Jeon Do-yeon

Q: Has Jeon Do-yeon won any major awards?

Yes, she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for 'Secret Sunshine' in 2007, highlighting her talent on an international stage.

Q: What was Jeon Do-yeon's first film?

Jeon Do-yeon's film debut was in 'The Contact' in 1997, which marked the beginning of her successful acting career.

Q: How many children does Jeon Do-yeon have?

Jeon Do-yeon has one child, though the name has not been publicly disclosed.

Q: What is Jeon Do-yeon's estimated net worth?

Jeon Do-yeon's estimated net worth is around 5 million USD, reflecting her successful career in the entertainment industry.

Q: What notable television series has she appeared in?

Jeon Do-yeon starred in the popular television series 'The Good Wife' in 2016, showcasing her versatility beyond film.

Q: What is a defining characteristic of Jeon Do-yeon's acting style?

Jeon Do-yeon is known for her emotional depth and ability to portray complex characters, making her performances resonate with audiences.

Q: What role did she play in 'Kill Boksoon'?

In 'Kill Boksoon,' Jeon Do-yeon plays the titular character, a single mother and assassin, which highlights her range and dedication to challenging roles.

Known for

Kill Boksoon (2023)

IMDb 6.6 / 10

2023 / Action, Adventure / 137mins

At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard...

The Housemaid (2025)

2025 / Drama, Mystery / 131mins

Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins...

Name

Jeon Do-yeon

Height

5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)

Born

11 February 1973, Seoul, South Korea

Spouses

Lee Jae-hyung (2007–present)

