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Youn Yuh-jung
Gaeseong, Gyeonggi, Korea
Youn Yuh-jung (Korean: 윤여정; pronounced [junjʌdʑʌŋ]; born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. Youn gained attention on Korean television in the late 1960s and rose to promine…
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Youn Yuh-jung (Korean: 윤여정; pronounced [junjʌdʑʌŋ]; born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. Youn gained attention on Korean television in the late 1960s and rose to prominence with the film Woman of Fire (1971). She retired in the mid-1970s after marrying and immigrating to the United States. However, she returned to acting in the late 1980s following her divorce. Known as the "Godmother of Chungmu-ro," Youn's notable films include The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), The Bacchus Lady (2016) and Canola (2016), as well as a series of matriarch roles in television dramas such as Men of the Bath House (1995), Be Strong, Geum-soon! (2005), Daughters-in-Law (2007), My Husband Got a Family (2012) and Dear My Friends (2016). She gained international recognition for her role in Minari (2020), becoming the first Korean actress to win a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Independent Spirit Award, a British Academy Film Award, and an Academy Award, all for Best Supporting Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Youn Yuh-jung, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2025
The Wedding Banquet
Movie Ja-Young
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2024
Sohn's Questions
TV show Self
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2024
Earl.
Movie Self
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2024
Dog Days
Movie Min-seo
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2023
Nattering with Nah
TV show Self
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2023
BEEF
TV show Chairwoman Park
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2022
Youn's Unexpected Journey
TV show Self
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2022
Pachinko
TV show Older Sunja
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2022
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
TV show Sun-Hee (voice)
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2021
Heaven: To the Land of Happiness
Movie Ms. Yoon
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2021
Be a Wicked Woman
Movie Ms. Choi
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2021
Minari
Movie Soonja
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2021
Next Entertainment, Visionary
TV show Self
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2021
Youn Stay
TV show Self
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2020
Lucky Chan-sil
Movie Grandmother
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2020
Beasts Clawing at Straws
Movie Soon Ja
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2019
Never Twice
TV show Bok Mak-Rye
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2019
Modern Korea
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2018
You Quiz on the Block
TV show Self
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2018
Keys to the Heart
Movie In-sook
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2017
Master In The House
TV show Self
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2017
Ladies Of The Forest
Movie Soon-shim
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2017
Youn's Kitchen
TV show Self
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2016
The Bacchus Lady
Movie So-young
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2016
Canola
Movie Gye-choon
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2016
Dear My Friends
TV show Oh Choong-nam
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2015
Right Now, Wrong Then
Movie Kang Deoksoo
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2015
Intimate Enemies
Movie Yeo-jung
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2015
Sense8
TV show Min-Jung
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2015
The Producers
TV show Self
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2015
Salut d'Amour
Movie Geum-nim
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2014
Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village
TV show Self
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2014
Hill of Freedom
Movie Innkeeper
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2014
Wonderful Days
TV show Jang So-sim
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2013
Noonas Over Flowers
TV show Self
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2013
The Queen's Classroom
TV show Yong Hyun-ja
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2013
Boomerang Family
Movie Mother
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2013
Behind the Camera
Movie Self
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2012
In Another Country
Movie Park Sook
