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Aliases: Lee Jeong-Jae , Jung-Jae Lee , イ・ジョンジェ , И Жон-жэ , 李政宰

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Homepage: https://www.artistcompany.co.kr/portfolio-item/lee-jung-jae/

Movie Involvements: 34

TV Involvements: 17


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

The Acolyte
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6

The Acolyte

(2024) Master Sol
Squid Game
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8

Squid Game

(2021) Seong Gi-hun
The Game Caterers
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9

The Game Caterers

(2021) Self
공룡선생
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공룡선생

(1993) Jung-jae
달팽이
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달팽이

(1997) Dong-cheol
Delayed Justice
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6

Delayed Justice

(2020) Jang Tae-Jun
Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds
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8
사랑은 블루
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사랑은 블루

(1995) Na Jae-sung

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Lim Seok-yong
Master Sol
2023 Beta
2022 Self
Park Pyong-ho
Self
Self
2021 Seong Gi-hun / 'No. 456'
Seong Gi-hun
Self
Self
2020 Jang Tae-Jun
Ray
2019 Self (archive footage)
Self
Jang Tae-Joon
Lawyer (cameo)
Pastor Park Ung-jae
2018 Self
King Yeomra
Self
2017 King Yeomra
Tow
2016 Jang Hak-soo
Kang Seung-joon
2015 Self
Yeom Seok-jin
2014 Choi Ik-ho
2013 Grand Prince Soo-yang
Lee Ja-sung
2012 Popie
He
2010 Hoon
2009 Shin Hwal
2008 Cheon-doong
2007 Kim Ji-sung
2005 Gang Se-jong
2003 Oh Sang-woo
2002 Lee Jin-soo
2001 Detective Oh
Dust
Jung Yong-gi
2000 Woo-in
Han Sung-hyun
Eun-seok
1999 Yi Jae-su
Hong-ki
1998 Woo In
Lee Young-jun
1997 Dong-cheol
Park Su-sok
Young-hoo
1996 Pyeong-san
1995 Na Jae-sung
Baek Jae-hee
1994 Lee Han
Joon
1993 Jung-jae
Blackguard 3
Ray
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Directing

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2022 Director
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Writing

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2022 Writer
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Production

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2022 Producer
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