Jung Woo-sung (born March 20, 1973) is a South Korean actor. He is
also the first Korean UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. Jung started his
career as a fashion model, rising to stardom and teenage cult figure
status with the gangster movie Beat (1997), for which he received the
Best New Actor award at the 17th Korean Association of Film Critics
Awards.One of the top South Korean stars, Jung is also widely popular
in other Asian countries, notably in Japan. He is a versatile actor
known for playing leading roles in films from a wide spectrum of
genres including high-grossing box office hits: Steel Rain (2017), The
King (2017), Asura: The City of Madness (2016), The Divine Move
(2014), Cold Eyes (2013); martial arts pic: Reign of Assassins (2010),
fantasy: The Restless (2006); dramas: Don't Forget Me (2016), City of
the Rising Sun (1999), erotic thriller Scarlet Innocence (2014);
romantic movies:A Good Rain Knows (2009), Daisy (2006), A Moment to
Remember (2004) and historical epic Musa (2001). His critically
acclaimed film Innocent Witness (2019) won him the Best Actor Prize at
the 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Daesang (Grand Prize) for
Film at the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards.He is also an accomplished
television actor. For his first major TV drama part in Asphalt Man
(1995) he received Best New Actor award at SBS Drama Awards and at
32nd Baeksang Arts Awards (TV). His other prominent roles were in
high-budget espionage TV series Athena: Goddess of War (2010) and
romance drama Padam Padam (2011).Jung grew up in Sadang-dong, then one
of the poorest towns in Seoul. He gave up studying, dropping out of
high school after one year, to work and thus support the family
budget. He never concealed this fact and stated he did not regret his
decision. He grew very tall already in primary school, his height
causing him to constantly hunch. Later, when trying to break into the
film industry, he was told he was too tall to become an actor, so he
first worked as a model.
also the first Korean UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. Jung started his
career as a fashion model, rising to stardom and teenage cult figure
status with the gangster movie Beat (1997), for which he received the
Best New Actor award at the 17th Korean Association of Film Critics
Awards.One of the top South Korean stars, Jung is also widely popular
in other Asian countries, notably in Japan. He is a versatile actor
known for playing leading roles in films from a wide spectrum of
genres including high-grossing box office hits: Steel Rain (2017), The
King (2017), Asura: The City of Madness (2016), The Divine Move
(2014), Cold Eyes (2013); martial arts pic: Reign of Assassins (2010),
fantasy: The Restless (2006); dramas: Don't Forget Me (2016), City of
the Rising Sun (1999), erotic thriller Scarlet Innocence (2014);
romantic movies:A Good Rain Knows (2009), Daisy (2006), A Moment to
Remember (2004) and historical epic Musa (2001). His critically
acclaimed film Innocent Witness (2019) won him the Best Actor Prize at
the 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Daesang (Grand Prize) for
Film at the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards.He is also an accomplished
television actor. For his first major TV drama part in Asphalt Man
(1995) he received Best New Actor award at SBS Drama Awards and at
32nd Baeksang Arts Awards (TV). His other prominent roles were in
high-budget espionage TV series Athena: Goddess of War (2010) and
romance drama Padam Padam (2011).Jung grew up in Sadang-dong, then one
of the poorest towns in Seoul. He gave up studying, dropping out of
high school after one year, to work and thus support the family
budget. He never concealed this fact and stated he did not regret his
decision. He grew very tall already in primary school, his height
causing him to constantly hunch. Later, when trying to break into the
film industry, he was told he was too tall to become an actor, so he
first worked as a model.
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