19 Facts About Youn Yuh-jung

Youn Yuh-jung has starred in many South Korean television series and films.

Youn Yuh-jung gained international recognition for her critically acclaimed role as Soon-ja in Minari.

Youn Yuh-jung became first Korean actress to win a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Independent Spirit Award, a British Academy Film Award, and an Academy Award, as well as the first to be nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award, all for Best Supporting Actress.

Youn Yuh-jung retired from the spotlight for several years before returning to acting in the late 1980s.

Besides Woman of Fire and Minari, Youn Yuh-jung is known for her work in the South Korean films The Housemaid, The Taste of Money, The Bacchus Lady, and Canola.

Youn Yuh-jung was born on June 19,1947, in Kaesong, southern Korea.

Youn Yuh-jung is the eldest daughter of a family with three daughters.

Youn Yuh-jung attended Changsin Elementary School and later Ewha Girls' High School in Seoul, South Korea.

Youn Yuh-jung shot to stardom in 1971 with two memorable portrayals of femme fatales.

Youn Yuh-jung continued playing supporting roles in film and television, such as in The Housemaid.

Later in the year, Youn Yuh-jung appeared in her first reality show Sisters Over Flowers, a travel show shot in Croatia.

Youn Yuh-jung starred in two leading roles in 2015: Kang Je-gyu's Salut d'Amour about the romance between an elderly supermarket employee and a flower shop owner, and Canola about a Jeju Island female diver who reunites with her long-lost granddaughter.

Youn Yuh-jung went on to become the first Korean actress to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Youn Yuh-jung was the first Asian actress to win an acting award in the motion pictures categories at the Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as the first Korean actress to win an Academy Award and first Asian actress to win an Academy Award since 1958 when Miyoshi Umeki won Best Supporting Actress for Sayonara.

Later, in January 2023, Youn Yuh-jung signed with Creative Artists Agency.

Youn Yuh-jung worked at a supermarket for $2.75 an hour to raise her two sons in St Petersburg, Florida.

Youn Yuh-jung returned to Korea in 1984 and divorced her husband three years afterwards.

Youn Yuh-jung has two sons, both of whom are Korean Americans and have Korean Citizenship and US Citizenship.

Youn Yuh-jung's sister Youn Yeo-soon is a former executive at LG Group.