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Lee Sun-kyun is a Actor Sud coréen born on 2 march 1975 at Seoul (Coree du sud)

Lee Sun-kyun

Lee Sun-kyun
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Nationality Coree du sud
Birth 2 march 1975 at Seoul (Coree du sud)
Death 27 december 2023 (at 48 years)

Lee Sun-kyun (born March 2, 1975) is a South Korean actor. After beginning his career in musical theatre, for many years Lee was relegated to minor and supporting roles onscreen, only getting to play lead characters in one-act dramas on KBS Drama City and MBC Best Theater. In one such Best Theater project, he worked with TV director Lee Yoon-jung on Taereung National Village (2005), which led to him being cast in her later series The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince in 2007. Coffee Prince, along with medical drama White Tower brought Lee mainstream popularity, which he followed with Pasta (2010) and Golden Time (2012).

Meanwhile on the big screen, he received a Best Actor award from the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival for his role in Paju (2009), followed by critical acclaim for mystery thriller Helpless (2012), romantic comedy All About My Wife (2012), and crime/black comedy A Hard Day (2014). Lee also continues to collaborate with auteur Hong Sang-soo, and his arthouse films with Hong include Night and Day (2008), Oki's Movie (2010), and Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013).

Biography

Lee married his girlfriend of seven years, actress Jeon Hye-jin (I'm Sorry, I Love You, The Naked Kitchen) on May 23, 2009.

Their sons were born on November 25, 2009, and August 9, 2011.

Best films

Parasite
Parasite
(2019)
(Actor)

Usually with

Hong Sang-soo
Hong Sang-soo
(4 films)
Gi Ju-bong
Gi Ju-bong
(4 films)
Bong Joon-ho
Bong Joon-ho
(1 films)
Kim Bo-kyung
Kim Bo-kyung
(3 films)
Joo Jin-mo
Joo Jin-mo
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Lee Sun-kyun (25 films)

