Lee Sun-kyun

Q: Has Lee Sun-kyun won any awards?

Yes, Lee Sun-kyun has won several awards, including the Best Supporting Actor at the 2020 Blue Dragon Film Awards for his role in 'Parasite'. His performances have been recognized at various film festivals and award shows.

Q: What was Lee Sun-kyun's first film?

Lee Sun-kyun made his film debut in 'The Happy Life' in 2007. This role marked the beginning of his successful career in the South Korean film industry.

Q: What are Lee Sun-kyun's most successful films?

Some of Lee Sun-kyun's most successful films include 'Parasite', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and 'Everything About My Wife', which was a box office hit in South Korea.

Q: What is known about Lee Sun-kyun's personal life?

Lee Sun-kyun is married to actress Jeon Hye-jin, and they have two children together. He tends to keep his personal life private and away from the media spotlight.

Q: What is Lee Sun-kyun's estimated net worth?

Lee Sun-kyun's estimated net worth is approximately $5 million. His earnings come from his extensive work in films and television, as well as endorsements.

Q: What are some milestones in Lee Sun-kyun's filmography?

Milestones in Lee Sun-kyun's filmography include his breakthrough roles in 'Everything About My Wife' and 'Parasite'. His performance in 'Parasite' helped him gain international recognition.

Q: Is Lee Sun-kyun involved in any upcoming projects?

Yes, Lee Sun-kyun is set to appear in various upcoming films and television series, continuing to build on his successful acting career and exploring new roles.

Known for

Parasite (2019)

IMDb 8.5 / 10

2019 / Comedy, Drama / 132 min

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Name

Lee Sun-kyun

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

2 May 1975, Seoul, South Korea

Spouses

Jeon Hye-jin (2009–present)

Children

2 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Lee Jong-seok, Lee Jung-sook

