Lee Eun-ju
| Lee Eun-ju | |
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Lee Eun-ju in 2004
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| Born |
November 16, 1980 Gunsan, South Korea |
| Died | February 22, 2005 (aged 24) Bundang, Seongnam, South Korea |
| Nationality | South Korean |
| Other names | Lee Eun-joo |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1997–2005 |
| Agent | Namoo Actors (2005) |
| Korean name | |
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| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | I Eun-ju |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ri Ŭn-ju |
Lee Eun-ju (November 16, 1980 – February 22, 2005) was a South Korean actress. She was the star of hit films including Taegukgi and The Scarlet Letter. She committed suicide at age 24.
Born in Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea, Lee studied piano for much of her youth, without giving much thought to becoming an actress. She moved to Seoul after graduating high school and was first noticed in the mid-1990s as a model for school uniforms. After finding work as a model, she began to be offered roles in various TV dramas, including Start and KAIST. Her film debut came in 1999, when she played the younger sister in Park Chong-wan's award-winning feature Rainbow Trout. Her first lead role came as the title character in acclaimed director Hong Sang-soo's Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000), where she gave one of the most memorable performances in all of Hong's films. Following this, she teamed with actor Lee Byung-hun in the 2001 hit film Bungee Jumping of Their Own, and also scored a hit opposite Cha Tae-hyun in the melodrama Lovers' Concerto.
Lee's later career was marked by several turns in films that failed at the box-office, plus a key role in the record-breaking Korean War film Taegukgi. In 2004 she appeared in the very popular Korean drama, Phoenix, and later that year she starred in her last feature, Daniel H. Byun's The Scarlet Letter which screened as the Closing Film at the 2004 Pusan International Film Festival.
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