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Actor

Parasite
Parasite (2019)
, 2h11
Directed by Martin Scorsese, Bong Joon-ho, Uwe Boll
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Jang Hye-jin, Park So-dam
Roles Park Dong-ik
Rating85% 4.2500654.2500654.2500654.2500654.250065
Toute la famille de Ki-taek est au chômage. Un jour, leur fils réussit à se faire recommander pour donner des cours particuliers d’anglais chez les Park, une famille richissime dont le mode de vie est en tous points opposé au leur. C’est le début d’un engrenage incontrôlable.
Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage
Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage (2019)
, 2h7
Directed by Lee Jeong-beom
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Lee Sun-kyun, Park Hae-joon, Jung Ga-ram
Roles Jo Pil-ho
Rating63% 3.192863.192863.192863.192863.19286
Jo Pil-ho, un flic malhonnête (Lee Seon-gyeon) habitué des vols de distributeur de billets et visé par une enquête interne, se retrouve malgré lui au cœur des intrigues d'une grande multinationale coréenne. L'influence de celle-ci va jusqu'au cœur du système du pays grâce à un système de bourse universitaire de lycéens dont les anciens bénéficiaires se retrouvent aujourd'hui à des postes très élevés comme le procureur en chef. S'étant pris d'affection pour une ado rebelle (Jeon So-ni), elle aussi impliquée dans les affaires de la société, Pil-ho choisit de lutter à son niveau contre le groupe et son terrible homme de main (Park Hae-joon ) chargé des basses besognes.
Take Point
Take Point (2018)
, 2h4
Directed by Kim Byeong-u
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Ha Jeong-woo, Jennifer Ehle, Lee Sun-kyun, Kevin Durand, Spencer Daniels, Malik Yoba
Roles Yoon Ji-eui
Rating55% 2.751292.751292.751292.751292.75129
Durant l'élection présidentielle américaine de 2024, Ahab (Ha Jeong-woo) et son groupe de mercenaires d'élite appartenant à la société militaire privée Black Lizard acceptent une mission secrète de la CIA. L'opération consiste à kidnapper un haut-fonctionnaire nord-coréen désigné King qui se trouve dans un immense bunker à 30 mètres sous la zone démilitarisée. L'équipe d'Ahab mène l'assaut et s'empare de sa cible qui se révèle être le chef suprême de la Corée du Nord. Alors qu'Ahab et son équipe entament leur exfiltration, ils sont assaillis par des commandos lourdement armés qui leur coupent toute retraite.
The King's Case Note
The King's Case Note (2017)
, 1h54
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Hee-won, Kyung Soo-jin, Joo Jin-mo, Jang Young-nam, Kim Eung-soo
Roles King Yejong of Joseon
Rating64% 3.2029753.2029753.2029753.2029753.202975
Le roi Yejong (Lee Sun-kyun) est intelligent. Bien qu'il soit roi, il essaie de traiter les affaires par lui-même. Son sujet Yi-Seo (Ahn Jae-hong ) est responsable des archives historiques et lui pose de nombreux problèmes en multipliant les actions stupides.
The King's Case Note
The King's Case Note (2017)
, 1h42
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors Lee Sun-kyun, Ma Dong-seok, Ji Chang-Wook, Kim Hee-won, Kyung Soo-jin, Joo Jin-mo
Roles King Yejong of Joseon
Rating61% 3.055533.055533.055533.055533.05553
Lee Seok-bong (Ma Dong-seok) est un professeur d'histoire fauché rêvant de grandes découvertes archéologiques et son jeune frère Lee Joo-bong (Lee Dong-hwi ), un cadre prometteur d'une entreprise spécialisée dans les travaux publics, se retrouvent à l'enterrement de leur père dans leur ville natale d'Andong. Cependant, Seok-bong en a seulement après les reliques à la maison qui pourraient lui faire de l'argent, tandis que Joo-bong en a après un contrat de construction d'autoroute pour son entreprise. En route, les frères renversent une mystérieuse femme nommée Aurora (Lee Ha-nui ) qui perd la mémoire après l'accident. Au fil du temps, les frères découvrent les secrets de leur famille avec cette femme qu'ils n'avaient jamais vu.
A Hard Day
A Hard Day (2014)
, 1h51
Directed by Kim Seong-hoon (réalisateur, né en 1971)
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Thriller, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Lee Sun-kyun, Jo Jin-woong, Jung Man-sik, Shin Jung-geun, Kim Bo-kyung, Lee Ji-hoon
Roles Go Gun-su
Rating71% 3.598243.598243.598243.598243.59824
Homicide detective Ko Gun-su is having a hard day. His mother has just died, and he and his colleagues are being investigated by the internal affairs over bribery charges. Then on his way to his mother's funeral, he drives recklessly and commits a fatal hit and run. He tries to cover-up the accident by hiding the man's corpse in his deceased mother's coffin. But someone has been watching all along, and Gun-su gets a mysterious call from a person claiming that he was the sole witness to the crime, who now begins to blackmail him.
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)
, 1h30
Directed by Hong Sang-soo
