Kim Ji-soo (actress)

Kim Ji-soo
Kim Ji-soo at the 5th World Ceramic Biennale press conference in Korea (2009)
Born	Yang Sung-yoon (1972-10-24) 24 October 1972 (age 44) China
Other names	Kim Ji-su
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1992–present
Agent	Namoo Actors
Website	http://www.kimjisoo.com/
Korean name
Hangul	김지수
Revised Romanization	Gim Ji-su
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Chi-su
Birth name
Hangul	양성윤
Revised Romanization	Yang Seong-yun
McCune–Reischauer	Yang Sŏng-yun

Kim Ji-soo (born Yang Sung-yoon on October 24, 1972) is a South Korean actress.

A graduate of Kaywon High School of the Arts, Kim made her acting debut in 1992. She worked as a television actress for over a decade before branching out into film, saying in an interview that, "I was getting older by the second, and I hated becoming complacent." In 2005, Kim made her first big screen appearance with a leading role in Lee Yoon-ki's This Charming Girl, a character study of a twenty-something single woman working at a post office. The film was well received by critics, and Kim herself was singled out for praise, with The Japan Times commenting, "Kim's performance is a masterful balance of understatedness and open-wounded vulnerability." Kim won Best Actress at the Singapore International Film Festival, and Best New Actress at the Blue Dragon Film Awards,Busan Film Critics Awards, and Korean Film Awards, with a further nomination at the Grand Bell Awards. Due to the success of This Charming Girl on the international film festival circuit, and in recognition of her role in promoting Korean culture overseas, Kim was invited to a Blue House luncheon, where she met then-South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and First Lady Kwon Yang-suk.

In 2006 Kim appeared in several films, first with Jo Jae-hyun in the melodrama Romance, though she was publicly critical about the lack of depth to her character. In October 2006, she portrayed a victim of the Sampoong Department Store collapse in Traces of Love, which was selected as the opening film of the 11th Pusan International Film Festival. In November 2006, Kim starred opposite Han Suk-kyu in the romantic drama Solace, receiving a nomination for Best Actress at the Korean Film Awards.