Park Hae-il (born January 26, 1977) is a South Korean actor. He began
his acting career in theater, but soon gained the film industry's
attention in 2003 with Jealousy Is My Middle Name and Memories of
Murder. Park's film career took off, with leading roles in films of
diverse genres, including relationship drama Rules of Dating (2005),
horror mystery Paradise Murdered (2007), and crime thriller Moss
(2010). More recently, Park received Best Actor honors for his
performance in the period action film War of the Arrows, which was the
highest-grossing Korean film of 2011. He also received critical
acclaim for his role as an aging poet in A Muse (2012).Park Hae-il
began appearing in theatre productions ever since childhood, and he
first established himself on stage rather than on the screen. In 2000
he was awarded the Best New Actor award in the theatre category of the
Baeksang Arts Awards for his role in the play Cheongchun-yechan ("Ode
to Youth"). His film debut was in a minor role of Yim Soon-rye's
Waikiki Brothers, however he left a major impression in his second
film Jealousy Is My Middle Name, in which he played a conflicted young
man who develops a fascination/hatred for his boss, who has stolen two
women from him. The film won the top prize at the Busan International
Film Festival in 2002, and was released commercially the following
spring.Throughout his career, Park has been cast in two different
types of roles: innocent-looking, boyish characters, or else men who
hide a dark streak under a nice-looking exterior. After Jealousy, Park
would take on his darkest role of all in the acclaimed smash hit
Memories of Murder, where he portrayed a man suspected of committing
serial murder. Yet the following year he was just as effective
appearing in a romantic role opposite Jeon Do-yeon in time-travel
drama My Mother, the Mermaid.In 2005, he once again played characters
of completely opposite temperament. In Rules of Dating, he plays a
dirty-minded, scheming high school instructor who sets his mind on a
pretty student teacher played by Kang Hye-jung, while in Boy Goes to
Heaven he plays a young boy who suddenly finds himself an adult one
day, ala Tom Hanks in Big.
his acting career in theater, but soon gained the film industry's
attention in 2003 with Jealousy Is My Middle Name and Memories of
Murder. Park's film career took off, with leading roles in films of
diverse genres, including relationship drama Rules of Dating (2005),
horror mystery Paradise Murdered (2007), and crime thriller Moss
(2010). More recently, Park received Best Actor honors for his
performance in the period action film War of the Arrows, which was the
highest-grossing Korean film of 2011. He also received critical
acclaim for his role as an aging poet in A Muse (2012).Park Hae-il
began appearing in theatre productions ever since childhood, and he
first established himself on stage rather than on the screen. In 2000
he was awarded the Best New Actor award in the theatre category of the
Baeksang Arts Awards for his role in the play Cheongchun-yechan ("Ode
to Youth"). His film debut was in a minor role of Yim Soon-rye's
Waikiki Brothers, however he left a major impression in his second
film Jealousy Is My Middle Name, in which he played a conflicted young
man who develops a fascination/hatred for his boss, who has stolen two
women from him. The film won the top prize at the Busan International
Film Festival in 2002, and was released commercially the following
spring.Throughout his career, Park has been cast in two different
types of roles: innocent-looking, boyish characters, or else men who
hide a dark streak under a nice-looking exterior. After Jealousy, Park
would take on his darkest role of all in the acclaimed smash hit
Memories of Murder, where he portrayed a man suspected of committing
serial murder. Yet the following year he was just as effective
appearing in a romantic role opposite Jeon Do-yeon in time-travel
drama My Mother, the Mermaid.In 2005, he once again played characters
of completely opposite temperament. In Rules of Dating, he plays a
dirty-minded, scheming high school instructor who sets his mind on a
pretty student teacher played by Kang Hye-jung, while in Boy Goes to
Heaven he plays a young boy who suddenly finds himself an adult one
day, ala Tom Hanks in Big.
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