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about education, Films about sexuality
Actors Jung Eun-chae, Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Ja-ok, Ye Ji-won, Yoo Jun-sang, Ryu Deok-hwan
Roles Seong-jun
Rating66% 3.342573.342573.342573.342573.34257
On March 21, 2012, on the way to having lunch with her mother Jin-joo (Kim Ja-ok) in Seochon (West Village; Hangul: 서촌), Jongno District, Seoul, film student and aspiring actress Haewon (Jung Eun-chae) bumps into French actress-singer Jane Birkin in the street and gets her autograph. Birkin says how much Haewon resembles her own daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, which pleases Haewon enormously. Immediately afterwards we find out that this meeting was actually a dream, one of several that Haewon is shown to have during the film. Haewon's mother is about to emigrate to Canada and stay with her brother, and asks Haewon about her future plans. Afterwards Haewon walks to Jongno Public Library, past Yoomyung-jang (lit. Hotel Famous) that has special memories for her. Later, in nearby Sajik Park, she meets her married ex-lover Lee Seong-joon (Lee Sun-kyun), a film director who is also her professor at college. They pass a restaurant, where they have already been spotted by his students, and decide to go in and have a meal with them. When Haewon is away from the table, the other students starts gossiping about how she is not pure Korean and comes from a wealthy family.
Our Sunhi
Our Sunhi (2013)
, 1h29
Directed by Hong Sang-soo
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Jeong Yu-mi, Kim Sang-jung, Jeong Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Jung Jae-young, Lee Min-woo
Roles Kim Mun-su
Rating66% 3.3439053.3439053.3439053.3439053.343905
Sunhi (Jung Yu-mi) is a recent film school graduate who returns to her alma mater to solicit a recommendation letter from her former professor, Choi Donghyun (Kim Sang-joong), because she wishes to apply for a post-graduate course in America. At first Donghyun tries to dissuade her, stressing the value of practical experience over theory, but he finally agrees, with one caveat: He can only write an "honest" letter, and if it doesn't satisfy her, she is free not to use it. In the letter, Donghyun states that Sunhi is artistically inclined and a good person, but he also implies that she's introverted, weak and never shows her real mettle.
Helpless
Helpless (2012)
, 1h57
Directed by Byun Young-joo, Byun Young-joo
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Jang Hyuk, Kim Min-hee, Lee Sun-kyun, Soo Ae, Kim Min-hee, Jo Sung-ha
Roles Jang Moon-ho
Rating67% 3.353733.353733.353733.353733.35373
South Korea, 2009. A few days before their wedding, veterinarian Jang Mun-ho (Lee Sun-kyun) and his fiancee Kang Seon-yeong (Kim Min-hee) pull over for coffee at a motorway rest stop on the way to visiting his parents in Andong, southeast of Seoul. However, when Mun-ho returns to the car, Seon-yeong has disappeared and is not reachable on her mobile phone. All he can find is a hairpin in the rest stop's toilet. From the mess at her flat in Seoul, it looks as if there has been a break-in. Mystified, Mun-ho then learns from a banker friend, Dong-woo (Kim Min-jae), that Seon-yeong had earlier applied for a bank account but had been turned down when it was discovered she had a history of personal bankruptcy dating back to 2007. Investigating her debt history, Mun-ho finds she had been using someone else's name and identity. He persuades his cousin, Kim Jong-geun (Jo Sung-ha), a former police detective sacked for taking bribes, to help find her. Examining her flat, Jong-geun finds she left no fingerprints, had no friends and claimed her mother died two years ago. It then turns out that the woman (Cha Soo-yeon) whose identity she assumed two years ago had a debt history and has since vanished. Visiting Seon-yeong's hometown, Jong-geun hears rumors she killed her mother for her insurance money. Seon-yeong's real name is, in fact, Cha Gyeong-seon, and Jong-geun and Mun-ho realize she is now looking to take on another woman's identity. They think they know her possible target.
All About My Wife
All About My Wife (2012)
, 2h1
Directed by Min Gyoo-dong
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Im Soo-jeong, Lee Sun-kyun, Ryoo Seung-ryong, Lee Kwang-soo, Lee Sung-min, Kim Jung-tae
Roles Lee Du-hyeon
Rating65% 3.298323.298323.298323.298323.29832
