Kim Hye-ja
| Kim Hye-ja | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 15, 1941 Gyeongseong, Korea |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1962-present |
| Spouse(s) | Im Jong-chan |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김혜자 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Hye-ja |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Hyecha |
Kim Hye-ja (born September 15, 1941) is a South Korean actress. Best known to South Korean audiences as the archetypal mother figure in popular television series such as Country Diaries, What Is Love?, My Mother's Sea, and Roses and Beansprouts, Kim drew international critical acclaim in the 2009 noir thriller Mother.
Kim Hye-ja was born in 1941 in Gyeongseong, Gyeonggi Province in Japanese-occupied Korea (known as present-day Seoul, South Korea).
Kim was studying Living Art at Ewha Womans University when she dropped out of college to pursue a career in acting.
Kim made her acting debut in 1963, and went on to star in more than 90 television dramas, including I Sell Happiness (1978), Sand Castle (1988), Winter Mist (1989), What Is Love? (1991), My Mother's Sea (1993), You and I (1997), and Roses and Beansprouts (1999).Country Diaries, in which she appeared for 22 years, is particularly notable for making Kim into a household name and cementing her image among South Korean audiences as an iconic, unconditionally loving and self-sacrificing mother. Because of this wholesome onscreen persona, CJ CheilJedang hired her to endorse their products and appear in their advertisements for nearly 30 years, from 1975 to 2002.
Though she won Best Actress at the Manila International Film Festival in 1983 for Late Autumn and occasionally acted in stage plays and musicals, Kim was most active in television for four decades. She holds the record of having won the Daesang ("Grand Prize," or highest award) at the MBC Drama Awards the most times (3): in 1988, 1992, and 1999. Kim holds the same record of Daesang wins at the Baeksang Arts Awards: in 1979, 1989, 2009.
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