Estimated Net Worth

$5 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2024	Movie Land of Happiness October 26, 1979, a presidential assassination shakes the nation. Taking on the defense of Park Tae-joo, the secretary involved in...	Park Tae-joo	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2024	Movie Project Silence Due to sudden deteriorating weather conditions, visibility on the Airport Bridge is severely impaired, leaving people stranded and at risk...	Cha Jeong-won	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2023	Movie Sleep A pregnant wife who becomes worried about her husband’s sleeping habits. What starts out as some light sleep-talking soon escalates...	Hyun-su	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2023	Movie Killing Romance Hwang Yeo-rae, a once-popular actress, faces a turbulent marriage and yearns for her old career. When she moves in next...	Jonathan Na	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2023	TV The Most Private Asia This is not your typical vacation with friends. Lee Sun-kyun, Jang Hang-jun, Kim Do-hyun, and Kim Nam-hee, four men with...	Self	Not rated
2023	TV Payback: Money and Power Eun Yong, a money business titan and an affluent financial capitalist, has been living a life of a recluse in...	Eun Yong	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2022	Movie Kingmaker Seo Chang-dae, an ambitious political campaign strategist who ends up having ideological differences with his present client, receives a lucrative...	Seo Chang-dae	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2021	TV Dr. Brain Brilliant brain scientist Sewon suffers a horrific personal tragedy. Desperate to uncover what happened to his family, he conducts "brain...	Koh Se-won	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2021	TV Next Entertainment, Visionary	Self	Not rated
2020	TV My Dear Youth - Coffee Prince "Coffee Prince", which made our hearts pit-a-pat in that summer is now back in 13 years! "Coffee Prince" became the...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2020	TV Our Little Summer Vacation Show about adults who enjoy an everyday vacation in an unfamiliar place in order to heal their tired minds and...	Self	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2020	Movie Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP A zoophobic national security agent suddenly receives the ability to talk to animals after a freak accident.	Black goat (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2019	TV Diary of a Prosecutor The stories of overworked prosecutors's daily lives in Seoul. A drama depicting the mundane daily routine of overworked prosecutors staying...	Lee Sun-Woong	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2019	TV Trans-Siberian Pathfinders “Trans-Siberian Pathfinders” follows Lee Sun Gyun, Kim Nam Gil, Lee Sang Yeob, Kim Min Sik, and Go Kyu Pil as...	Self	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2019	Movie Parasite All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled...	Park Dong-ik	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2019	Movie Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage On the run from a dogged internal affairs agent, a corrupt cop reluctantly teams up with a defiant teen to...	Jo Pil-ho	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2018	Movie Take Point On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA...	Yoon Ji-eui	TMDB 6.9 / 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
2018	TV My Mister In a world that is less than kind, a young woman and a middle-aged man develop a sense of kinship...	Park Dong-hoon	TMDB 8.6 / 10
2017	Movie A Special Lady A corrupt prosecutor plans for revenge against Hyun-jung's crime organization by using her loyal partner, Sang-hoon.	Sang-hoon	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2017	Movie Man of Will Young Kim Chang-soo is placed behind bars, charged with murdering a Japanese person who took part in Empress Myeongseong's assassination....	King Gojong	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2017	Movie The King's Case Note A clever king of Joseon and his brilliant chronicler hunt for the truth behind a crime that threatens the throne...	King Yejong of Joseon	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2016	TV My Wife's Having an Affair This Week Suspecting his seemingly perfect wife is cheating on him, a troubled man seeks anonymous advice from an internet community to...	Do Hyun-woo	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2016	TV Let's Eat Dinner Together As more and more people are getting used to eating dinner alone, Kang Ho-dong and Lee Kyung-kyu visit ordinary Korean...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie The Advocate: A Missing Body When his client suddenly confesses to murder in open court, a hotshot attorney embarks on a search for truth to...	Byeong Ho-sung	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2014	TV Chef & My Fridge The best chefs of Korea compete to create impromptu dishes that feature ingredients found inside the guest stars' personal refrigerators.	Self	TMDB 8.6 / 10
2014	TV Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village Celebrities are chosen to live for three days a week in a rural setting. They are required to use their...	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2014	Movie A Hard Day After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by...	Go Gun-su	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2013	TV Miss Korea This drama takes place in year 1997 and is about a failing cosmetics company that tries to turn a former...	Kim Hyung-joon	TMDB 8.7 / 10
2013	Movie Our Sunhi Sunhi, a film major graduate, visits her school to ask her Professor Choi for a recommendation letter to study in...	Munsu	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2013	Movie Nobody's Daughter Haewon Facing her mother’s departure and the weight of a secret affair with her professor, college student Haewon drifts through a...	Seongjun	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2012	TV Golden Time Golden Time is a 2012 South Korean medical drama starring Lee Sun-kyun, Hwang Jung-eum, Lee Sung-min and Song Seon-mi. It...	Lee Min-woo	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2012	Movie All About My Wife A man asks a womanizer to seduce his wife in order to catalyze a divorce.	Lee Du-hyeon	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2012	TV Baeksang Arts Awards	Self	Not rated
