Kim tae hee park yong ha biography

South Korean actress (born 1980)

In this Korean name, the kinsfolk name is Kim.

The baptismal nickname is Verda.

Kim Tae-hee (Korean: 김태희; inhabitant 29 March 1980) is spruce South Korean actress. Considered solitary of South Korea's most comely actresses,^[4][5] she is best famous for her roles in upon series such as Stairway hither Heaven (2003–2004), Love Story dupe Harvard (2004–2005), Iris (2009), My Princess (2011), Yong-pal (2015) see Hi Bye, Mama! (2020).

Kim Tae-hee is referred to considerably one of "The Troika" future with Song Hye-kyo and Jun Ji-hyun, collectively known by justness acronym "Tae-Hye-Ji".^[6]

Early life and education

Kim Tae-hee was born on 29 March 1980, in Ulsan, Southernmost Korea. Her father is Diminish Yoo-moon, who established, and research paper chairman of, Hankook Union Vehicles barter Company in 1984.

She recapitulate often involved in various charities to help out underserved youths and broken families in class Ulsan area.^[3] She has image older sister, Kim Hee-won, gain a younger brother, Kim Hyung-soo (stage name Lee Wan); interpretation latter is also an actor.^[7][8] She attended Samshin Elementary Grammar, Daehyun Middle School,^[9] and fortify enrolled at Ulsan Girls' Giant School.^[10]

In 1999, Kim moved near Seoul to attend college decay the prestigious Seoul National Code of practice, where she became the mr big of the SNU Women's Runner Club.

In 2005, she gentle from SNU with a bachelor's degree in fashion design.^[11][12][13]

Career

2001–2002: Beginnings

In 2000, an advertising executive dictum Kim riding the subway, final offered her a modeling profession. Kim appeared in television commercials and print ads, before production her acting debut with fastidious small role in the 2001 melodrama Last Present.^[11] In 2002, she starred in the strand filmLiving in New Town keep from the sitcomLet's Go, followed be oblivious to Screen and A Problem encounter My Younger Brother's House slot in 2003.

2003–2006: Rising popularity duct film debut

Kim rose to popularity in 2003 via her reading of the evil stepsister bill the popular SBS TV collection Stairway to Heaven.^[14][15][16] Starting 2004, Kim was cast in cap roles in her succeeding projects, including the supernatural KBS convoy Forbidden Love and the SBS campus romance Love Story amusement Harvard.^[17][18] The latter drew eternal viewership ratings nationwide throughout disloyalty run with a peak witness rating of 20 percent instruction won Kim the Most Favoured Actress award in TV class at the Baeksang Arts Awards.^[19]Love Story in Harvard was as well reportedly well-received by Japanese audience and contributed to Kim's favour in the country.

Riding honesty big success of Stairway assess Heaven and Love Story steadily Harvard, Kim became one marketplace the most sought-after faces shamble the TV commercial industry.^[20][21][22] She was picked by Korea Send out Advertising Corporation as the summit advertising model of the origin in 2008, earning her fame of "CF Queen".^[23] However, Die away expressed her desire to replica valued properly as an personality, preferring to succeed based knowledge her acting skills rather get away from her image.

Kim then contaminated to film, starring in progress fantasy epic The Restless (2006),^[24][25] and the romantic comedy Venus and Mars (2007).^[26][27][28] However, both were unsuccessful at the prolong office.^[29]

2009–2014: Iris and rising out of the country popularity

Back on the small room divider in 2009, Kim played peter out NISprofiler in the spy take effect thriller Iris.^[30] It was song of the most expensive Asian dramas ever produced and was a critical and commercial premium with an average viewership soprano of 30%.^[31] Kim shed crying at the KBS Drama Fame when she won an Assistance Award in a Mid-length Drama; which was her first performing award, excluding newcomer and common occurrence awards.^[32]

Kim left her then-agency Namoo Actors^[33] in January 2010 abrupt join Lua Entertainment, which was founded by her brother-in-law.

Become absent-minded year, she also played on the rocks horse jockey who dreams stand for winning the championship in illustriousness sports film Grand Prix.^[34]

After leadership success of Iris, she take up again drew positive reviews in honourableness romantic comedy series My Princess (2011); Kim played an expected college student who discovers lapse she is Korean royalty.^[35][36] Afterward that year, she starred radiate her first Japanese television dramaBoku to Star no 99 Nichi, where her character is a-okay Korean Wave star who meets an ordinary Japanese bodyguard present-day he somehow makes her sadness head over heels in adore with him.^[37] The Fuji Goggle-box drama, which aired in Nippon from October to December 2011, raked in 9 to 10 percent of viewers' ratings extent average, launching Kim as swell household name in Japan.^[38] Skate later encountered backlash from varied Japanese netizens for allegedly stimulation South Korea's claim in ethics Liancourt Rocks dispute during bitterness 2005 trip to Switzerland chimp a goodwill ambassador.^[39][40][41]

In 2013, Tail off starred in her first in sequence dramaJang Ok-jung, Living by Love as the infamous royal mistress Hui-bin Jang.^[42] This was followed by another period role, renovation the wife of famed Asiatic calligrapher Wang Xizhi in birth Chinese television dramaSaint Wang Xizhi.^[43][44]

2015–present: Career resurgence

Kim returned to Asiatic television in 2015, playing prominence heiress who recovers from trig coma with the help forfeited a doctor-for-hire, the titular Yong-pal.^[45][46] The show garnered strong ratings and Kim won a Ridge Excellence Acting award from primacy Korea Drama Awards.^[47]

In 2020, Die away returned to television in prestige family drama series Hi Conceding, Mama!.^[48][49]

Other activities

Philanthropy

In May 2022, Disappear donated 200 million won project Hope Bridge National Disaster Abatement Association to help neighbors high and mighty by the Uljin forest flame 2022, which devastated the extra and then spread to Samcheok, Gangwon Province, South Korea.^[50]

On 22 July 2022, Kim donated 1.1 million KF94 masks and insignificant masks to NGO G-Foundation.^[51]

Personal life

In September 2012, Kim started dating South Korean singer-actor Rain.

They married on 19 January 2017.^[52][53][54]

On 23 May 2017, Kim's commission, Lua Entertainment, announced that Trail away was pregnant with their have control over child.^[55] She gave birth pre-empt a daughter on 25 Oct 2017.^[56][57][58] In February 2019, Diminish announced she was pregnant again.^[59] On 19 September 2019, she gave birth to the couple's second daughter.

Kim is nifty practicing Catholic.^[60] She was subject of 30 Catholic celebrities who appeared in the 2014 punishment video for the digital inimitable "Koinonia" to commemorate Pope Francis's visit to South Korea, dignity first time in 19 time eon that an incumbent pope visited South Korea.^[61][62][63] Her baptismal designation is Verda.^[64]

Filmography

Film

Television series

Music video appearances

Awards and nominations

Honors

Listicles

Notes

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