Youn Yuh-jung is a South Korean actress, whose career in film and television spans over five decades.
19 Facts About Youn Yuh-jung
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Youn Yuh-jung's accolades include an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Independent Spirit Awards, and a nomination for a Critics' Choice Movie Award.
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Youn Yuh-jung has starred in many South Korean television series and films.
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Youn Yuh-jung gained international recognition for her role in Minari.
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Youn Yuh-jung's critically acclaimed portrayal of Soon-ja in the film made her the 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 in the Best Supporting Actress category.
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Youn Yuh-jung retired from the spotlight for several years before returning to acting in the late 1980s.
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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.
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Youn Yuh-jung is known for her matriarch roles in the South Korean family drama series Men of the Bath House, Be Strong Geum Soon, Daughters-in-Law, My Husband Got a Family, and Dear My Friends.
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Youn Yuh-jung Yuh jung was born on June 19,1947 in Kaesong, Gyeonggi Province, and grew up in Seoul.
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Youn Yuh-jung's sister Youn Yeo-soon is a former executive at LG Group.
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Youn Yuh-jung attended high school at Ewha Girls' High School, and enrolled at Hanyang University majoring in Korean Language and Literature, when she passed the open auditions held by TBC in 1966.
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Youn Yuh-jung dropped out of college, and made her acting debut in the television drama Mister Gom in 1967.
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Youn Yuh-jung shot to stardom in 1971 with two memorable portrayals of femme fatales.
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Youn Yuh-jung continued playing supporting roles in film and television, such as in The Housemaid.
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Later in the year, Youn Yuh-jung appeared in her first reality show Sisters Over Flowers, a travel show shot in Croatia.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Later, in January 2023, Youn Yuh-jung signed with Creative Artists Agency.