Song Kang-ho

Song Kang-ho made his film debut in The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996). He then rose to cult status for his role as a gangster training a group of young recruits in Song Neung-han's No.3, for which he won his first acting award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards.

Song rose to international prominence as a result of his roles in Snowpiercer (2013) and Parasite (2019). He had a starring role in the critically acclaimed film Parasite, which became the first South Korean film to win the Palme d'Or, as well as the first to be nominated for and win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The New York Times ranked him sixth on its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the Twenty-First Century in 2020. He has four times been named Gallup Korea's Film Actor of the Year (2013, 2017, 2019, and 2020). He was chosen as one of nine judges in the competition section of the 74th Cannes Film Festival in 2021.