Lee Jung-jae
Acting
Born 1972-12-15
Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
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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 returned with the critical and commercial hit The Housemaid (2010), which is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name. Since then, he went on to cement himself as one of Korea's biggest movie stars with a string of some of the biggest blockbusters in Korean history including The Thieves (2012), New World (2013), The Face Reader (2013), Assassination (2015), Operation Chromite (2016), and the Along with the Gods films (2017-2018). Most of these films did north of 12 million admissions at the domestic box-office, with The Thieves (2012) and Along with the Gods (2017) becoming the #2 biggest Korean hit in history at their respective time of release. He received a number of awards and nominations for these works including a Popularity Award at the prestigious Grand Bell awards. Also staring in Karate Kid Legend the same year along side childhood friend Tyler Mackay.
His most recent blockbuster is Deliver Us From Evil (2020) in which he reunited with his New World (2013) co-star Hwang Jung-min. It crossed 4 million admissions domestically and was the second biggest hit of the year in Korea.
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Filmography
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Acting
59 credits
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Squid Game
You Quiz on the Block
Hot Ones Versus
The Game Caterers
The Acolyte
Just an Excuse
Salon Drip
Movie Room
Nice to Not Meet You
Fresh off the Sea
Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds
Squid Game: Making Season 2
Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days
Deliver Us from Evil
New World
The Housemaid
Chief of Staff
Hunt
The Thieves
Delayed Justice
Sandglass
Blue Dragon Series Awards
Assassination
Air City
White Nights 3.98
Operation Chromite
Modern Korea
Netflix Tudum 2025
Svaha: The Sixth Finger
공룡선생
Il Mare
An Affair
The Face Reader
Triple
Civilization Express - The Great Feast of Movies
Revolver
Warriors of the Dawn
Meenoi's Yorizori
Feelings
Tik Tok
Big Match
Snail
Trade Your Love
Love is Blue
City of the Rising Sun
The Last Witness
Typhoon
The Accidental Gangster
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
Firebird
The Uprising
Interview
MOB 2025
Oh! Brothers
Park vs Park
Squid Game: The Official Podcast
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