1972-12-15 ( 52 years old ) in 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.
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.
Movies
Squid Game: Making Season 2
2025-01-02
Revolver
2024-08-07
Ground of Honor: Rondo
2023-12-06
Hunt
2022-08-10
Deliver Us from Evil
2020-08-05
Trade Your Love
2019-02-27
Svaha: The Sixth Finger
2019-02-20
Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days
2018-08-01
Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds
2017-12-20
Warriors of the Dawn
2017-05-31
Operation Chromite
2016-07-27
Tik Tok
2016-07-15
Assassination
2015-07-22
Big Match
2014-11-26
The Face Reader
2013-09-11
New World
2013-02-21
The Thieves
2012-07-25
El Fin del Mundo
2012-06-09
The Housemaid
2010-05-13
The Accidental Gangster
2008-12-03
Typhoon
2005-12-14
Oh! Brothers
2003-09-05
Over the Rainbow
2002-05-17
The Last Witness
2001-11-16
MOB 2025
2001-04-14
Last Present
2001-03-24
Asako in Ruby Shoes
2000-12-09
Il Mare
2000-09-09
Interview
2000-04-01
The Uprising
1999-04-01
City of the Rising Sun
1999-01-09
An Affair
1998-10-03
Park vs Park
1997-04-28
Firebird
1997-02-01
Albatross
1996-07-13
The Young Man
1994-12-17
Love is Oh Yeah!
1993-07-17
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