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Bae Doona is a Actor Sud coréenne born on 11 october 1979 at Seoul (Coree du sud)

Bae Doona

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Birth name 배두나
Nationality Coree du sud
Birth 11 october 1979 (44 years) at Seoul (Coree du sud)

Bae Doona (Hangul: 배두나; [pɛduna]; born October 11, 1979) is a South Korean actress and photographer. Bae first became known outside Korea for her roles as the protagonist's political activist girlfriend Cha Young-mi in Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), as archer Park Nam-joo in Bong Joon-ho's The Host (2006), and as an inflatable sex doll-come-to-life in Hirokazu Koreeda's Air Doll (2009). She then had English-speaking roles in various works of The Wachowskis, including the films Cloud Atlas (2012) and Jupiter Ascending (2015), and the TV series Sense8 (2015).

Biography

Carrière cinématographique
Bae Doona suit rapidement les traces de sa mère, Kim Hwa-young, célèbre actrice de théâtre dans son pays, l'accompagnant lors de ses répétitions et de ses représentations, et apprenant même ses textes. Elle déclara pourtant un jour, lors d'une interview : « Les gens pensent que je suis devenue actrice grâce à ma mère. Mais pour moi, cela a sans doute eu l'effet inverse. Au contraire, en voyant tous ces grands acteurs travailler avec ma mère, je pensais que c'était un métier seulement réservé aux personnes possédant un talent extraordinaire ».

Au cours de l'année 1998, alors qu'elle était étudiante à l'université d'Hanyang, Bae Doona est repérée par une agence de mannequins. La même année, elle fait ses débuts en tant qu'actrice à la télévision pour la série Angel's Kiss. Peu après, elle décrochera son premier rôle au cinéma dans le film d'horreur Ring Virus, remake coréen du film d'horreur japonais Ring.

En 2000, le réalisateur Bong Joon-ho fait appel à elle pour son premier film, Barking Dogs Never Bite, dans lequel elle jouera sans maquillage, ce à quoi la majorité des actrices coréennes ne pouvaient pas consentir.



Elle poursuivra avec deux autres succès critiques, Take Care of My Cat en 2001 et Sympathy for Mister Vengeance en 2002, pour lesquels elle recevra de nombreuses distinctions.

L'année 2003 fut le creux de la vague pour l'actrice, car Tube et Spring Bears Love furent deux échecs cuisants au box-office. À la suite de cela, elle décida de prendre du recul et de mettre sa carrière entre parenthèses. Profitant de son temps libre, Bae Doona se prend de passion pour la photographie, publiant ses clichés sur son blog et dans plusieurs livres. Elle reviendra sur le devant de la scène en 2004, mais cette fois-ci sur les planches, pour la pièce Sunday Seoul, qu'elle coécrit avec Park Chan-wook, qui l'avait déjà fait tourner en 2002 dans Sympathy for Mister Vengeance.

Deux ans plus tard après son absence à l'écran, elle annonce son retour en tenant le rôle principal dans le film japonais Linda Linda Linda aux côtés de Aki Maeda, Keisuke Koide et Ken'ichi Matsuyama et en 2006, elle est à nouveau dirigée par Bong Joon-ho dans The Host, qui reste encore à ce jour un des plus grands succès de tous les temps au box-office sud-coréen.

Elle reçoit en 2009 les éloges pour son rôle dans le film japonais Air Doll de Hirokazu Kore-eda, film qui fera d'ailleurs partie de la sélection officielle du festival de Cannes 2009. Le film est basé sur le manga Kuuki Ningyo de Yoshiie Goda.

Elle fait ses débuts en 2012 dans le cinéma hollywoodien dans le film germano-américain Cloud Atlas, le nouveau film des créatrices de la trilogie Matrix et du réalisateur de Cours, Lola, cours, aux côtés de Halle Berry, Tom Hanks ou encore Hugh Grant. Les Wachowski ont envoyé un script à la fin de mars 2011. Une semaine plus tard, elle les a contacté en liaison vidéo et elles lui ont demandé d'envoyer beaucoup de vidéos de son jeu en rapport avec les scènes à partir du script. Elle a déclaré à ce sujet : « Mon frère, qui dirige des publicités, m'a filmée dans ma chambre et l'a envoyé aux Wachowski et ils sont devenus soudainement très intéressés. »Elle joue le rôle du clone Sonmi~451 ainsi que des rôles mineurs tels que Tilda Ewing, la femme d'un abolitionniste en pré-guerre civile en Amérique, et une femme mexicaine qui croise la route d'un assassin. Le film a été adapté du roman Cartographie des nuages de l'auteur britannique David Mitchell.

