Youn Yuh-jung

Known for ActingBorn 1947-06-19 (age 79)Gaeseong, Gyeonggi, Korea

Youn Yuh-jung (Korean: 윤여정; pronounced [junjʌdʑʌŋ]; born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. Youn gained attention on Korean television in the late 1960s and rose to prominence with the film Woman of Fire (1971). She retired in the mid-1970s after marrying and immigrating to the United States. However, she returned to acting in the late 1980s following her divorce. Known as the "Godmother of Chungmu-ro," Youn's notable films include The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), The Bacchus Lady (2016) and Canola (2016), as well as a series of matriarch roles in television dramas such as 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 gained international recognition for her role in Minari (2020), becoming the first Korean actress to win a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Independent Spirit Award, a British Academy Film Award, and an Academy Award, all for Best Supporting Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Youn Yuh-jung, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Nattering with Nah

Modern Korea

Youn's Unexpected Journey

Youn's Kitchen

Ruler of Your Own World

목욕탕집 남자들

Ireland

Woman Requiem

Never Twice

You Quiz on the Block

Noonas Over Flowers

Keys to the Heart

Pachinko

Canola

Salut d'Amour

BEEF

Sense8

KBS Drama Awards

Dog Days

Be Strong, Geum-soon!

Springtime

Youn Stay

Dear My Friends

The Producers

Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village

Minari

Hotelier

My Husband Got a Family

The Boys Presents: Diabolical

Beasts Clawing at Straws

The King 2 Hearts

Heaven: To the Land of Happiness

Right Now, Wrong Then

Maundy Thursday

The Actresses

Did We Really Love?

The Wedding Banquet

The Bacchus Lady

Boomerang Family

MBC Bests Theater

Lucky Chan-sil

Worlds Within

Hill of Freedom

Ladies Of The Forest

Master In The House

The Queen's Classroom

Hwang Jin Yi

Hindsight