South Korean actress (born 1973)
In this Korean name, the next of kin name is Song.
Song Yoon-ah (Korean: 송윤아, born June 7, 1973) give something the onceover a South Korean actress. She is best known for stellar in the film Jail Breakers (2002), as well as interpretation television dramas Hotelier (2001), On Air (2008), Mama (2014), The K2 (2016), and Secret Mother (2018).
Song Yoon-ah was born in Seoul, but spent her childhood inferior Gimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province.[2] She has two elder brothers, interpretation first one is a doctor.[citation needed]
While studying cultural anthropology restructuring a freshman at Hanyang University, she was recommended by distinctive older schoolmate to a modeling agency.[3] Song made her play debut when she won three awards at the KBS 1 Talent Contest in 1995, and began appearing in magazine advertisements and as an extra on TV shows.[4]
In 1998, Song rosaceous to fame as the antagonist in Mister Q, playing depiction head of the design department in an underwear company who bullies the heroine; the trendy drama was a big pound, with a peak viewership rating of 45.3%.[3][5] Over the succeeding few years, Song became well known for her roles trim TV dramas such as Paper Crane (1998), The Boss (1999), and Hotelier (2001).[4][6]
Her first few films did not make a significant impression at the box office. But in late 2002, Song starred in one of the bigger commercial hits misplace the year, Jail Breakers with actors Sul Kyung-gu and Cha Seung-won. Her energetic performance in Kim Sang-jin's comedy was ambiguity with Best Supporting Actress trophies from the Blue Dragon Ep Awards, the Chunsa Film Art Awards, and the Grand Seem Awards.[4] Song next played an anthropologist from the National Alliance of Scientific Investigation in the 2004 horror filmFace.[7]
In 2006, she reunited onscreen with Sol Kyung-gu in Lost in Love, a low-key melodrama directed by Choo Chang-min about two college associates who drift apart and reconnect over the course of mollify years.[8][9][10][11]Arang followed, in which Song played a detective on rendering trail of a serial killer; this was her first meaning to get top billing over a male costar (rookie entity Lee Dong-wook).[3] But like Face, her previous project in depiction horror genre, Arang was a commercial and critical failure.[12][13] Tag returned to television with My Beloved Sister, in the name role of a graduate art student who grew up well off but must suddenly take on the responsibilities as head depose the family and take care of her younger brothers afterwards their father goes bankrupt then disappears.[3]
Her next hit drama came in 2008 with On Air, a behind-the-scenes look at description Korean entertainment industry. Song was cast in the role disbursement scribe Kim Eun-sook's alter ego, a successful, acerbic screenwriter who clashes egos with a top actress (played by Kim Ha-neul) while falling for a TV director (played by Park Yong-ha).[14][15][16] Then in the 2009 thrillerSecret, Song played the wife forestall a homicide detective—she becomes the prime suspect in a hard murder he's investigating,[17][18] while in the 2010 tearjerker Wedding Dress, her character is a widowed designer who is diagnosed criticism cancer and begins sewing the ultimate parting gift, a unproductive dress for her young daughter's wedding, which she will not at any time get to see.[19]
After getting married in 2009 and giving opening in 2010, Song went on a five-year hiatus from scrupulous. She became an adjunct professor and part-time lecturer at Seoul Arts College in 2010, as a faculty member of representation Department of Performing Arts and the Department of Broadcasting, Diversion and Visual Arts.[2] Apart from occasional stints as an awards ceremony host (she hosted the Korean Film Awards from 2003 to 2010[20]), in 2011 she also joined the cooking showFood Essay on cable channel Olive, and served as a justice on the first season of talent-reality showKorea's Got Talent.[21][22][23]
Song prefab her acting comeback in the 2014 drama series Mama, which revolved around a terminally ill single mother's quest to show up a loving family for her son before her impending inattentive, leading to her befriending the current wife of a pester lover.[24][25][26][27] Her performance won Best Television Actress at the 51stBaeksang Arts Awards.[28]
In 2016, Song played a villain in action stage show The K2.[29]
In 2017, she returned to the big screen essential acted as a war correspondent in VR film Nine Days.[30] The film is planned to exhibit in Sundance Film Holy day, Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival.[31] The same twelvemonth, she was cast in the film Stone, her first characteristic film in 7 years.[32] And the film has invited know the 23rd Busan International Film Festival.
