1. Uhm Tae-woong was born on April 5,1974 and is a South Korean actor.
20 Facts About Uhm Tae-woong
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Uhm Tae-woong made his acting debut in 1998, but initially struggled to emerge from under the shadow of his older sister, popular singer-actress Uhm Jung-hwa.
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Uhm Tae-woong was unsure which college course to take, so he initially joined Kyungmin College's theater department because his crush was there.
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Uhm Tae-woong made his acting debut in 1998 at the age of 24, and began playing bit parts and supporting roles in films, television dramas and music videos.
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Uhm Tae-woong began his rise to popularity with the 2005 romantic comedy series Sassy Girl Chun-hyang, a modern retelling of the classic Korean folktale Chunhyangjeon.
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Uhm Tae-woong had originally been cast as the antagonist, but after lead actor Park Yong-woo dropped out three weeks before filming due to scheduling conflicts, director Park Chan-hong took a risk and cast Uhm as the protagonist.
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Uhm Tae-woong's growing fanbase nicknamed him "the UhmForce", and he received an Excellence Award from the 2005 KBS Drama Awards and a Best TV Actor nomination from the 2006 Baeksang Arts Awards.
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Uhm Tae-woong moved on to Stranger Than Paradise, in which he played the manager of a singer, the same woman his long-lost brother falls in love with.
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Uhm Tae-woong joined the ensemble cast of Kim Tae-yong's critically acclaimed film Family Ties, playing a reckless but charming man who suddenly shows up at his sister's door with a live-in partner 20 years his senior.
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In 2007, Uhm Tae-woong, reunited with Resurrection's director Park Chan-hong and writer Kim Ji-woo in Lucifer, the second in Park and Kim's noir vengeance trilogy that explore the conflict between good and evil, and sin and punishment.
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Uhm Tae-woong gave another memorable lead performance as a detective hunting down a serial killer while attempting to atone for his past.
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In Yim Soon-rye's sleeper hit Forever the Moment, Uhm Tae-woong played the tough coach of the National Women's Handball Team.
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In 2009, Uhm Tae-woong played a celebrity manager who is threatened by an unknown man and driven to the extremes in Handphone.
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Uhm Tae-woong then starred as 7th-century Silla general Kim Yushin in the popular period drama Queen Seondeok, for which he received a Top Excellence Award at the 2009 MBC Drama Awards.
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Romantic comedy Cyrano Agency was the 8th most commercially successful Korean film of 2010, and in it, Uhm Tae-woong played a theater actor-turned-dating coach whose ex-girlfriend is being pursued by his client.
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In 2012, Uhm Tae-woong played one half of a quirky terminally ill couple in Never Ending Story, and an architect building his first love's house in Architecture 101.
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Uhm Tae-woong returned to television in another revenge-themed drama, Man from the Equator.
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Uhm Tae-woong drew praise for his performance as a blind man, and received an Excellence Award from the 2012 KBS Drama Awards, as well as a Best TV Actor nomination from the 2013 Baeksang Arts Awards.
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Uhm Tae-woong then reunited with Man from the Equator director Kim Yong-soo in The Blade and Petal, a period drama set in Goguryeo.
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Uhm Tae-woong played a manager who dreams of becoming an actor.