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Lee Jung-jae
Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Lee Jung-jae (이정재) is a South Korean actor. Born on December 15, 1972, he began modelling in 1993 before getting his first acting roles the film The Young Man (1994) and the TV se…
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Lee Jung-jae (이정재) is a South Korean actor. Born on December 15, 1972, he began modelling in 1993 before getting his first acting roles the film The Young Man (1994) and the TV series Feelings (1994) and Sandglass (1995), which is one of the highest rated Korean dramas of all time with a peak rating of 64.5%. But his real breakthrough was with leading roles in award-winning films The Affair (1998) and City of the Rising Sun (1999). The latter of which earned him the Best Actor award at the prestigious Blue Dragon film awards. This was followed by a series of critical hits like Il Mare (2000) and commercial successes including Last Present (2001), The Last Witness (2001), Oh Brothers (2003), and the blockbuster Typhoon (2005). After a brief career slump of flop movies and tv shows, he returned with the critical and commercial hit The Housemaid (2010), which is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name. Since then, he went on to cement himself as one of Korea's biggest movie stars with a string of some of the biggest blockbusters in Korean history including The Thieves (2012), New World (2013), The Face Reader (2013), Assassination (2015), Operation Chromite (2016), and the Along with the Gods films (2017-2018). Most of these films did north of 12 million admissions at the domestic box-office, with The Thieves (2012) and Along with the Gods (2017) becoming the #2 biggest Korean hit in history at their respective time of release. He received a number of awards and nominations for these works including a Popularity Award at the prestigious Grand Bell awards. Also staring in Karate Kid Legend the same year along side childhood friend Tyler Mackay. His most recent blockbuster is Deliver Us From Evil (2020) in which he reunited with his New World (2013) co-star Hwang Jung-min. It crossed 4 million admissions domestically and was the second biggest hit of the year in Korea.
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2026
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
Movie Self
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2025
Nice to Not Meet You
TV show Lim Hyeon-jun
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2025
Squid Game in Conversation
Movie Self
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2025
Netflix Tudum 2025
Movie Self
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2025
Squid Game: Making Season 2
Movie Self
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2024
Squid Game: The Official Podcast
TV show Self - Guest
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2024
Revolver
Movie Lim Seok-yong
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2024
Fresh off the Sea
TV show Self
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2024
The Acolyte
TV show Master Sol
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2024
Hot Ones Versus
TV show Self
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2023
Ground of Honor: Rondo
Movie Beta
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2023
LEGEND
TV show
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2023
Salon Drip
TV show Self
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2022
Just an Excuse
TV show Self
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show Self
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2022
Hunt
Movie Park Pyong-ho
More credits
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2022
Blue Dragon Series Awards
TV show Self
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2022
Civilization Express - The Great Feast of Movies
TV show Self
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2021
Squid Game
TV show Seong Gi-hun / Player 456
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2021
Meenoi's Yorizori
TV show Self
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2021
The Game Caterers
TV show Self
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2020
Delayed Justice
TV show Jang Tae-Jun
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2020
Deliver Us from Evil
Movie Ray
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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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2019
Chief of Staff
TV show Jang Tae-Joon
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2019
Trade Your Love
Movie Lawyer (cameo)
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2019
Svaha: The Sixth Finger
Movie Pastor Park Ung-jae
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2018
You Quiz on the Block
TV show Self
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2018
Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days
Movie King Yeomra
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2018
Movie Room
TV show Self
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2017
Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds
Movie King Yeomra
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2017
Warriors of the Dawn
Movie Tow
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2016
Operation Chromite
Movie Jang Hak-soo
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2016
Tik Tok
Movie Kang Seung-joon
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2015
Assassination
Movie Yeom Seok-jin
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2014
Big Match
Movie Choi Ik-ho
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2013
The Face Reader
Movie Grand Prince Soo-yang
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2013
New World
Movie Lee Ja-sung