De retour en Corée du Sud, elle tient en 2014 le rôle de l'inspecteur Lee Young-nam qui essaie de sauver une jeune fille mystérieuse qu'elle soupçonne être victime de violence conjugale dans le film dramatique A Girl at My Door réalisé par July Jung. Lors de la lecture du script, elle a été fascinée par l'histoire et le rôle émotionnellement difficile qu'elle a décidé de jouer dans le film sans salaire pendant trois heures.

En 2015, elle collabore pour la deuxième fois avec les Wachowski pour Jupiter : Le Destin de l'univers, dans lequel elle a joué un petit second rôle en tant que chasseuse de primes. Ensuite, en septembre, elle commence le tournage de la série télévisée américaine de science-fiction Sense8 créée par les Wachowski et Joseph Michael Straczynski. Puis elle joue dans une comédie romantique franco-belge tournée à Séoul, dont la sortie est prévue en février 2020 ; intitulée #iamhere, elle est réalisée par Éric Lartigau. Bae Doona y a pour partenaire l'acteur français Alain Chabat.


Vie privée
Bae Doona entame une relation avec l'acteur sud-coréen, Shin Ha-kyun, son partenaire du film Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance de 2002 à 2004.

Elle a fréquenté l'acteur britannique Jim Sturgess, son partenaire avec qui elle a joué dans le film Cloud Atlas. Les rumeurs sur leur relation avait commencé en février 2013 mais le couple a ni nié ni reconnu leur relation jusqu'en mai 2014 pendant le festival de Cannes. Doona était à Cannes lorsque le film A Girl at My Door a été présenté dans la section Un certain regard du festival de Cannes et Jim Sturgess a fait une visite surprise à l'événement pour lui apporter son soutien. Dans une interview avec les médias coréens, Bae Doona confirme bien sa relation avec l'acteur britannique. Le 12 mars 2015, l'agence de Bae Doona annonce leur séparation.

Best films

Cloud Atlas (2012)
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Filmography of Bae Doona (18 films)

