Lee Jung-jae

Acting · Born 1972-12-15 in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Biography

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…

Filmography

• New World as Lee Ja-sung
• Assassination as Yeom Seok-jin
• Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds as King Yeomra
• Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days as King Yeomra
• Squid Game: Making Season 2 as Self
• The Accidental Gangster as Cheon-doong
• Typhoon as Gang Se-jong
• Il Mare as Han Sung-hyun
• Asako in Ruby Shoes as Woo-in
• The Housemaid as Hoon

TV

• Squid Game as Seong Gi-hun / Player 456
• Delayed Justice as Jang Tae-Jun
• Air City as Kim Ji-sung
• Triple as Shin Hwal
• White Nights 3.98 as Lee Young-jun
• Sandglass as Baek Jae-hee
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
• The Game Caterers as Self
• You Quiz on the Block as Self
• Civilization Express - The Great Feast of Movies as Self