Jeon Do-yeon (Hangul: ì „ë „ì—°; born February , ) is a South Korean
actress. She won Best Actress at the th Cannes Film Festival, making
her the first and only Korean ever to win an acting award at the
prestigious film festival, and Best Performance by an Actress at the
st Asia Pacific Screen Awards for her performance in Lee Chang-dong's
film Secret Sunshine. Although she is not as broadly popular with the
audiences as some other stars in South Korea due to her film choices,
Jeon is widely respected and celebrated for her acting abilities. She
is widely considered as the greatest South Korean actress of all time,
and many young actresses have cited her as a role model.Jeon Do-yeon
was born on February , . She has two older brothers and is the
youngest in her family. Born and raised in Seoul, she graduated from
Bukgajwa Elementary School, Yeonhee Girls Middle School, Changduk
Girls High School and Department of Broadcasting at Seoul Institute of
the Arts.In , Jeon made her debut in the entertainment industry as an
advertisement model for Johnson & Johnson. She made her acting debut
in television series Our Heaven in . She then continued to play
supporting roles in Scent of Love () and General Hospital () and Love
is Blue (), but struggled to receive any significant attention. In ,
she gained some recognition after playing the heroine's younger sister
in KBS's hit drama Our Sunny Days of Youth, which recorded its highest
viewership rating of . percent. The drama's director, Jeon San PD,
made a remark stating that Jeon Do-yeon is a "tough and ambitious
newcomer". The following years, she played major roles in multiple
dramas such as Project, Way Station and Until We Can Love in , and
Star in My Heart in . Jeon spent five years starring in television
dramas before achieving instant star status with her feature film
debut acting alongside Han Suk-kyu in film The Contact, which became
the second-highest grossing Korean film of that year. She won numerous
awards through the work, including Best New Actress at the th Grand
Bell Awards and th Blue Dragon Film Awards.From after the success of
The Contact, Jeon emerged as a prominent actress in the Korean film
industry and went on to establish a reputation as a "chameleon" who
can take on a wide variety of roles, from her performance as a doctor
in the hit melodrama A Promise, which won her Best Actress at the th
Baeksang Arts Awards, to that of a schoolgirl in the film The
Harmonium in My Memory, then a wife having an adulterous affair in the
film Happy End. In and , she received Best Actress awards at
numerous award ceremonies such as the th Blue Dragon Film Awards and
the th Grand Bell Awards for her performance in The Harmonium in My
Memory. She also won Best Actress at the th Baeksang Arts Awards for
her role in A Promise and several other local film awards for her role
in Happy End.
actress. She won Best Actress at the th Cannes Film Festival, making
her the first and only Korean ever to win an acting award at the
prestigious film festival, and Best Performance by an Actress at the
st Asia Pacific Screen Awards for her performance in Lee Chang-dong's
film Secret Sunshine. Although she is not as broadly popular with the
audiences as some other stars in South Korea due to her film choices,
Jeon is widely respected and celebrated for her acting abilities. She
is widely considered as the greatest South Korean actress of all time,
and many young actresses have cited her as a role model.Jeon Do-yeon
was born on February , . She has two older brothers and is the
youngest in her family. Born and raised in Seoul, she graduated from
Bukgajwa Elementary School, Yeonhee Girls Middle School, Changduk
Girls High School and Department of Broadcasting at Seoul Institute of
the Arts.In , Jeon made her debut in the entertainment industry as an
advertisement model for Johnson & Johnson. She made her acting debut
in television series Our Heaven in . She then continued to play
supporting roles in Scent of Love () and General Hospital () and Love
is Blue (), but struggled to receive any significant attention. In ,
she gained some recognition after playing the heroine's younger sister
in KBS's hit drama Our Sunny Days of Youth, which recorded its highest
viewership rating of . percent. The drama's director, Jeon San PD,
made a remark stating that Jeon Do-yeon is a "tough and ambitious
newcomer". The following years, she played major roles in multiple
dramas such as Project, Way Station and Until We Can Love in , and
Star in My Heart in . Jeon spent five years starring in television
dramas before achieving instant star status with her feature film
debut acting alongside Han Suk-kyu in film The Contact, which became
the second-highest grossing Korean film of that year. She won numerous
awards through the work, including Best New Actress at the th Grand
Bell Awards and th Blue Dragon Film Awards.From after the success of
The Contact, Jeon emerged as a prominent actress in the Korean film
industry and went on to establish a reputation as a "chameleon" who
can take on a wide variety of roles, from her performance as a doctor
in the hit melodrama A Promise, which won her Best Actress at the th
Baeksang Arts Awards, to that of a schoolgirl in the film The
Harmonium in My Memory, then a wife having an adulterous affair in the
film Happy End. In and , she received Best Actress awards at
numerous award ceremonies such as the th Blue Dragon Film Awards and
the th Grand Bell Awards for her performance in The Harmonium in My
Memory. She also won Best Actress at the th Baeksang Arts Awards for
her role in A Promise and several other local film awards for her role
in Happy End.
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