Lee Jung-jae

Known for ActingBorn 1972-12-15 (age 53)Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Modern Korea

White Nights 3.98

Just an Excuse

Movie Room

Hot Ones Versus

The Game Caterers

Sandglass

Squid Game: Making Season 2

Squid Game in Conversation

You Quiz on the Block

Chief of Staff

Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days

Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds

Squid Game

Nice to Not Meet You

Ground of Honor: Rondo

Firebird

New World

Fresh off the Sea

Assassination

Il Mare

City of the Rising Sun

The Face Reader

Deliver Us from Evil

Asako in Ruby Shoes

Warriors of the Dawn

Big Match

MOB 2025

Hunt

Svaha: The Sixth Finger

Air City

The Thieves

Last Present

Delayed Justice

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Oh! Brothers

Over the Rainbow

The Housemaid

Love is Oh Yeah!

The Young Man

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

An Affair

Typhoon

Netflix Tudum 2025

The Last Witness

Revolver

Trade Your Love

Operation Chromite