Kim Hee-ae

Kim Hee-ae made her acting debut in the film The First Day of the Twentieth Year in 1983. Beyond the Mountains (1991) and Sons and Daughters (1992) were two of her most significant dramas during this period, for which she received the highest award at the MBC Drama Awards and the Baeksang Arts Awards, known as the Daesang ("Grand Prize").

In 2003, she received critical acclaim for two consecutive hit dramas. Her performance as the perfect wife and mother who is diagnosed with a terminal illness in Perfect Love earned her another Daesang from the Baeksang Arts Awards. Her third collaboration with Kim Soo-hyun was 2007's My Husband's Woman, in which she was cast against type as a sexy woman having an affair with her best friend's husband, in contrast to her previous saintly characters. The adultery drama was a hit, with a peak viewership rating of 38.7 percent, and Kim won the Daesang award at the Korea Drama Awards and the SBS Drama Awards for the second time.

Recently, she made her television comeback in the smash-hit drama The World of the Married, a remake of the British television series Doctor Foster, in 2020. The drama series is the highest-rated Korean drama in the history of cable television. Kim received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Ji Sun-woo in the series.