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Lee Jung-jae

1972-12-15 (51 years old) in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Lee Jung-jae (이정재) is a South Korean actor. Born on March 15, 1973, he began modeling 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

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Revolver
50 %|Aug 7, 2024
Crime, Thriller
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Ground of Honor: Rondo
75 %|Dec 6, 2023
Action
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Hunt
66.88 %|Aug 10, 2022
Action, Mystery, Drama
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Deliver Us from Evil
69 %|Aug 5, 2020
Crime, Action, Drama
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Trade Your Love
58 %|Feb 27, 2019
Romance, Comedy
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Svaha: The Sixth Finger
68 %|Feb 20, 2019
Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
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Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days
81 %|Aug 1, 2018
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
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Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds
81 %|Dec 20, 2017
Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
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Warriors of the Dawn
68 %|May 31, 2017
War, Adventure, Action
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Operation Chromite
59 %|Jul 27, 2016
History, Drama, War, Action
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Tik Tok
58 %|Jul 15, 2016
Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Assassination
73.09 %|Jul 22, 2015
Action, Thriller, Drama
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Big Match
70 %|Nov 26, 2014
Comedy, Action, Thriller
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The Face Reader
69 %|Sep 11, 2013
Drama, History
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New World
74 %|Feb 21, 2013
Thriller, Crime, Drama
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The Thieves
67.12 %|Jul 25, 2012
Action, Crime
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El Fin del Mundo
0 %|Jun 9, 2012
Science Fiction
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The Housemaid
64.02 %|May 13, 2010
Thriller, Drama
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The Accidental Gangster
53 %|Dec 3, 2008
Action, Adventure, Comedy
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Typhoon
59 %|Dec 14, 2005
Action, Thriller
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Oh! Brothers
57 %|Sep 5, 2003
Drama, Comedy
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Over the Rainbow
62 %|May 17, 2002
Drama, Romance
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The Last Witness
58 %|Nov 16, 2001
Action, Drama, Thriller
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MOB 2025
0 %|Apr 14, 2001
Action, Science Fiction
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Last Present
66 %|Mar 24, 2001
Drama, Romance
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Asako in Ruby Shoes
67 %|Dec 9, 2000
Drama, Romance
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Il Mare
74 %|Sep 9, 2000
Fantasy, Drama, Romance
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Interview
53.89 %|Apr 1, 2000
Drama
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The Uprising
47 %|Apr 1, 1999
Drama
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City of the Rising Sun
71 %|Jan 9, 1999
Drama, Crime
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An Affair
66 %|Oct 3, 1998
Drama
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Park vs Park
50 %|Apr 28, 1997
Comedy
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Firebird
75 %|Feb 1, 1997
Romance
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Albatross
50 %|Jul 13, 1996
Action, Drama
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The Young Man
50 %|Dec 17, 1994
Drama
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Love is Oh Yeah!
50 %|Jul 17, 1993
Drama

Series

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The Acolyte
56 %|Jun 4, 2024
Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Just an Excuse
93 %|Nov 17, 2022
Talk
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Blue Dragon Series Awards
0 %|Jul 19, 2022
Reality
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Squid Game
78 %|Sep 17, 2021
Action & Adventure, Mystery, Drama
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Meenoi's Yorizori
0 %|Aug 27, 2021
Talk
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The Game Caterers
88 %|Mar 12, 2021
Reality
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Delayed Justice
65 %|Oct 30, 2020
Drama
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Modern Korea
100 %|Oct 31, 2019
Documentary
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
62 %|Sep 9, 2019
Talk
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Chief of Staff
79 %|Jun 14, 2019
Drama, War & Politics
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You Quiz On The Block
83 %|Aug 29, 2018
Talk, Comedy
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Movie Room
92 %|May 4, 2018
Talk
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
66 %|Sep 8, 2015
Comedy, Talk
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Triple
50 %|Jun 11, 2009
Drama, Comedy
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Air City
60 %|May 19, 2007
Action & Adventure, Drama
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White Nights 3.98
100 %|Aug 31, 1998
Action & Adventure, Drama
actor
달팽이
0 %|Oct 8, 1997
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Sandglass
82 %|Jan 9, 1995
Drama
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Feelings
30 %|Jul 20, 1994
Drama, Soap
actor
Ray
0 %|Invalid Date
Action & Adventure
actor
사랑은 블루
0 %|Feb 8, 1995
actor
공룡선생
0 %|Oct 22, 1993
actor
얄미운 사랑
0 %|Invalid Date
Drama