Jung Woo-sung
| Jung Woo-sung | |
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| Born |
22 April 1973 Seoul, South Korea |
| Occupation | Actor, director, producer, model |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Agent | Artist Company |
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| Revised Romanization | Jeong U-seong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chǒng U-sǒng |
Jung Woo-sung (born April 22, 1973) is a South Korean actor, director, producer and model. He is also the first Korean UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. Jung started his career as a fashion model, rising to stardom and teenage cult figure status with the gangster movie Beat (1997), for which he received the Best New Actor award at the 17th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards.
One of the top South Korean stars he is also widely popular in other Asian countries, notably in Japan. A four-time winner of the Popular Actor Award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards he also won, among others, the Busan Film Cristics Award for Best Actor for Asura: The City of Madness (2016); Best Supporting Actor at the 3rd Asian Film Awards for the western The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2009) and received 9 nominations for Best Actor. Jung is a versatile actor known for playing leading roles in films from a wide spectrum of genres including high-grossing box office action hits: Asura: The City of Madness (2016), The Divine Move (2014), Cold Eyes (2013); political drama: The King (2017); martial arts pic: Reign of Assassins (2010), fantasy: The Restless (2006); dramas: Don't Forget Me (2015), City of the Rising Sun (1999), erotic thriller Scarlet Innocence (2014); romantic movies:A Good Rain Knows (2009), Daisy (2006), A Moment to Remember (2004) and historical epic Musa (2001).
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