Biography
Youn Yuh-jung is a South Korean actress. She started her career in Korean television in the late 1960s and rose to prominence with the film Woman of Fire (1971). She retired in the mid-1970s and immigrated to the United States before returning to Korea in 1984 and rebuilding her career. Known as the "Godmother of Chungmu-ro", Youn appeared in The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), The Bacchus Lady (2016), and Canola (2016).
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Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 2021
- BAFTA Award — Best Actress in a Supporting Role · 2021
- Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role · 2021
- Time 100 · 2021
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award · 1971
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- Blue Dragon Film Award — Best Actress
- Grand Bell Awards
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 2021 · nominated
Filmography32 titles
Youn's Kitchen
You Quiz on the Block
Pachinko
Salut d'Amour
Beef
Sense8
Dog Days
Youn Stay
Dear My Friends
The Producers
Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village
Minari
Diabolical
Beasts Clawing at Straws
Right Now, Wrong Then
The Wedding Banquet
Boomerang Family
Lucky Chan-sil
Hill of Freedom
Hindsight
Hwang Jin Yi
The Old Garden
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Housemaid
Hahaha
In Another Country
Can You Hear My Heart?
A Tale of Legendary Libido
A Good Lawyer's Wife
The Taste of Money
Woman of Fire
Be a Wicked Woman