Yoo Seung-ho
| Yoo Seung-ho | |
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In November 2015
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| Born |
17 August 1993 Incheon, South Korea |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Agent | San Entertainment |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 유승호 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Yu Seung-ho |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yu Sŭngho |
Yoo Seung-ho (Hangul: 유승호; Hanja: 俞承豪; born 17 August 1993) is a South Korean actor who rose to fame as a child actor in the film The Way Home (2002). After his two-year mandatory military service, he headlined the legal drama Remember: War of the Son (2015) and historical films The Magician (2015) and Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River (2016). In 2017, he will star in the melodrama Ruler: Master of the Mask.
Born and raised in Incheon, Yoo is the younger of two siblings, he later said that his family had been poor.
Yoo graduated from Baekshin High School in February 2012. He decided not to pursue a college degree in order to concentrate on his acting career.
Yoo made his entertainment debut in a cellphone commercial in 1999 after Yoo's mother sent in a photo of her son to an ad agency.
In 2000 Yoo began his career as a child actor, first appearing in television dramas. He rose to stardom in his first film The Way Home, playing a bratty city boy who learns to appreciate country life when he's forced to spend the summer with his deaf-mute grandmother. The low-budget film was a surprise box office hit in 2002, drawing more than 4 million admissions. He was then affectionately labeled as "Nation's Little Brother". Thereafter, Yoo also starred in animal movie Heart Is... (2006) about a boy and his beloved dog, and Unforgettable (2008) about school children from a remote island who go on a field trip to a candy factory in Seoul during the 1970s.
He continued acting in television, appearing in Magic Warriors Mir & Gaon (2005), an adventure series for children. Yoo further built his filmography, playing younger counterparts of male protagonists in television dramas, including general Yi Sun-sin in Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin (2004), King Seongjong in The King and I (2007), and Gwanggaeto the Great in The Legend (2007).
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