Acting
Youn Yuh-jung
KO, EN cinema · 38 credits
Born
19 June 1947 (age 79)
Birthplace
Gaeseong, Gyeonggi, Korea
Also known as Yoon Yeo-jeong · Yoon Yeo-jung · Yoon Yuh-jung · Yun Yeo-jeong · یون یو-جونگ
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.
Known for
Filmography
Haesol: The Soul Guide's Journey
as Yoosun (voice)
The Wedding Banquet
as Ja-Young
Dog Days
as Min-seo
Earl.
as Self
Be a Wicked Woman
as Ms. Choi
Heaven: To the Land of Happiness
as Ms. Yoon
Beasts Clawing at Straws
as Soon Ja
Minari
as Soonja
Lucky Chan-sil
as Grandmother
Keys to the Heart
as In-sook
Ladies Of The Forest
as Soon-shim
Canola
as Gye-choon
The Bacchus Lady
as So-young
Salut d'Amour
as Geum-nim
Right Now, Wrong Then
as Kang Deoksoo
Intimate Enemies
as Yeo-jung
Hill of Freedom
as Innkeeper
Boomerang Family
as Mother
In Another Country
as Park Sook
The Taste of Money
as Baek Geum-ok
Hindsight
as Madame Kang
List
as Mi-hye's Mother
The Housemaid
as Miss Cho
Ha Ha Ha
as Moonkyung's Mother
The Actresses
as Youn Yuh-jung, Co-Writer
A Tale of Legendary Libido
as Old Woman
The Old Garden
as Hyun-woo's Mother
Hwang Jin Yi
as Old Woman
Maundy Thursday
as Sister Monica
Springtime
as Mother
A Good Lawyer's Wife
as Hong Byeong-han
Woman Requiem
as Ms. Hong
Tto Sun Yi, a college girl
as Bok-nyeo
Insect Woman
as Myung-ja
Woman of Fire
as Myeong-ja