Suzy

Many people predicted that Suzy would have a successful acting career rather than a singer because she began as a model. She, like IU, made her acting debut in the teen Korean drama Dream High. Suzy was named Best New Actress at the KBS Drama Awards. She then went on to appear in films and reality shows before landing a supporting role in the KBS drama Big. Her next role was in the historical Korean drama Gu Family Book, for which she received the MBC Drama Awards Top Excellence Award as well as the Seoul International Drama Awards' Outstanding Actress Award.

While You Were Sleeping, a fantasy thriller, was one of her most successful Korean dramas. She was able to follow that up a few years later with the spy-action drama Vagabond. However, the Korean drama Start-Up, in which she played an aspiring female entrepreneur aspiring to be South Korea's Steve Jobs, catapulted Suzy to the top of the charts in 2020.