Youn Yuh Jung (Actress)

Youn Yuh-jung is a South Korean actress with a career spanning five decades in film and television. An Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a British Academy Film Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Critics' Choice Movie Award nomination are among her honors. She has been in a number of South Korean TV shows and films. Her performance in Minari earned her international acclaim (2020). She became the first Korean actress to win a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Independent Spirit Award, a British Academy Film Award, and an Academy Award, as well as the first to be nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award, for her depiction of Soon-ja in the film.

Yuh-jung was a rising celebrity in South Korea by the late 1960s, winning multiple honors for her portrayal in Woman of Fire (1971). She took a break from performing for several years before returning in the late 1980s. Yuh-jung is recognized for her roles in the South Korean films The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), The Bacchus Lady (2016), and Canola, in addition to Woman of Fire and Minari (2016). She's also recognized for playing the matriarch in the South Korean family drama series Men of the Bath House (1995), Be Strong Geum Soon (2005), Daughters-in-Law (2007), My Husband Got a Family (2012), and Dear My Friends (2016). She had an appearance in the Apple TV+ series Pachinko in 2022.

• Born: June 19, 1947 (age 74)Kaesong, Gyeonggi, Korea (now Kaesong, North Hwanghae, North Korea)
• Other names: Yoon Yeo-jeong
• Education: Ewha Girls' High School
• Alma mater: Hanyang University
• Occupation: Actress
• Years active: 1966–present
• Agent: Hook Entertainment