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Actress

The Drug King, 2h19
Directed by Woo Min-ho
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Song Kang-ho, Jo Jung-suk, Bae Doona, Lee Sung-min, Lee Hee-joon, Yoon Je-moon
Roles Kim Jeong-ah
Rating62% 3.101613.101613.101613.101613.10161
Le film raconte l'ascension et la chute de Lee Doo-sam (Song Kang-ho), un petit malfrat de Busan, qui commence par aider un groupe de trafiquants de drogues rencontré par hasard. Astucieux et plein d'idées, il intègre ce milieu, gravit peu à peu les échelons de la mafia et développe son propre trafic, jusqu'à bâtir un empire de la drogue du Japon à Busan. Il mène alors une double vie : homme respecté, promoteur du développement rural et national le jour, infâme seigneur de la drogue la nuit... jusqu'à sa chute, entraînant celle de nombreux complices, hauts fonctionnaires corrompus.
Tunnel
Tunnel (2016)
, 2h6
Directed by Kim Seong-hoon (réalisateur, né en 1971)
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Ha Jeong-woo, Bae Doona, Oh Dal-soo, Shin Jung-geun, Nam Ji-hyun, Kim Hae-sook
Roles Se-hyun
Rating68% 3.411613.411613.411613.411613.41161
Alors qu'il rentre chez lui en voiture, un homme est accidentellement enseveli sous un tunnel. Alors qu'une tentative de sauvetage d'envergure nationale se met en place, suivie et commentée par les médias, les politiques et les citoyens, l'homme joue sa vie avec le peu de moyens à sa disposition. Survivra-t-il ?
Jupiter Ascending, 2h7
Directed by Lana et Lilly Wachowski
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films about religion, Dans l'espace, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Channing Tatum, Sean Bean, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, Vanessa Kirby
Roles Razo
Rating53% 2.6524452.6524452.6524452.6524452.652445
At the beginning of the story, Earth's residents are unaware that the human species on Earth and countless other planets were established by families of transhuman and alien royalty for the purpose of later "harvesting" the resulting organisms to produce a type of youth serum for the elites on still other planets. After the death of the matriarch of the House of Abrasax, the most powerful of the alien dynasties, her children, Balem (Eddie Redmayne), Kalique (Tuppence Middleton), and Titus (Douglas Booth), quarrel over the inheritance, with Balem inheriting an enormous refinery on Jupiter and Titus declaring his intention to dismantle the youth serum trade, of which Earth is the next intended source. Protagonist Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) narrates that her father, Maximilian Jones (James D'Arcy), met her mother, Aleksa (Maria Doyle Kennedy), in Saint Petersburg. After Maximilian is killed in a robbery, Aleksa names their daughter Jupiter, after his favorite planet, and they move to Chicago to live with Aleksa's family.
A Girl at My Door, 1h59
Directed by July Jung
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Bae Doona, Kim Sae-ron, Song Sae-byeok, Jang Hee-jin, Moon Sung-keun, Park Jin-woo
Roles Yeong-nam
Rating69% 3.4931253.4931253.4931253.4931253.493125
Following a personal scandal, police academy instructor Lee Young-nam is transferred from Seoul to take office as chief of the police substation in a quiet seaside town in Yeosu. Young-nam keeps a low profile and tolerates the drunken excesses of the locals, but drinks heavily at home, decanting soju into water bottles.
Cloud Atlas, 2h52
Directed by Lana et Lilly Wachowski, Tom Tykwer
Origin German
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Clonage, Films about slavery, Seafaring films, Philosophie, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, LGBT-related films, Disaster films, LGBT-related film
Actors Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Götz Otto, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess
Roles Tilda / Megan's Mom / Mexican Woman / Sonmi-451 / Sonmi-351 / Sonmi Prostitute
Rating73% 3.6953353.6953353.6953353.6953353.695335
Adam Ewing, an American lawyer, has come to the Chatham Islands to conclude a business arrangement with Reverend Horrox and his father-in-law. While in Horrox's plantation, he witnesses the whipping of a Moriori slave, Autua, who later stows away on the ship. Autua confronts Ewing and convinces him to advocate for Autua to join the crew as a free man. Dr Henry Goose slowly poisons Ewing, claiming it to be the cure for a parasitic worm, to steal Ewing's valuables. As Goose administers the fatal dose, Autua saves Ewing. Returning to the United States, Ewing and his wife Tilda denounce her father's complicity in slavery and leave to join the abolition movement.
As One
As One (2012)
, 2h7
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films
Actors Ha Ji-won, Bae Doona, Han Ye-ri, Oh Jung-se, Choi Yoon-young, Lee Jong-suk
Roles Li Bun-hui
Rating72% 3.601293.601293.601293.601293.60129
Beijing, 11th Asian Games, autumn 1990. In the women's table tennis competition, North Korea's Ri Bun-hui (Bae Doona) faces off against South Korea's Hyun Jung-hwa (Ha Ji-won); Bun-hui loses, but Jung-hwa is beaten by China's Deng Yaping (Kim Jae-hwa), who takes the gold. Six months later, in Busan, Jung-hwa is finishing her preparation for the 41st World Table Tennis Championships, to be held in Chiba, Japan; aside from caring for her father in the hospital, she is under huge local pressure to win a gold medal this time. Just prior to leaving, it is announced that, following a North-South Summit, the North and South Korean teams will compete as a single unit for the first time, under a newly designed Korean Unification Flag and with a North Korean, Jo Nam-poong (Kim Eung-soo), as its chief trainer. In Chiba, quarrels and fights break out between the two, mutually suspicious sides, exacerbated by young Northern hothead Choi Kyung-sub (Lee Jong-suk) and Southern joker Oh Doo-man (Oh Jung-se). Jung-hwa shares a room with fellow player Choi Yeon-jung (Choi Yoon-young), who fancies Kyung-sub. Bun-hui rooms with Yu Sun-bok (Han Ye-ri) who suffers badly from competition nerves. During the trials for the women's team, Sun-bok performs poorly and steps down in favor of Jung-hwa for the good of the team. Now paired together, Jung-hwa and Bun-hui settle their differences as the players finally start to bond. As they train for 46 days, game-by-game, the two find a budding friendship. But as the finals versus the Chinese team looms, the Koreans' unity is threatened from another direction. When political winds change again and just as suddenly an announcement is made to disband team Korea, the two young women must prove to their people and the world that teamwork can outshine the dark shadows of a painful history.