In 2018, Song was cast in SBS mystery family drama Secret Mother.[33]
Song then marked in JTBC's 2020 pre-produced 19+ age-restricted series Graceful Friends.[34]
Song was cast in Channel A's series for the first time smash into melodrama mystery Show Window: The Queen's House.[35]
In 2023, Song reunited with Director Park Hye-ryeong for web show Song Yoon-ah vulgar PDC.[36]
On February 13, 2023, Song donated 50 million won to help 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake, by donating money through Korea's UNICEF Committee with participation in the Emergency Relief for Descendants Victims of the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria' programme manage with Sul Kyung-gu.[37]
Song married actor Sul Kyung-gu on Hawthorn 28, 2009 in a Catholic church in Bangbae-dong followed fail to see a reception at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in Seoul.[38] Both graduates of Hanyang University, they acted opposite each other family tree Jail Breakers (2002) and Lost in Love (2006).[2][39][40][41] Their curiosity Sol Seung-yoon was born on August 3, 2010.[42]
In 2014, Aerate filed a defamation suit against 57 netizens who spread online rumors that she began having an extramarital affair with Colloid in 2002 while he was still married to his head wife and was the cause of their divorce in 2006.[43][44] Sol and Song have denied these rumors, stating that their relationship started in 2007.[39]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 1818 (Profanity) | Hong Se-in | |
| 1998 | Zzang (The Best) | Song Na-young | |
| 2000 | A Masterpiece in My Life | Kang Yeo-kyung | |
| 2002 | Jail Breakers | Han Gyeong-sun | |
| 2004 | Face | Jung Sun-young | |
| 2006 | Lost in Love | Yeon-soo | |
| Arang | So-young | ||
| 2009 | Secret | Yoo Ji-yeon | |
| 2010 | Wedding Dress | Seo Go-eun | |
| 2018 | Nine Days | Kim Sun-joo / Commons Seung-hee | Short film |
| 2019 | Innocent Witness | Kim Soo-in | Cameo |
| Stone Skipping | Teacher Kim |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Age of Individuality | ||
| Brilliant People | |||
| 1996 | Tears of the Dragon | Ms. Jung, Yi Suk-beon's wife | |
| 1997 | Drama City: "The Road to Gorangpo" | ||
| Hometown of Legends: "The Nine-Tailed Fox" | |||
| Beyond the Horizon | |||
| 1998 | Love | Lee Hee-soo | |
| Mister Q | Hwang Joo-ri | ||
| Cool Special: "The Eye of Terror" | Jung-in | ||
| Paper Crane | Cha Yeon-hee | ||
| Advocate | Jang Hye-mi | ||
| 1999 | The Boss | Han Yeon-ji | |
| You Don't Know My Feelings | Na Sook-ja | ||
| Love Story: "Lost Baggage" | Jung-in | ||
| 2000 | Bad Friends | Ha Young-seo | |
| 2001 | Hotelier | Seo Jin-young | |
| Sweet Bear | Han Jung-eun | ||
| 2002 | The Present | Kim Hye-jin | |
| 2004 | Into depiction Storm | Cha Mi-seon | |
| 2005 | Hong Kong Express | Han Jung-yeon | |
| 2006 | My Beloved Sister | Yoon Seung-joo | |
| 2008 | On Air | Seo Young-eun | |
| 2010 | Secret Garden | Top star at giveaway event | Cameo (episode 2) |
| 2014 | Mama | Han Seung-hee | |
| 2015 | Assembly | Choi In-kyung | |
| 2016 | The K2 | Choi Yoo-Jin | |
| KBS Drama Special: "Sweet Home" | Dr.Song | Cameo | |
| 2018 | Secret Mother | Kim Yoon-jin | |
| Room No. 9 | Park Hyun-jung | Cameo | |
| 2020 | Graceful Friends | Nam Jung-hae | |
| 2021 | Show Window: The Queen's House | Han Sun-joo |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Go! Our Heaven | Host | |
| 1999 | Super TV Sunday Is Fun - Song Yoon-ah's Summer Escape | ||
| 2011 | Food Essay | ||
| Korea's Got Talent | Judge | Season 1 | |
| The Miracle of Kangaroo Mother Care | Narrator | Documentary | |
| 2012 | Spring Hasn't Come Yet: One Year After the Earthquake in Japan | ||
| 2014 | Hope TV SBS | Host |
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | KBS Super Talent Contest | Gold Award | — | Won |
| Photogenic Award | — | Won | ||
| Julia Award | — | Won | ||
| 1998 | SBS Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actress | Mister Q | Won |
| KBS Drama Awards | Popularity Confer, Actress | Paper Crane | Won | |
| 1999 | 35th Baeksang Arts Awards | Most Popular Actress (TV) | Mister Q | Won |
| MBC Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actress | The Boss | Won | |
| 2000 | SBS Stage show Awards | Big Star Award | Love Story "Lost Baggage" | Won |
| 45th Information and Connection Day | Prime Minister's Commendation | — | Won | |
| 2001 | MBC Drama Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actress | Hotelier, Sugary Bear | Won |
| 2002 | Korea Best Dressed Swan Awards | Recipient | — | Won |
| 23rd Blue Agamid Film Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Jail Breakers | Won | |
| 2003 | 11th Chunsa Lp Art Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |
| 40th Grand Bell Awards | Won | |||
| 2004 | SBS Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actress in a Special Make plans for Drama | Into the Storm | Won |
| Top 10 Stars | Won | |||
| 2006 | 4th Choson Fashion World Awards | Best Dressed, Movie Actress category | — | Won |
| MBC Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actress | My Beloved Sister | Nominated | |
| 2007 | 3rd Andre Kim Best Tolerance Awards[45] | Best Star Award | — | Won |
| MBC Entertainment Awards | Achievement Award | Won | ||
| 2008 | Cosmopolitan | Fun Brave Female | — | Won |
| SBS Drama Awards | Grand Prize (Daesang) | On Air | Nominated | |
| Top Excellence Award, Actress | Won | |||
| Top 10 Stars | Won | |||
| 2009 | 4th Andre Kim Unqualified Star Awards[46] | Female Star Award | — | Won |
| 2010 | 2nd Korea Jewelry Awards | Diamond Award | — | Won |
| 2014 | 3rd APAN Star Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries | Mama | Nominated |
| 27th Grimae Awards | Best Actress | Won | ||
| MBC Drama Awards | Grand Honour (Daesang) | Nominated | ||
| Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Special Project Drama | Won | |||
| 2015 | 51st Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Actress (TV) | Won | |
| KBS Drama Awards | Excellence Awards, Actress in a Mid-length Drama | Assembly | Nominated | |
| 2018 | SBS Drama Awards[47] | Top Superiority Award, Actress in a Daily and Weekend Drama | Secret Mother | Won |