Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1947-06-19 (Age: 79)
Place of Birth
Gaeseong, Gyeonggi, Korea
Youn Yuh-jung
Biography
Youn Yuh-jung (Korean: 윤여정; pronounced [junjʌdʑʌŋ]; born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. Youn gained attention on Korean television in the late 1960s and rose to prominence with the film Woman of Fire (1971). She retired in the mid-1970s after marrying and immigrating to the United States. However, she returned to acting in the late 1980s following her divorce. Known as the "Godmother of Chungmu-ro," Youn's notable films include The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), The Bacchus Lady (2016) and Canola (2016), as well as a series of matriarch roles in television dramas such as Men of the Bath House (1995), Be Strong, Geum-soon! (2005), Daughters-in-Law (2007), My Husband Got a Family (2012) and Dear My Friends (2016). She gained international recognition for her role in Minari (2020), becoming the first Korean actress to win a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Independent Spirit Award, a British Academy Film Award, and an Academy Award, all for Best Supporting Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Youn Yuh-jung, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (37)
The Wedding Banquet
2025
Earl.
2024
Dog Days
2024
Heaven: To The Land of Happiness
2021
Be a Wicked Woman
2021
Minari
2021
Lucky Chan-sil
2020
Beasts Clawing at Straws
2020
Keys to the Heart
2018
Ladies Of The Forest
2017
The Bacchus Lady
2016
Canola
2016
Right Now, Wrong Then
2015
Intimate Enemies
2015