Doomsday Book, 1h53
Directed by Kim Jee-woon, Yim Pil-sung
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Films about Buddhism, Dystopian films, Impact events in fiction, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Kang Dong-won, Ryoo Seung-bum, Kim Kang-woo, Kim Yoon-seok, Park Hae-il, Im Soo-jeong
Roles Park Min-seo
Rating58% 2.904822.904822.904822.904822.90482
(Hangul: 멋진 신세계; RR: Mutjin Sinsegye) Left alone after his parents go abroad on a holiday with his sister, geeky research scientist Yoon Seok-woo (Ryoo Seung-bum) disposes of the accumulated rubbish in the family flat, which includes a rotten apple. Via the waste disposal system, the apple enters the food chain via recycled feed for cows. Seok-woo and his date, Kim Yoo-min (Go Joon-hee), end up eating the toxic beef during a barbecue one evening, and soon they and the rest of the population become flesh-eating zombies.
Air Doll
Air Doll (2009)
, 2h5
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Bae Doona, Arata Iura, Itsuji Itao, Joe Odagiri, Sumiko Fuji, Susumu Terajima
Roles Nozomi
Rating69% 3.4502253.4502253.4502253.4502253.450225
Middle-aged Hideo lives alone with an inflatable sex doll he calls Nozomi. The doll is his closest companion; he dresses it up, talks to it over dinner, takes it out for walks in a wheelchair, and has sexual intercourse with it.
The Host
The Host (2006)
, 1h59
Directed by Bong Joon-ho
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Song Kang-ho, Park Hae-il, Bae Doona, Byun Hee-bong, Go Ah-seong, Scott Wilson
Roles Park Nam-joo
Rating70% 3.548833.548833.548833.548833.54883
In late 2000, an American military pathologist commands a reluctant Korean assistant to violate protocol by dumping over 200 bottles of formaldehyde down a drain leading into the Han River. Over the next few years, there are sightings of a strange amphibious creature in the waterway, and the fish in the Han River are dying off because of water pollution. A suicidal businessman, just before jumping off a bridge into the river, sees something dark moving under the surface of the water.
Linda Linda Linda, 1h54
Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yuu Kashii, Kenichi Matsuyama, Lily, Pierre Taki
Roles Son
Rating74% 3.745113.745113.745113.745113.74511
A group of high school girls have formed a band to perform at their high school cultural festival in three days' time, but the guitarist and singer have quit. The remaining members, Kei Tachibana (立花恵, Tachibana Kei), Kyoko Yamada (山田 響子, Yamada Kyōko), and Nozomi Shirakawa (白河望, Shirakawa Nozomi), decide to perform covers of Blue Hearts songs, but need to find a new singer. They ask the first girl that walks by: Son (ソン), a Korean exchange student who is not fluent in Japanese. The first day ends with all the girls working their hardest to learn their parts. Son practices at a karaoke parlor, and Kyoko talks to her crush, Kazuya Oe (大江一也, Ōe Kazuya).
Tube
Tube (2003)
, 1h58
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Bae Doona, Kim Suk Hoon, Kwon Oh-joong, Gi Ju-bong, Jung Joon, Han Jung-soo
Roles Kay
Rating54% 2.7052152.7052152.7052152.7052152.705215
Detective Jang Do-joon (Kim Suk-hoon) who does not know the meaning of giving up, is hot on the trail of Kang Gi-taek, a deadly terrorist. Kang Gi-taek (Park Sang-min) was an elite secret agent for the government's intelligence agency before getting tossed out for assassinating a key figure.
Spring Bears Love, 1h38
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Bae Doona, Kim Nam-jin, Yoon Ji-hye, Oh Kwang-rok, Kwon Oh-joong, Uhm Tae-woong
Roles Jeong Hyun-jae
Rating58% 2.9497952.9497952.9497952.9497952.949795
A young woman named Hyun-chae is on train looking through an art book. As she turns the pages, she discovers a written message underneath a picture of bears playing together in the springtime. She reads:
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, 2h9
Directed by Park Chan-wook
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, Bae Doona, Im Ji-eun, Jung Jae-young, Lee Kan-hee
Roles Yeong-mi
Rating74% 3.749533.749533.749533.749533.74953
Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun), is a deaf-mute man working in a factory to support his ailing sister (Im Ji-eun), who is in desperate need of a kidney transplant. As Ryu is not a match, and he is laid off from his job, Ryu contacts a black market organ dealer, and agrees to exchange his severance money and one of his own kidneys in exchange for a matching one. The dealers perform the operation, but disappear after taking Ryu's kidney and money. Three weeks later, Ryu learns from his doctor that a donor has been found, but Ryu is unable to afford the operation now.
Saving My Hubby, 1h31
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Bae Doona, Kim Tae-woo, Joo Hyun, Han Ji-hye, Go Doo-shim, Ahn Gil-kang
Roles Jung Geum-Soon
Rating63% 3.188023.188023.188023.188023.18802
Due to an unplanned pregnancy, twenty-something former volleyball star Geum-soon is now a married housewife with a young daughter. Her husband, Joo-tae, is starting the first day of his new job, when Geum-soon receives word that her in-laws are going to visit the following morning. While she struggles to get their house ready, Joo-tae is taken out for a drink with his new colleagues. Later that evening, Geum-soon gets a phone call from a nightclub owner who is holding her husband hostage, claiming that he has run up a huge bill and does not have the money to pay for it. Strapping her baby to her back, Geum-soon sets out to rescue her husband.
Take Care of My Cat, 1h52
Directed by Jeong Jae-eun
Genres Drama
Actors Bae Doona, Lee Yo-won, Moon Jung-hee, Kim Kwang-kyu
Roles Yu Tae-hie
Rating70% 3.545153.545153.545153.545153.54515
Five girlfriends in their early twenties live in the dingy port town of Incheon. A close-knit circle in high school, their paths begin to diverge as they step into the adult world.