Lee Tae-sung (born Lee Sung-deok on April 21, 1985) is a South Korean
actor. He is known for his roles in 26 Years Diary, Playful Kiss,
Rooftop Prince and My Golden Life and is currently a cast member of
the reality show My Little Old Boy.The elder of two sons, Lee was born
and raised in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province. His younger brother is singer
Sung Yu-bin (Korean: ì„±ìœ ë¹ˆ, born 1987), who is a member of the
band BOB4. Lee was a baseball player in his youth and had aspired to
play professionally before constant injuries forced him to give up the
sport during his senior year. He graduated from Ansan Technical High
School where he was schoolmates with St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Kim
Kwang-hyun.Lee's first credited role was as baseball player Koo
Chun-seo in the sports film Superstar Mr. Gam. He was cast in his
first lead role in the 2005 film Blossom Again opposite veteran
actress Kim Jung-eun and was nominated for Best New Actor at the Blue
Dragon Film Awards and Baeksang Arts Awards. His next film was the
2006 Japanese-South Korean co-production 26 Years Diary, in which he
portrayed the Korean student who was killed trying to save a man who
had fallen off the platform at the Shin-ÅŒkubo Station. It garnered
him much attention in Japan due to the high profile nature of the
actual incident, which had occurred in 2001. He was cast in the second
male lead role in the romantic comedy Two Outs in the Ninth Inning, in
which he played a college baseball player aspiring to go professional.
After a stint of playing mostly protagonist roles, he portrayed the
villainous nemesis of Park Yoo-chun in the sageuk fusion drama Rooftop
Prince followed by the scheming son of a chaebol family in Pots of
Gold.Following his discharge from the military in July 2015, Lee's
comeback project was the MBC weekend drama My Mom. He then starred in
the KBS drama My Golden Life, which began airing in late 2017 and
became a ratings hit domestically.
actor. He is known for his roles in 26 Years Diary, Playful Kiss,
Rooftop Prince and My Golden Life and is currently a cast member of
the reality show My Little Old Boy.The elder of two sons, Lee was born
and raised in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province. His younger brother is singer
Sung Yu-bin (Korean: ì„±ìœ ë¹ˆ, born 1987), who is a member of the
band BOB4. Lee was a baseball player in his youth and had aspired to
play professionally before constant injuries forced him to give up the
sport during his senior year. He graduated from Ansan Technical High
School where he was schoolmates with St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Kim
Kwang-hyun.Lee's first credited role was as baseball player Koo
Chun-seo in the sports film Superstar Mr. Gam. He was cast in his
first lead role in the 2005 film Blossom Again opposite veteran
actress Kim Jung-eun and was nominated for Best New Actor at the Blue
Dragon Film Awards and Baeksang Arts Awards. His next film was the
2006 Japanese-South Korean co-production 26 Years Diary, in which he
portrayed the Korean student who was killed trying to save a man who
had fallen off the platform at the Shin-ÅŒkubo Station. It garnered
him much attention in Japan due to the high profile nature of the
actual incident, which had occurred in 2001. He was cast in the second
male lead role in the romantic comedy Two Outs in the Ninth Inning, in
which he played a college baseball player aspiring to go professional.
After a stint of playing mostly protagonist roles, he portrayed the
villainous nemesis of Park Yoo-chun in the sageuk fusion drama Rooftop
Prince followed by the scheming son of a chaebol family in Pots of
Gold.Following his discharge from the military in July 2015, Lee's
comeback project was the MBC weekend drama My Mom. He then starred in
the KBS drama My Golden Life, which began airing in late 2017 and
became a ratings hit domestically.
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