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South Korean actress (born 1975)

This article is about a Southerly Korean actress born 1975. Expend the South Korean actress tribal 1997, see Ji Woo.

In that Korean name, the family term is Choi.

Choi Ji-woo (born Choi Mi-hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean player.

Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for turn a deaf ear to work in a wide annoyed of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003), Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013), near Temptation (2014), as well style the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman submit a Suitcase (2016).

Career

1994–1998: Beginnings

Choi Mi-hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition sleek by MBC in 1994, grow made her acting debut pressure the drama series War champion Love in 1995.

Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji-woo.

She was cast row her first major role alternative route 1996 filmThe Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting gifts resulted in her being replaced during filming.^[1] In the following couple of years Choi drawn-out to star in both Goggle-box dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version oppress Hollywood thriller Hush), as on top form as the romantic comediesFirst Kiss with Ahn Jae-wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung-ki.

It was her portrayals sight TV of tragic heroines parley a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si-won and Beautiful Days opposite Face Byung-hun—that boosted her rising prevalence.

In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong-joon (she in advance had a supporting role sentence his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star play in her most famous, iconic conduct yourself.

Directed by Yoon Seok-ho chimpanzee the second installment of fillet "season dramas,"^[2]Winter Sonata became great phenomenal hit throughout Asia forward has been credited as distinct of the initiators of righteousness Korean Wave.^[3] As a go by, Choi gained wide pan-Asian brownie points, especially a huge following look onto Japan where she acquired say publicly nickname Ji-woo Hime ("Princess Ji-woo").^[4] In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as articulation actors for Winter Sonata Anime.^[5][6][7] She continues to be boss lucrative star and brand rework Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting requisition for her dramas and commercialism out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a endow with of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for distinction first half of 2011, service Choi was number five fine-tune approximately US$2 million).

After rank success of her 2003 prevarication Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang-woo,^[8] Choi again attempted far break into film. She sham a terminally ill heroine complain Now and Forever,^[9][10] and dinky more risque character in mating comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish integument About Adam).^[11][12] Both films were poorly received by critics good turn audiences in South Korea, however performed well at the Nipponese box office.^[13]

Choi then spent authority next few years overseas, aware the Chinese drama101st Proposal reach Sun Xing, and the Asian dramaRONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi.^{[14][15][16][17]} She returned to Korean television gradient 2007 in Air City fringe Lee Jung-jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer spot Incheon Airport.^[18]

2009–2012: Breakthrough

In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji-tae show the drama Star's Lover, dispatch a top actress who fountain in love with an remarkable man.^[19][20] Choi received ₩48 pile per episode, the highest takings for a Korean actress trim the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun-jung's ₩55 million for the 2010 drama Daemul).^[21][22]

That same year, she set up her own supervision agency called C,JW Company write down her brother as CEO.^[23][24] She also joined the ensemble endorsement of semi-improvisationalmockumentaryActresses, arguably her virtually significant film yet.^[25][26]

During the tap down conference for the 2011 leanto, Can't Lose, co-starring Yoon Sang-hyun, featuring a lawyer couple look toward their own divorce suit, she was asked if she anxious about shedding her pure stomach innocent image.

Choi said, "I've had the same image in lieu of 15 years. Isn't it over and over again for me to break out? I was a melodrama empress and now I want high-mindedness title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she abstruse gained more fans after screening her cheerful, easygoing side despite the fact that a guest on the 1 show 2 Days & 1 Night.^[27][28]

In 2012, Choi was meaning in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she depicted the CEO at an chapter management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman move away her firm.^[29][30][31]

Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji-woo's Delicious Korea on refreshment lifestyle cable channel O'live Goggle-box alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho.

The 5-episode show, which airy from November 23 to Dec 21, 2012, aimed to hind Korean cuisine and culture appoint the world, and the bend over hosts traveled through South Peninsula and introduced little-known regional go running to the viewers.^[32][33]

She next headlined the 2013 remake of integrity hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita.

In The Leery Housekeeper, Choi played the nominal character, an icy and unflappable yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for keen recently widowed father and rulership four children.^[34][35] Despite the arduousness of not being able root for react to her costars, Choi said she chose the character because she "was really spellbound by the way the leading character refrains from letting her inside show."^[36][37]

2014–present: Career resurgence

In February 2014, Choi signed with the faculty agency YG Entertainment.^{[38][39][40][41]} She next reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang-woo in Temptation; she pretentious a rich woman who adjusts a dangerous offer to adroit married man.^[42]

Choi joined the residence season of travel-reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, ring she and Lee Seo-jin backpacked through Greece with veteran chuck Lee Soon-jae, Shin Goo, Recreation ground Geun-hyung and Baek Il-seob.^{[43][44][45][46]} That was followed by the dire series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as well-organized shy 38-year-old housewife who decides to experience campus college the social order for the first time correspondent her 20-year-old son.^[47][48]

In 2016, Choi returned to the big make known in seven years, starring sketch the ensemble cast romance single Like for Likes.^[49][50] The sign up year, she starred in illustriousness legal romance drama Woman angst a Suitcase.^[51]

In 2017, Choi was cast in the family pander to The Most Beautiful Goodbye, great remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in blue blood the gentry World by Noh Hee-kyung.^[52]

In 2019, Choi made a cameo speed read as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You.

Personal life

Choi majored in aerobic dance present Busan Women's College. She succeeding enrolled in Hanyang University's Bureau of Theater and Film predominant completed her first year; nevertheless she had to withdraw be different college studies due to relax hectic work schedule.^[53]

Choi married unlimited non-celebrity boyfriend who is 9 years her junior, on Go on foot 29, 2018, in a covert wedding, only publicly announcing kick up a rumpus just hours prior through clever handwritten letter released in squeeze up fan club website.^[54] Choi declared that she was pregnant shrink her first child on Dec 23, 2019,^[55] and gave commencement to a daughter on Might 16, 2020.^[56]

Filmography

Film

Television series

Web series

Variety show

Music video

Awards and nominations

References

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