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Youn Yuh-jung

Youn Yuh-jung

AKA: 윤여정 · Youn Yuhjung · Yoon Yeo-jeong · Yoon Yeo-jung · Yoon Yuh-jung

Acting

Born: 1947 Gaeseong, Gyeonggi, Korea 43 Global Credits 🔥 1.3 Popularity
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Biography

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.

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Show / Title Year Credit / Role
Sohn's Questions 2024 Self
Nattering with Nah 2023 Self
BEEF 2023 Chairwoman Park
Youn's Unexpected Journey 2022 Self
Pachinko 2022 Older Sunja
The Boys Presents: Diabolical 2022 Sun-Hee (voice)
Next Entertainment, Visionary 2021 Self
Youn Stay 2021 Self
Never Twice 2019 Bok Mak-Rye
Modern Korea 2019 Self (archive footage)
The Kelly Clarkson Show 2019 Self
You Quiz on the Block 2018 Self
Youn's Kitchen 2017 Self
Dear My Friends 2016 Oh Choong-nam
Sense8 2015 Min-Jung
The Producers 2015 Self
Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village 2014 Self
Wonderful Days 2014 Jang So-sim
Noonas Over Flowers 2013 Self
The Queen's Classroom 2013 Yong Hyun-ja
The King 2 Hearts 2012 Bang Yang-seon (the Queen Mother)
My Husband Got a Family 2012 Uhm Chung-ae
Can You Hear My Heart? 2011 Hwang Soon-geum
Golden Fish 2010 Cho Yoon-hee
Heading to the Ground 2009 Ae Ja
Worlds Within 2008 Oh Min-suk
Chunja's Happy Events 2008 Yang Boon-hee
The Person I Love 2007 Yoon Min-ja
Pure in Heart 2006 Myeong Hye
A Farewell to Sorrow 2005 Lee Yeon-sim
Be Strong, Geum-soon! 2005 Kim Jin-soon
Ireland 2004 Shi Yeon's Mother
Ruler of Your Own World 2002 정유순
Who's My Love? 2002 In-ae
Hotelier 2001 Yoon Bong-sook
Hur Jun 1999 Sung In-cheol's wife
Did We Really Love? 1999 Choi Hye-ja
KAIST 1999 Professor
Open Your Heart 1996 Choi Soon Joo
How's Your Husband? 1993 Contributor
MBC Bests Theater 1991 정혜
KBS Drama Awards 1987 Host
The Oscars 1953 Self