Lee Jung-jae
Lee Jung-jae (이정재) is a South Korean actor. Born on March 15, 1973, he began modeling in 1993 before getting his first acting roles the film The Young Man (1994) and the TV series Feelings (1994) and Sandglass (1995), which is one of the highest rated Korean dramas of all time with a peak rating of 64.5%. But his real breakthrough was with leading roles in award-winning films The Affair (1998) and City of the Rising Sun (1999). The latter of which earned him the Best Actor award at the prestigious Blue Dragon film awards. This was followed by a series of critical hits like Il Mare (2000) and commercial successes including Last Present (2001), The Last Witness (2001), Oh Brothers (2003), and the blockbuster Typhoon (2005). After a brief career slump of flop movies and tv shows, he returned with the critical and commercial hit The Housemaid (2010), which is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name. Since then, he went on to cement himself as one of Korea's biggest movie stars with a string of some of the biggest blockbusters in Korean history including The Thieves (2012), New World (2013), The Face Reader (2013), Assassination (2015), Operation Chromite (2016), and the Along with the Gods films (2017-2018). Most of these films did north of 12 million admissions at the domestic box-office, with The Thieves (2012) and Along with the Gods (2017) becoming the #2 biggest Korean hit in history at their respective time of release. He received a number of awards and nominations for these works including a Popularity Award at the prestigious Grand Bell awards. His most recent blockbuster is Deliver Us From Evil (2020) in which he reunited with his New World (2013) co-star Hwang Jung-min. It crossed 4 million admissions domestically and was the second biggest hit of the year in Korea.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Revolver as Lim Seok-yong
- 2024 · The Acolyte as Master Sol
- 2023 · Ground of Honor: Rondo as Beta
- 2022 · Just an Excuse as Self
- 2022 · Hunt as Park Pyong-ho
- 2022 · Blue Dragon Series Awards as Self
- 2022 · Civilization Express - The Great Feast of Movies as Self
- 2021 · Squid Game as Seong Gi-hun
- 2021 · Squid Game as Seong Gi-hun / 'No. 456'
- 2021 · Meenoi's Yorizori as Self
- 2021 · The Game Caterers as Self
- 2020 · Delayed Justice as Jang Tae-Jun
- 2020 · Deliver Us from Evil as Ray
- 2019 · Modern Korea as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · Chief of Staff as Jang Tae-Joon
- 2019 · Trade Your Love as Lawyer (cameo)
- 2019 · Svaha: The Sixth Finger as Pastor Park Ung-jae
- 2018 · You Quiz On The Block as Self
- 2018 · Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days as King Yeomra
- 2018 · Movie Room as Self
- 2017 · Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds as King Yeomra
- 2017 · Warriors of the Dawn as Tow
- 2016 · Operation Chromite as Jang Hak-soo
- 2016 · Tik Tok as Kang Seung-joon
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Assassination as Yeom Seok-jin
- 2014 · Big Match as Choi Ik-ho
- 2013 · The Face Reader as Grand Prince Soo-yang
- 2013 · New World as Lee Ja-sung
- 2012 · The Thieves as Popie
- 2012 · El Fin del Mundo as He
- 2010 · The Housemaid as Hoon
- 2009 · Triple as Shin Hwal
- 2008 · The Accidental Gangster as Cheon-doong
- 2007 · Air City as Kim Ji-sung
- 2005 · Typhoon as Gang Se-jong
- 2003 · Oh! Brothers as Oh Sang-woo
- 2002 · Over the Rainbow as Lee Jin-soo
- 2001 · The Last Witness as Detective Oh
- 2001 · MOB 2025 as Dust
- 2001 · Last Present as Jung Yong-gi
- 2000 · Asako in Ruby Shoes as Woo-in
- 2000 · Il Mare as Han Sung-hyun
- 2000 · Interview as Eun-seok
- 1999 · The Uprising as Yi Jae-su
- 1999 · City of the Rising Sun as Hong-ki
- 1998 · An Affair as Woo In
- 1998 · White Nights 3.98 as Lee Young-jun
- 1997 · 달팽이 as Dong-cheol
- 1997 · Park vs Park as Park Su-sok
- 1997 · Firebird as Young-hoo
- 1996 · Albatross as Pyeong-san
- 1995 · 사랑은 블루 as Na Jae-sung
- 1995 · Sandglass as Baek Jae-hee
- 1994 · The Young Man as Lee Han
- 1994 · Feelings as Joon
- 1993 · 공룡선생 as Jung-jae
- 1993 · Love is Oh Yeah! as Blackguard 3
- 2024 · Ray as Ray