Biography
Youn Yuh-jung (born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. In a film and television career spanning nearly 40 years, Youn is best known for starring in Kim Ki-young's Woman of Fire (1971), Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), and Minari (2020) for which she gained international fame along with numerous awards from this performance, winning an award each from Critics Choice, SAG, BAFTA, and Academy Awards for her supporting performance.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Wedding Banquet
2025
as Ja-Young
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in...

Earl.
2024
as Self
Earl. profiles the inspiring and complex life of an unknown, brilliant American composer. Earl's story crosses boundaries from classical music to poli...

Dog Days
2024
as Yuh-jung
Min-sang, a meticulous planner and tidy single man, is frustrated daily by his tenant, Jin-young, a veterinarian who turns his newly mortgaged buildin...

Heaven: To The Land of Happiness
2021
as Ms. Yoon
Two gentlemen meet by chance and decide to go on an adventure together. Their journey becomes a quest for happiness.

Minari
2021
as Soonja
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugg...

Lucky Chan-sil
2020
as Grandmother
With the death of her long-time director, Chan-sil, a film producer, is now unemployed. While working as a cleaning lady at an actress' house, she mee...

Beasts Clawing at Straws
2020
as Soon-ja
A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girl...

Keys to the Heart
2018
as In-sook
An older brother is a washed-up boxer. His younger brother is a genius pianist with physical disability. The brothers make up through their mother who...

Ladies Of The Forest
2017
as Soon-shim
Soon-shim, a spinster from an unknown planet, comes to the Earth to find her husband. However, no man is in sight. Soon-shim encounters Dal-rae, who w...

The Bacchus Lady
2016
as So-young
So-young, an elderly prostitute working in Seoul, tries to take care of a young Korean-Filipino child she meets in a hospital and make ends meet. So-y...

Canola
2016
as Gye-choon
A girl who went missing after an accident returns 10 years later and reunites with her grandmother.

Right Now, Wrong Then
2015
as Kang Deok-soo
Chun-su arrives in Suwon one day earlier than scheduled. He has a special lecture to give the next day. Chun-su decides to visit a palace and meets He...

Intimate Enemies
2015
as Yuh-jung
At a car accident site, Ji-Noo (Ryoo Seung-Bum), Na-Mi (Koh Joon-Hee), Jung-Sook (Ryoo Hyoun-Kyoung) and Yakuboo (Samuel Okyere) find a bag filled wit...

Salut d'Amour
2015
as Geum-nim
Sung-chil works at the Jang-soo Store which is owned by Jang-soo. Sung-chil is stubborn and has a bad temper, but he changes after meeting Geum-nim. G...

Hill of Freedom
2014
as Innkeeper
Kwon, a language school instructor, stops by her old workplace and receives a thick envelope addressed to her. A Japanese instructor named Mori had pr...

Boomerang Family
2013
as Mother
Based on an original written by Cheon Myeong-gwan, a 48 year-old movie director moves into the house where his mother and 50 year-old brother lives un...

Behind the Camera
2013
as Self
An odd director leaves for Hollywood to shoot a film via Skype and cellphones. 14 actors and actresses are devastated after being dumped by the direct...

In Another Country
2012
as Park Sook
A young woman and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short...

The Taste of Money
2012
as Baek Geum-ok
The assistant of a wealthy socialite reveals her husband's salacious affair. The fallout entangles him in a web of sex, love and deceit that could thr...

List
2011
as Mi-hye's Mother
While waiting at a seaside town with her mother for a relative, a young woman creates a list of things she wants to do during her time there.

Hindsight
2011
as Madame Kang
A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to like him.

The Housemaid
2010
as Byeong-sik
Eun-yi is hired as a maid in a mansion owned by a wealthy businessman. He quickly starts seducing his employee who seemingly has little choice but to ...

Ha Ha Ha
2010
as Moon-kyung's Mother
Over drinks, two friends agree to swap fond memories of their recent trips to the same seaside town. As the stories unfold in flashback, it becomes ev...

The Actresses
2009
as Youn Yuh-jung
When six famous Korean actresses gather for a Vogue fashion photo shoot, egos collide in funny and touching ways in this ingenious mockumentary, where...

The Actresses
2009
Co-Writer
When six famous Korean actresses gather for a Vogue fashion photo shoot, egos collide in funny and touching ways in this ingenious mockumentary, where...

A Tale of Legendary Libido
2008
as Old Woman
A monk gives an impaired man the secret to a strong arousal. The man had been teased and tortured until the travelling man decides to help him out.

Hwang Jin Yi
2007
as Old Woman
Although born a daughter of an aristocratic family, Jin-yi discovers the secret behind her birth and enters into a life in a brothel as a gisaeng.

The Old Garden
2006
as Hyun-woo's Mother
Activist Hyun-woo is released from prison after a 17-year stint. Journeying back to the village where he spent some time as a fugitive he recalls the ...

Maundy Thursday
2006
as Sister Monica
Yu-jeong is suicidal, yet she reluctantly goes to prison for volunteer work. There, she meets a prisoner who is waiting for death penalty. The two qui...

The President's Last Bang
2005
as Mother
On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung-hee, who had ruled South Korea since 1961, was assassinated by his director of intelligence. The film depict...

Springtime
2004
as Mother
A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town.

A Good Lawyer's Wife
2003
as Hong Byeong-han
A woman, married and with a child but becoming increasingly distant from her husband who is already cheating on her, reluctantly enters a secret relat...

Be a Wicked Woman
1990
as Ms. Choi
Two housewives, wounded by their husbands' betrayals, meet by chance. They decide to carry out "exchange murders" and work towards the perfect alibis....

Woman Requiem
1985
as Ms. Hong
After the rape and subsequent suicide of a college student, her mother takes revenge on those responsible.

The Day and Night of a Korean-American
1978
as Mrs. Hyun

Tto Sun Yi, a college girl
1973
as Bok-nyeo

Insect Woman
1972
as Myung-ja
A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor Lee and becomes his co...

Woman of Fire
1971
as Myeong-ja
The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.