Jeon Do-yeon (전도연)

Jeon Do-yeon (전도연)

There was a whole lot of buzz surrounding this award-winning actress last year.

Thanks to her role in Secret Sunshine, Jeon Do-yeon made heads turn when she bagged the Best Actress trophy at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

Apart from that, the 35-year-old actress, who embarked upon a showbiz career back in 1990, was also named one of Variety’s 50 Most Influential Women.

Even Anjali Rao of CNN’s Talk Asia conducted an interview with the star. The program was aired in October 2007.

Jeon started her career by appearing in television dramas. After five years doing TV work, she debuted as a film actor in The Contact, starring opposite Han Seok-gyu. The film was a hit.

The actress then took on different types of roles ranging from a schoolgirl in Harmonium in My Memory to an adulteress in Happy End. Her popularity steadily increased and in late 1999, she won the Best Actress award at Korea’s Chungryong Awards for her role in Harmonium in My Memory.

Jeon also appeared in Untold Scandal, a box-office hit that is based on the famous French novel Dangerous Liaisons.

On the personal front, the actress tied the knot with 44-year-old businessman Kang Shi-kyu in March 2007, after a 4-month whirlwind romance.

Ladies and gentlemen, an actress who’s making Korea proud, Jeon Do-yeon:

Name: Jeon Do-yeon/ Jun Do-yun (전도연)
Date of birth: Feb 11, 1973
Height: 165cm
Blood type: O

Movies:

• Secret Sunshine (2007)
• You Are My Sunshine (2005)
• My Mother, the Mermaid (2004)
• Untold Scandal (2003)
• No Blood No Tears (2001)
• I Wish I had a Wife (2000)
• Happy End (1999)
• A Promise (1998)
• Harmonium in My Memory (1998)
• The Contact (1997)

TV Dramas:

• Lovers in Prague (2005)
• Shoot the Star (2002)
• Some Things You Can’t Forget (1998)
• Project (1996)
• The Star in My Heart (1996)
• Until We Can Love (1996)
• The Sunshine of the Youth (1995)
• The Scent of Love (1994)
• Our Own Heaven (1993)