After seven years of marriage, mild-mannered Doo-hyun (Lee Sun-kyun) is at the end of his rope. Jung-in (Im Soo-jung), his wife, is beautiful, sexy, and a fantastic cook, but drives her husband crazy with her endless nagging and complaining. He can’t even bring himself to ask for a divorce because of the fights that will follow. When Doo-hyun’s company transfers him out of state, it seems like his dream of getting away is coming true. But to his horror, Jung-in surprises him by moving across the country to be with him. Desperate but too afraid to ask for a divorce, Doo-hyun recruits his next-door neighbor and legendary Casanova Sung-ki (Ryu Seung-ryong) to seduce his wife and make her leave him first. After scoping her out, Sung-ki is intrigued by the challenge and confidently agrees to seduce Jung-in as his career finale. Meanwhile, to give her something to do, Doo-hyun has already arranged for Jung-in to get a spot on the local radio station, shooting her mouth off about life's injustices. True to his reputation, Sung-ki eventually succeeds in grabbing Jung-in’s attention, and the two slowly develop feelings for each other. But though Doo-hyun asked for it, he grows to regret his decision and decides to spy on his wife and her lover.
Oki's Movie
Oki's Movie (2010)
, 1h20
Directed by Hong Sang-soo
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about education, Films about sexuality
Actors Lee Sun-kyun, Jeong Yu-mi, Moon Sung-keun
Roles Jin-gu
Rating67% 3.393693.393693.393693.393693.39369
A Day for Incantation (Hangul: 주문을 외울날): In Seoul, winter, the present day. On his way to a screening of one of his films, struggling shorts director Nam Jin-gu (Lee Sun-kyun) is nagged by his wife Jang Su-yang (Seo Yeong-hwa) about his drinking, and he wonders if she is having an affair with a guy called Yeong-su. Nam's onetime professor at film school, Song (Moon Sung-keun), tells him that filmmaking as an art is now dead. Nam remembers his first meeting with his wife, then an impressionable amateur photographer, on a park bench. At a dinner with film-school staff, Nam gets drunk and into a quarrel with Song, about whom he's heard a disquieting rumor. Afterwards, at the Q&A for his film, Nam is asked by a member of the audience (Lee Chae-eun) whether it's true he was dating the actress at the time and is therefore responsible for ruining her life. Nam says he has quit directing.
Petty Romance
Petty Romance (2010)
, 1h58
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Choi Kang-hee, Lee Sun-kyun, Oh Jung-se, Ryu Hyun-kyung, Jo Eun-ji, Lee Won-jong
Roles Jeong-bae
Rating62% 3.1485653.1485653.1485653.1485653.148565
Seoul, the present day. In need of money to redeem a treasured family portrait, struggling manhwa artist Jeong Bae takes part in a publishing company's competition for an adult manga with a prize of ₩130 million (US$100,000). Advised that his big weakness is his story-writing, Jeong Bae advertises for a professional writer and ends up hiring the self-important Han Da-rim, with whom he agrees to split the prize money 50-50 if they win. Unknown to Jeong Bae, Da-rim recently lost her job as a sex columnist at magazine Hot Girl — edited by her friend Ma Kyung-sun — where she compensated for her lack of experience with men by copying material from the Kama Sutra to the Kinsey Reports. For the manhwa competition, Da-rim comes up with the idea of a female assassin, Ma Mi-so, who keeps her male victims captive for erotic kicks; without telling Jeong Bae, she models the victim on her twin brother, womanising Han Jong-soo, who shares a flat with her and cannot wait for her to move out. She finally does, which leads Jeong Bae's friend (and fellow competitor) Hae-ryong, who has secretly bugged his flat, to believe they're having an affair. However, from her unrealistic sex scenes, Jeong Bae gradually comes to suspect that Da-rim has never actually "done it", and then realizes she's developed a crush on him.
Paju
Paju (2009)
, 1h50
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Lee Sun-kyun, Seo Woo, Shim Yi-young, Han Ye-ri, Kim Bo-kyung, Lee Geung-young
Roles Kim Joong-sik
Rating64% 3.23823.23823.23823.23823.2382
Twenty-something Eun-mo listens to a taxi driver drone on as she rides down a foggy highway. The story then cycles back eight years earlier, when a lustful Joong-shik accidentally causes a woman to neglect her baby with disastrous consequences. Suffering from guilt, Joong-shik goes on the lam and holes up in the titular city of Paju, an underdeveloped and desolate city just north of Seoul and near the North Korean border. Teaching religious classes to the town's schoolgirls, Joong-shik captures the heart of local house owner Eun-soo, despite the protestations of her pubescent younger sister and Joong-shik's student Eun-mo.
Night and Day
Night and Day (2008)
, 2h25
Directed by Hong Sang-soo
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Peinture, Films about sexuality
Actors Park Eun-hye, Hwang Soo-jung, Lee Sun-kyun, Gi Ju-bong, Sabine Crossen, Kim Young-ho
Roles Yoon Kyung-soo
Rating70% 3.541313.541313.541313.541313.54131
In the summer of 2007, Kim Seong-nam, a painter in his forties, travels to Paris, France to escape arrest for smoking marijuana, leaving his wife behind in Korea. While there he meets an ex-girlfriend, Min-seon, and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.