Children

1 child, name not publicly known

Parents

Jeon Yong-suk, Lee Soo-kyung

Estimated Net Worth

5 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	TV The Great Oksuk	Bang Ok-suk	Not rated
2026	Movie Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema After the COVID-19 pandemic, Busan International Film Festival founder Kim Dong-ho, at eighty-five, picks up a camcorder for the first...	Self	Not rated
2025	TV The Price of Confession Accused of killing her husband, a woman is offered a way out by a mysterious stranger: in exchange for a...	An Yun-su	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2025	Movie Mantis The secret society of contract killers falls into chaos, unleashing a new breed of assassins. With old rules in ruins,...	Gil Bok-soon	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2025	Movie The Cherry Orchard Acclaimed director Simon Stone and his stellar Korean cast bring striking originality to Chekhov’s classic, relocating The Cherry Orchard of...	Unknown character	Not rated
2025	Movie Good News When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatches a zany scheme to...	First Lady	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2024	Movie Revolver Su-young, a police detective who went to prison for someone else, is surprised when a mysterious woman named Yoon-sun arrives...	Ha Su-young	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2023	Movie Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, this documentary provides a thematic...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2023	Movie Kill Boksoon At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's...	Gil Bok-soon	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2023	TV Crash Course in Romance The series follows the bittersweet relationship between a banchan shop owner whose daughter enters the war of Korea's college entrance...	Nam Haeng-seon	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2022	TV Just an Excuse Yoo Jae-suk Welfare Content Pinggyego (Just an Excuse) It is a content where Yoo Jae-suk freely chats with his favorite...	Self	TMDB 9.7 / 10
2022	Movie Emergency Declaration While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international...	Kim Sook-hee	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	Movie Heartbeat Caught up in anxiety, eight-year-old Chul in school tells his teacher that he is going to the bathroom but runs...	Cheol-yi's Mother	Not rated
2021	TV Lost A forty year old woman who feels like she has not accomplished anything in life and a twenty-seven year old...	Bu-jeong	TMDB 8.6 / 10
2021	Movie Hostage: Missing Celebrity A box office star has to prove his action credentials in the real world when he's kidnapped and held for...	Self (cameo)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2021	TV The Game Caterers A webseries where Na Young Seok, a variety show producer, caters people his iconic games from 'New Journey to the...	Self	TMDB 8.7 / 10
2020	Movie Beasts Clawing at Straws A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a...	Yeon-hee	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2019	Movie Ashfall A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on...	Sun Hwa	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2019	TV Modern Korea The documentary series were made to look back on Korea’s modern history. It tells stories of specific moments in time...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2019	Movie Birthday Returning from eight years abroad at work and in prison, Jeong-il struggles to reconnect with his wife and their young...	Soon-nam	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2018	TV You Quiz on the Block Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The...	Self	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2018	TV Movie Room Movie meets humanities! This talk show/variety show for movie enthusiasts features interesting discussions by a writer and two movie directors...	Self	TMDB 9.2 / 10
2017	Movie The Nest A boy adopted by a married couple who lives with her cute daughter comes. The boy's unpleasant behavior continues, and...	Ji-soo	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2016	TV The Good Wife A husband works as a successful prosecutor and his future appears bright, but he gets arrested for corruption in a...	Kim Hye-kyung	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2016	Movie A Man and a Woman Two strangers have dropped their kids off at a pickup area for a children's camp in Helsinki, Finland. A spark...	Sang-min	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2015	Movie Memories of the Sword While in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But...	Sul-rang / Wol-so	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2015	Movie The Shameless A homicide detective tries to flush out a mob enforcer by befriending the suspect's beautiful girlfriend, but soon develops romantic...	Kim Hye-kyung	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2013	Movie Way Back Home Jeong-yoon and Jong-bae own a car body repair shop together that gets in financial trouble. To help cover the losses...	Song Jung-yeon	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2012	TV Baeksang Arts Awards	Self	Not rated
2011	Movie Countdown A cold-blooded debt collector who never fails to get what he wants meets the beautiful yet mysterious ex-impostor whose every...	Cha Ha-yeon	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2010	Movie The Housemaid Eun-yi is hired as a maid in a mansion owned by a wealthy businessman. He quickly starts seducing his employee...	Eun-yi	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2008	Movie My Dear Enemy Hee-soo is desperate for money and finds her ex-boyfriend who owes her money. He goes around to various ex-girlfriends to...	Hee-soo	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2008	TV On Air The lives and love stories of drama producers, writers, actors, and managers.	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2007	TV Live Talk Show Taxi Live Talk Show TAXI or TAX) is a 2014 South Korean talk show presented by Lee Young-Ja and Oh Man-Suk....	Self	Not rated
2007	Movie Secret Sunshine Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she...	Lee Shin-ae	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2005	TV Lovers in Prague Jae Hee, a diplomat in Prague, who is getting over a break-up, meets police detective Sang Hyun and romance blossoms....	Yoon Jae-hee	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2005	Movie You Are My Sunshine An old bachelor Seok-joong, who has no experience in dating, falls in love at first sight with a prostitute named...	Eun-ha	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2004	Movie My Mother the Mermaid Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her...	Na-young / Young Yeon-soon	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2003	Movie Untold Scandal In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young,...	Lady Jeong	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2002	TV Shooting the Star A fresh romance between a talent manager and an actor with dyslexia unfolds, inspiring strength and courage.	So-ra	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2002	Movie No Blood No Tears A former safecracker makes a living as a taxi driver but continues to be haunted by her past. One day...	Su-jin	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2001	Movie I Wish I Had a Wife A lonely Korean banker drags himself through the mundanity of his job and his vacuous social life in the hope...	Jung Won-ju	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1999	Movie Happy End When a wife becomes the breadwinner of her family after her husband loses his job, adultery becomes part of her...	Choi Bo-ra	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1999	TV Love Story The drama describes 8 different love stories. Story 1 (Ep. 1-2) : Sunflower - love story about a stalker. Story...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1999	Movie The Harmonium in My Memory Hong-yun is a high school girl in little mountain village when she falls head-over-heels for a handsome new school teacher,...	Yun Hong-yeon	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1998	Movie A Promise When she met him at the first time, he was a wounded person. However, she saw him through his clear...	Chae Hee-ju	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1998	Movie What You Cherish Can Never Be Forgotten	Unknown character	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1997	TV Snail	Sun-ja	Not rated
1997	Movie The Contact The male radio presenter Dong-hyun and the female TV home shopping phone operator Soo-hyun are both lonely. While Dong-hyun is...	Lee Soo-hyun	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1997	TV Star in My Heart Star In My Heart was a 1997 Korean drama series run on MBC. One of the earlier Korean dramas to...	Soon-ae	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1997	TV Star in My Heart Orphan Lee Yun-hee (Choi Jin-sil) is adopted into a hostile family environment. She harbors an undiscovered artistic talent, which helps...	Sun-ae	Not rated
1996	TV Until We Fall in Love A drama about a woman in her 20s who is attracting family members from large families who are scattered like...	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1995	TV Love is Blue A drama that depicts the journey of Dong-ha, who falls into a difficult slump after Jae-sung’s death and his star-crossed...	Na Hye-jin	Not rated
1994	TV 사랑의 향기	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Possible Love Following the intertwined lives of two married couples leading completely opposite lives. As their worlds collide, fractures begin to appear...	Mi-ok	Not rated

Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema

2026

Mantis

2025 / TMDB 6.4

The Cherry Orchard

2025

Good News

2025 / TMDB 6.9

Revolver

2024 / TMDB 5.8

Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony

2023 / TMDB 7.5

Got a question about Jeon Do-yeon?

What are some of Jeon Do-yeon's most famous films?

Jeon Do-yeon is best known for her roles in 'Secret Sunshine,' 'The Housemaid,' and 'Kill Boksoon.' These films showcase her range and ability to deliver powerful performances.

Has Jeon Do-yeon won any major awards?

What was Jeon Do-yeon's first film?

How many children does Jeon Do-yeon have?

What is Jeon Do-yeon's estimated net worth?

What notable television series has she appeared in?

What is a defining characteristic of Jeon Do-yeon's acting style?

What role did she play in 'Kill Boksoon'?