ah was born in Seoul, but spent her childhood in Gimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province.
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Song Yoon-ah has two elder brothers, the first one is a doctor.
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Song Yoon-ah next played an anthropologist from the National Institute of Scientific Investigation in the 2004 horror film Face.
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Arang followed, in which Song Yoon-ah played a detective on the trail of a serial killer; this was her first time to get top billing over a male costar.
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Song Yoon-ah returned to television with My Beloved Sister, in the title role of a graduate art student who grew up wealthy but must suddenly take on the responsibilities as head of the family and take care of her younger brothers after their father goes bankrupt then disappears.
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Song Yoon-ah's next hit drama came in 2008 with On Air, a behind-the-scenes look at the Korean entertainment industry.
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Song Yoon-ah was cast in the role of scribe Kim Eun-sook's alter ego, a successful, acerbic screenwriter who clashes egos with a top actress while falling for a TV director.
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Song Yoon-ah became an adjunct professor and part-time lecturer at Seoul Arts College in 2010, as a faculty member of the Department of Performing Arts and the Department of Broadcasting, Entertainment and Visual Arts.
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Song Yoon-ah made her acting comeback in the 2014 drama series Mama, which revolved around a terminally ill single mother's quest to find a loving family for her son before her impending death, leading to her befriending the current wife of a former lover.
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Song Yoon-ah's performance won Best Television Actress at the 51st Baeksang Arts Awards.
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In 2016, Song Yoon-ah played a villain in action drama The K2.
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In 2018, Song Yoon-ah was cast in SBS mystery family drama Secret Mother.
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Song Yoon-ah then starred in JTBC's 2020 pre-produced 19+ age-restricted series Graceful Friends.
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Song Yoon-ah was cast in Channel A's series for the first time with melodrama mystery Show Window: The Queen's House.
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Song Yoon-ah married actor Sul Kyung-gu on May 28,2009 in a Catholic church in Bangbae-dong followed by a reception at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in Seoul.
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In 2014, Song Yoon-ah filed a defamation suit against 57 netizens who spread online rumors that she began having an extramarital affair with Sul in 2002 while he was still married to his first wife and was the cause of their divorce in 2006.
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Sul and Song Yoon-ah have denied these rumors, stating that their relationship started in 2007.