Shim Yi-young | |
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Born |
Kim Jin-ah January 31, 1980 South Korea |
Other names | Sim Yi-young Shim E-young |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2000-present |
Agent | Great Company |
Spouse(s) | Choi Won-young (m. 2014) |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 심이영 |
Revised Romanization | Sim I-yeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Sim I-yŏng |
Birth name | |
Hangul | 김진아 |
Revised Romanization | Gim Jin-a |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Jin-a |
Shim Yi-young (born Kim Jin-ah on January 31, 1980) is a South Korean actress.
Shim Yi-young made her acting debut in Kim Ki-duk's Real Fiction in 2000, and has since appeared in films such as Bongja, Paju, and Love, In Between, as well as television dramas such as The Sweet Thief and My Husband Got a Family.
She and Nam Ji-hyun host She and Her Car on MBC Life, an infotainment program that looks at cars from a woman's point of view, and gives suggestions about car trends and driving courses - topics previously thought to be exclusive to men. Shim also appears opposite former newscaster Jun Hyun-moo in We Are Mom and Dad from Today, a reality show airing on MBC Every 1 in which the two assume the roles of husband and wife and take care of babies; it aims to teach viewers about parenting while entertaining them with the onscreen romance.
Shim married actor Choi Won-young on February 28, 2014 at the Grand Ballroom of the COEX Walkerhill Hotel in Samseong-dong. Shim and Choi met while filming the 2013 TV series A Hundred Year Legacy, where they played a married couple. On June 23, 2014, Shim gave birth to their first child, a girl.