KIM HEE-SUN SOUTH KOREAN ACTRESS BORN 1976 JUNE 11
Kim Hee-sun (born June 11, 1976) is a South Korean actress. She rose to fame in the 1990s with leading roles in television series such as Men of the Bath House (1995), Propose (1997), Wedding Dress (1997), Forever Yours (1998), Mister Q (1998), Sunflower (1998), and Tomato (1999). Kim also starred in the martial arts films Bichunmoo (2000) and The Myth (2005), historical media drama Faith (2012) and the teen drama Angry Mom (2015)
Career[edit]
Kim Hee-sun won the Fair Face Beauty Contest in 1992 when she was a middle school student, and began modeling in teen magazines. In 1993, Kim (then a high school sophomore) appeared in a commercial for Lotte Samkang's crab chips, which led to her acting debut in Dinosaur Teacher and an MC gig for music show Live TV Music 20 that same year.[1]
She enjoyed peak popularity in the mid-to-late 1990s, starring in one hit Korean drama after another. These include Men of the Bath House (1995) written by Kim Soo-hyun, Propose (1997) and Forever Yours (1998) with Ryu Si-won, Wedding Dress (1997) with Lee Seung-yeon, Mister Q (1998) with Kim Min-jong and Song Yun-ah,
Sunflower (1998) with Ahn Jae-wook, and Tomato (1999) with Kim Suk-hoon. Kim won the top prize at the 1998 SBS Drama Awards for Mister Q, making her (at the time) the youngest ever Grand Prize (Daesang) winner at 21 years old. During this period, she also appeared in numerous advertisements and rose to fame both at home and abroad as one of Korea's most beautiful and trend-setting actresses.[2]
Personal life[edit]
Kim wed businessman Park Ju-young in a lavish ceremony at the Seoul Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel on October 19, 2007.[1][26][27] She gave birth to daughter Park Yeon-ah on January 21, 2009.[28][29][30]
Filmography
Film[edit]
Year | Title | Role |
---|---|---|
1997 | Repechage | Eun-hye |
1999 | Ghost in Love | Jin Chae-byul |
Calla | Kang Ji-hee | |
2000 | Bichunmoo | Sullie |
2001 | Wanee & Junah | Wa-ni |
2003 | A Man Who Went to Mars | So-hee |
2005 | The Myth | Princess Ok-soo |
2011 | The Warring States | Pang Fei |
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1992 | Fair Face Beauty Contest | Grand Prize (Daesang) | N/A | Won |
1995 | KBS Drama Awards | Best New Actress | Sons of the Wind | Won |
1996 | 32nd Baeksang Arts Awards | Best New Actress (TV) | Men of the Bath House | Won |
KBS Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actress | A Faraway Country, Colors | Won | |
1997 | KBS Drama Awards | Popularity Award | Propose | Won |
1998 | SBS Drama Awards | Grand Prize (Daesang) | Mister Q | Won |
MBC Drama Awards | Popularity Award | Forever Yours, Sunflower | Won | |
2000 | 36th Baeksang Arts Awards | Most Popular Actress (TV) | Tomato | Won |
21st Blue Dragon Film Awards | Popular Star Award | Bichunmoo | Won | |
SBS Drama Awards | SBSi Award | Tomato | Won | |
Big Star Award | Won | |||
2001 | 22nd Blue Dragon Film Awards | Best Actress | Wanee & Junah | Nominated |
Popular Star Award | Won | |||
2002 | 38th Baeksang Arts Awards | Most Popular Actress (Film) | Won | |
2003 | 1st Andre Kim Best Star Awards | Star Award | N/A | Won |
2005 | 39th Tax Payer's Day | Prime Minister's Commendation | N/A | Won |
Chung-Ang University's Blue Dragon Achievement Award | Recipient | N/A | Won | |
2007 | 3rd Andre Kim Best Star Awards | Star Award | N/A | Won |
2009 | 4th Andre Kim Best Star Awards | Star Award | N/A | Won |
2012 | 9th Cosmo Beauty Awards | Beauty Icon of the Year[36][37] | N/A | Won |
20th Korean Culture and Entertainment Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actress | Faith | Won | |
SBS Drama Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries | Nominated | ||
Popularity Award | Nominated | |||
2013 | 1st DramaFever Awards | Best Couple with Lee Min-ho | Won | |
2014 | 3rd APAN Star Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Serial Drama | Wonderful Days | Won |
KBS Drama Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actress | Nominated | ||
Excellence Award, Actress in a Serial Drama | Nominated | |||
2015 | 8th Korea Drama Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actress | Angry Mom | Nominated |
2nd Asian Influence Awards Oriental Ceremony | Most Influential Asian Award | N/A | Won | |
4th APAN Star Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries | Angry Mom | Won | |
MBC Drama Awards | Top 10 Stars | Won | ||
Best Couple with Ji Soo | Nominated | |||
Grand Prize (Daesang) | Nominated | |||
2016 | 5th APAN Star Awards | N/A | Won |
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