Youn Yuh-jung

Youn Yuh-jung

Birthday: 1947-06-19

Place of Birth: Gaeseong, Gyeonggi, Korea

Biography: Youn Yuh-jung (born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. In a film and television career spanning nearly 40 years, Youn is best known for starring in Kim Ki-young's Woman of Fire (1971), Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), and Minari (2020) for which she gained international fame along with numerous awards from this performance, winning an award each from Critics Choice, SAG, BAFTA, and Academy Awards for her supporting performance.

Movies

Dog Days
Dog Days

Min-sang, a meticulous planner and tidy single man, is frustrated daily by his tenant, Jin-young, a ...

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A Good Lawyer's Wife
A Good Lawyer's Wife

A woman, married and with a child but becoming increasingly distant from her husband who is already ...

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Boomerang Family
Boomerang Family

Based on an original written by Cheon Myeong-gwan, a 48 year-old movie director moves into the house...

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The Housemaid
The Housemaid

Eun-yi is hired as a maid in a mansion owned by a wealthy businessman. He quickly starts seducing hi...

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In Another Country
In Another Country

A young woman and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. T...

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The Taste of Money
The Taste of Money

The assistant of a wealthy socialite reveals her husband's salacious affair. The fallout entangles h...

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Behind the Camera
Behind the Camera

An odd director leaves for Hollywood to shoot a film via Skype and cellphones. 14 actors and actress...

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Hindsight
Hindsight

A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to l...

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A Tale of Legendary Libido
A Tale of Legendary Libido

A monk gives an impaired man the secret to a strong arousal. The man had been teased and tortured un...

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The Actresses
The Actresses

When six famous Korean actresses gather for a Vogue fashion photo shoot, egos collide in funny and t...

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Hill of Freedom
Hill of Freedom

Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters lef...

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Woman of Fire
Woman of Fire

The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a fem...

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Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday

Yu-jeong is suicidal, yet she reluctantly goes to prison for volunteer work. There, she meets a pris...

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Springtime
Springtime

A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town....

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The Old Garden
The Old Garden

Activist Hyun-woo is released from prison after a 17-year stint. Journeying back to the village wher...

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Insect Woman
Insect Woman

A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cu...

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Ha Ha Ha
Ha Ha Ha

Over drinks, two friends agree to swap fond memories of their recent trips to the same seaside town....

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Hwang Jin Yi
Hwang Jin Yi

Although born a daughter of an aristocratic family, Jin-yi discovers the secret behind her birth and...

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Salut d'Amour
Salut d'Amour

Sung-chil works at the Jang-soo Store which is owned by Jang-soo. Sung-chil is stubborn and has a ba...

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The Wedding Banquet
The Wedding Banquet

Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal:...

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Canola
Canola

A girl who went missing after an accident returns 10 years later and reunites with her grandmother....

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List
List

While waiting at a seaside town with her mother for a relative, a young woman creates a list of thin...

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The Bacchus Lady
The Bacchus Lady

So-young, an elderly prostitute working in Seoul, tries to take care of a young Korean-Filipino chil...

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Right Now, Wrong Then
Right Now, Wrong Then

By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lect...

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Keys to the Heart
Keys to the Heart

An older brother is a washed-up boxer. His younger brother is a genius pianist with physical disabil...

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Woman Requiem
Woman Requiem

After the rape and subsequent suicide of a college student, her mother takes revenge on those respon...

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Beasts Clawing at Straws
Beasts Clawing at Straws

A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while...

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Minari
Minari

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the c...

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Be a Wicked Woman
Be a Wicked Woman

Two housewives, wounded by their husbands' betrayals, meet by chance. They decide to carry out "exch...

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Lucky Chan-sil
Lucky Chan-sil

With the death of her long-time director, Chan-sil, a film producer, is now unemployed. While workin...

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The President's Last Bang
The President's Last Bang

On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung-hee, who had ruled South Korea since 1961, was assassinate...

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Ladies Of The Forest
Ladies Of The Forest

Soon-shim, a spinster from an unknown planet, comes to the Earth to find her husband. However, no ma...

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Heaven: To The Land of Happiness
Heaven: To The Land of Happiness

Two gentlemen meet by chance and decide to go on an adventure together. Their journey becomes a ques...

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Intimate Enemies
Intimate Enemies

At a car accident site, Ji-Noo, Na-Mi, Jung-Sook and Yakuboo find a bag filled with money. They beco...

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The Day and Night of a Korean-American
The Day and Night of a Korean-American

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Tto Sun Yi, a college girl
Tto Sun Yi, a college girl

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Earl.
Earl.

Earl. profiles the inspiring and complex life of an unknown, brilliant American composer. Earl's sto...

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Haesol: The Soul Guide's Journey
Haesol: The Soul Guide's Journey

In Korean funerary tradition, when a person dies, their soul must cross a river called Samdocheon wi...

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