2012	Movie Helpless A woman suddenly disappears. Her fiance then sets out to find her and, in the process, uncovers layers of dark...	Jang Moon-ho	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	Movie Officer of the Year Two police stations from neighboring precincts are in constant fierce competition with each other, including for the Officer of the...	Jeong Eui-chan	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2010	Movie Petty Romance A comic artist and an unemployed sex columnist are trying to work together in order to win a lucrative comic-book...	Jeong-bae	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2010	Movie Oki's Movie Oki, a film student, gets involved in two relationships as she navigates the advances of a fellow student and grapples...	Jingu	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2010	TV Running Man These days, as variety shows are gradually disappearing, this is one of Korea’s representative variety shows that has been responsible...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2010	Movie Our Slightly Risque Relationship Dong Chan is a prickly broadcasting director at MBS who meets and immediately clashes with Nam Hee, a reporter he...	Gi Dong Chan	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2010	TV Pasta Pasta follows the dreams and successes of a young woman who aspires to become an elite chef at La Sfera...	Choi Hyun-wook	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2009	Movie Lost in the Mountains Hong Sang-soo's Lost in the Mountains depicts Mi-sook's suffering when she discovers her friend Jin-young has been secretly sleeping with...	Myeong-woo	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2009	Movie Paju A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since...	Kim Joong-sik	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2009	TV Triple In pursuit of her dreams to become a figure skater, Ha-ru goes to Seoul where she is reunited with her...	Jo Hae-yoon	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2009	TV You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook is a Korean pop music program that is both a talk show and live music show. The...	Self	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2008	Movie Romantic Island Three Korean couples travel separately to the Philippines. A middle aged couple first time abroad, a convenience store clerk bumps...	Kang Jae-hyuk	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2008	Movie Sakwa A woman breaks up with her boyfriend of seven years. Devastated, she throws herself into another relationship and decides to...	Min-suk	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2008	TV My Sweet City The friendship, romance, and professional lives of single women living in a big city.	Kim Yeong-Su	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2008	TV On Air The lives and love stories of drama producers, writers, actors, and managers.	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2008	Movie Night and Day Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets...	Yoon Kyungsoo	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2007	Movie Our Town A writer kills his landlady and stages the body to look like the work of an active serial killer. Anxious...	Jae-sin	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2007	TV Coffee Prince Han Kyul gives his family's café a new spin, hiring only good-looking men to work there -- plus an androgynous-looking...	Choi Han-sung	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2007	TV Behind the White Tower Based on renowned Japanese novelist Yamazaki Toyoko's representative work Shiroi Kyotō, the drama brings viewers deep into the political inner...	Choi Do-young	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2006	Movie A Cruel Attendance A financially desperate salaryman teams up with his friend to kidnap a rich girl to make a quick buck. But...	Min-ho	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2006	TV 도망자 이두용	노철기	Not rated
2006	Movie The Customer Is Always Right In a peaceful barbershop, a timid barber confronts a stranger who has started to send blackmail notes. Whenever the stranger...	Lee Jang-gil	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2005	TV The Path to Glory A drama about the passion and love for sports of top athletes gathered in the Taereung Athletes' Village.	Unknown character	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2005	TV Loveholic Loveholic is a 2005 South Korean television series starring Kangta, Kim Min-sun, Lee Sun-kyun and Yoo In-young. It aired on...	Kim Tae-hyun	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2004	Movie R-Point On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nha-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed...	Sergeant Park	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2004	Movie Love, So Divine Kyu-sik is a seminary student, who one day falls during a church service, dropping a precious, pope-blessed relic. As punishment,...	Man in Love Dovey Couple	TMDB 6.5 / 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...	Do-hyeon	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2003	TV Thousand Years of Love It was about 1,400 years ago. The story revolves around Princess Buyeu Ju, the Daughter of last king, general Ari...	Pil-ga	TMDB 2.6 / 10
2003	Movie Scent of Love In-ha and Hee-jae were together in college and meet again after years. Their love is being tested when Hee-jae finds...	Doctor Shin	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2003	Movie Show Show Show San-hae has a habit for chasing unreachable dreams but never attaining them. His best friend, Sang-chul, is yet to find...	Sang-cheol	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2002	Movie Boss X File In order to bust a money laundering ring, the cops must work undercover at a hostess bar. Zaniness ensues as...	Unknown character	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2002	Movie A Perfect Match Despite the fact that she works at a professional matchmaking firm, Hyo Jin cannot seem to find her Perfect match....	Doctor	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2002	Movie Surprise Party How do you go about detaining a total stranger for 12 hours? This is what Ha-young (Lee Yo-won) has to...	Kim Jung-woo	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2002	Movie Make It Big A detective and a gang of thieves trail three high-school students who found a bloody corpse and a bag of...	Woo Jung-chul	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1995	Movie A Single Spark Activist and law school graduate Kim is being persecuted by the mid-’70s Park regime for trying to write a book...	Newspaper Reader	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2022	Movie Hunt After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do...	Thanks Crew	TMDB 6.8 / 10

Land of Happiness

2024 / TMDB 6.4

Project Silence

2024 / TMDB 6.9

Sleep

2023 / TMDB 6.7

Killing Romance

2023 / TMDB 6.4

Kingmaker

2022 / TMDB 7.1

Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP

2020 / TMDB 7.0

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Got a question about Lee Sun-kyun?

What are some of Lee Sun-kyun's career highlights?

Lee Sun-kyun's career highlights include his lead roles in 'Everything About My Wife', 'Parasite', and 'My Wife's Having an Affair This Week'. His ability to portray diverse characters has earned him critical acclaim and a strong fan base.

Has Lee Sun-kyun won any awards?

What was Lee Sun-kyun's first film?

What are Lee Sun-kyun's most successful films?

What is known about Lee Sun-kyun's personal life?

What is Lee Sun-kyun's estimated net worth?

What are some milestones in Lee Sun-kyun's filmography?

Is Lee Sun-kyun involved in any upcoming projects?

Known for

Parasite (2019)

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