Lee Jung-eun (actress)
Lee Jung-eun (Korean: ์ด์ ์) is a South Korean actress born on January 23, 1970 in Seoul. He is best known internationally for his role as the butler Moon-gwang in Bong Joon-ho's Oscar-winning film Parasite (2019).
From theater to screen
He studied theater and cinema at Hanyang University. He spent the first years of his career on stage, and in the 2000s he also taught acting while playing in theatre. He became more visible in cinema and television in the second half of the 2010s: he voiced the eponymous animal in Okja (2017), Mr. He attracted attention in the role of Ham-an-daek, the assistant of the protagonist, in the TV series Sunshine (2018).
2019 was the turning point of his career with both the TV series When the Camellia Blooms and Parasite. Her role in Parasite earned her the Best Supporting Actress award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. In 2022, she played judge Na Geun-hee in the Netflix series Juvenile Justice; In the same year, he was in the cast of the TV series Our Blues.
As a character actor with a theater background, Lee has become one of the most sought-after supporting actors in Korean cinema and TV series.
๐ Source: Wikipedia
