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After dropping out of college, Youn made her acting debut in the television drama Mister Gom in 1967. Youn shot to stardom in 1971 with two memorable portrayals of femme fatales. Her first film, Kim Ki-young's Woman of Fire, became a critical and commercial hit, for which she won Best Actress at the Sitges Film Festival.
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“Unbothered” might be the best word to describe Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung‘s attitude towards her first major American awards campaign. When we chatted with the veteran star, who is Oscar-nominated for her turn as an unconventional and hilarious grandmother in writer/director Lee Issac Chung’s Minari, she seemed pleased but mostly unaffected by t...
(Photo by Courtesy of IFC Films) If you’ve seen her work in Minari, it’s hard to believe that Youn never intended to act; her career began out of a chance encounter. Searching for a part-time job at a train station while studying at Seoul’s Hanyang University, she was approached and asked to stand beside someone. “He was a famous MC,” Youn recalls....
There was a period when Youn could not be seen on screens – when she immigrated to America in 1975, she took a 10-year hiatus from filmmaking. When she returned to full-time acting in 1985, she quickly racked up an impressive streak of television work, including Hur Jun, about 15th-century royal physician that broke viewership records with nearly 6...
The role that American audiences were most likely to know Youn for, pre-Minari, was in the Netflix series Sense8,which marked her first foray into American television. In the show, created by the Wachowski siblings, Youn played an inmate who helps one of the telepathic “sensates” escape from prison. She told us she was surprised to learn about the ...
(Photo by Courtesy of a24) How does Youn feel about the current spotlight on Korean cinema, Korean stories, and – during this awards season – her work and Oscar chances? “It’s all Bong Joon-ho’s fault!” she says, laughing as she casts the Oscar-winning Parasitedirector as the villain who has brought global attention to Korean cinema. “I am glad I’m...
Apr 26, 2021 · Exactly half a century after making her film debut in 1971's 'Woman of Fire,' Youn Yuh-jung has won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work in the incendiary 'Minari.' Here, we look back at nine key moments in her career—and how she went ingenue to Soon-ja
Apr 28, 2024 · Youn Yuh-jung's debut film was 'Woman of Fire.' Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The next film in the series is the 1971 film Woman of Fire, in which the actress made her debut. In...
Apr 26, 2021 · What many foreign fans of Youn Yuh-jung don’t know is that her silver screen debut was quite the sensation. After shooting to stardom for her vivid portrayal of Jang Hui-bin, the infamous royal concubine known for her beauty and malice, in MBC historical drama series “Jang Hui-bin” in 1971, she made her film debut in “Woman of Fire” (1971) by director Kim Ki-young, who is still ...
May 22, 2021 · Best supporting actress Oscar winner Youn Yuh-jung is a legend in South Korea. But even though her Minari director, Lee Isaac Chung, was a fan, the 73-year-old says working on the US-made film ...
Mini Bio. Beloved by audiences around the world, Youn Yuh-Jung's a legendary actress who has starred in many of Korea's most revered films & TV shows in a career that spans 5 decades. After winning Korea's Blue Dragon Award for best actress in her film debut as the country girl turned femme fatale in 1971's Woman of Fire (part of director Kim ...
