Kim Hee-ae
| Kim Hee-ae | |
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Kim Hee-ae as an LG DIOS Art Flower model (2009)
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| Born |
April 23, 1967 Jeju City, Jeju Province, South Korea |
| Education |
Chung-Ang University B.A. in Theater and Film M.A. in Communication and Journalism |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Agent | YG Entertainment |
| Spouse(s) | Lee Chan-jin (m. 1996) |
| Children | 2 |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김희애 |
| Hanja | 金喜愛 |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Hui-ae |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Hŭi-ae |
Kim Hee-ae (born April 23, 1967) is a South Korean actress. She is best known for her leading roles in Korean dramas such as Sons and Daughters (1992), Perfect Love (2003), My Husband's Woman (2007), A Wife's Credentials (2012), and Secret Love Affair (2014).
Kim Hee-ae was born in 1967 in Jeju City, and her family later moved to Seoul.
Kim was a freshman at Hyehwa Girls' High School when she was discovered by the younger brother of one of her teachers; he had been visiting the school by chance and worked for an advertising agency. This led to her first modeling job in a commercial for a school uniform brand in 1978.
In 1983, Kim made her acting debut in the film The First Day of the Twentieth Year. While studying at Chung-Ang University as a Theater and Film major, she appeared in her first television drama on KBS in 1986. Over the next decade, she would go on to have a successful career on Korean television, alongside fellow top actresses Chae Shi-ra and Choi Jin-sil. Among her most significant dramas during this period were Beyond the Mountains (1991) and Sons and Daughters (1992), for which she won the highest award at the MBC Drama Awards and the Baeksang Arts Awards, called the Daesang ("Grand Prize").
She again drew praise in 2003 for two consecutive hit dramas. In Wife, her husband vanishes and reappears years later as an amnesiac with another family, while in Perfect Love (written by Kim Soo-hyun), her role as the perfect wife and mother who gets diagnosed with a terminal illness earned her another Daesang from the Baeksang Arts Awards. She worked again with Kim a year later in Precious Family (also known as Letters to My Parents), playing a woman who marries into a rich family who treats her badly after she gives birth to a baby with autism.
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