Biography
Jeon Do-yeon (born February 11, 1973) is a highly-acclaimed South Korean actress who has won many awards including best actress at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. She is most famous for her extraordinary portrayal of a broken woman who has lost everything in Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Revolver
2024
as Ha Su-young
Su-young, a police detective who went to prison for someone else, is surprised when a mysterious woman named Yoon-sun arrives to collect her on her da...

Kill Boksoon
2023
as Gil Bok-soon
At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.

Emergency Declaration
2022
as Kim Sook-hee
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flig...

Heartbeat
2022
as Cheol-yi's Mother
Caught up in anxiety, eight-year-old Chul in school tells his teacher that he is going to the bathroom but runs straight home.

Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony
2022
as Self
A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, this documentary provides a thematic analysis of h...

Hostage: Missing Celebrity
2021
as Self (cameo)
A box office star has to prove his action credentials in the real world when he's kidnapped and held for ransom.

Beasts Clawing at Straws
2020
as Yeon-hee
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...

Ashfall
2019
as Sun Hwa
A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.

Birthday
2019
as Soon-nam
Returning from eight years abroad at work and in prison, Jeong-il struggles to reconnect with his wife and their young daughter, Ye-sol, whom he barel...

The Nest
2017
as Ji-soo
A boy adopted by a married couple who lives with her cute daughter comes. The boy's unpleasant behavior continues, and the woman who wants a happy fam...

A Man and a Woman
2016
as Sang-min
Two strangers have dropped their kids off at a pickup area for a children's camp in Helsinki, Finland. A spark of mutual interest is ignited between t...

Memories of the Sword
2015
as Sul-rang / Wol-so
While in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But therefore she must face one of the most powerf...

The Shameless
2015
as Kim Hye-kyung
A homicide detective tries to flush out a mob enforcer by befriending the suspect's beautiful girlfriend, but soon develops romantic feelings for her.

Way Back Home
2013
as Song Jung-yeon
Jeong-yoon and Jong-bae own a car body repair shop together that gets in financial trouble. To help cover the losses and take care of her family, Jeon...

Countdown
2011
as Cha Ha-yeon
A cold-blooded debt collector who never fails to get what he wants meets the beautiful yet mysterious ex-impostor whose every word is nothing but a li...

The Housemaid
2010
as Eun-yi
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 ...

My Dear Enemy
2008
as Hee-soo
Hee-soo is desperate for money and finds her ex-boyfriend who owes her money. He goes around to various ex-girlfriends to get cash and she trails alon...

Secret Sunshine
2007
as Lee Shin-ae
Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t...

You Are My Sunshine
2005
as Eun-ha
An old bachelor Seok-joong, who has no experience in dating, falls in love at first sight with a prostitute named Eun-ha. At first Eun-ha shows no int...

My Mother the Mermaid
2004
as Na-young / Young Yeon-soon
Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice....

Untold Scandal
2003
as Lady Jeong
In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Ch...

No Blood No Tears
2002
as Su-jin
A former safecracker makes a living as a taxi driver but continues to be haunted by her past. One day she chances upon an aspiring singer, who is a sp...

I Wish I Had a Wife
2001
as Jung Won-ju
A lonely Korean banker drags himself through the mundanity of his job and his vacuous social life in the hope that he will eventually find that specia...

Happy End
1999
as Choi Bo-ra
When a wife becomes the breadwinner of her family after her husband loses his job, adultery becomes part of her life.

The Harmonium in My Memory
1999
as Yun Hong-yeon
Hong-yun is a high school girl in little mountain village when she falls head-over-heels for a handsome new school teacher, Mr. Kang. What with taking...

A Promise
1998
as Chae Hee-ju
When she met him at the first time, he was a wounded person. However, she saw him through his clear eyes hidden in the bandage. She, Chae Hi-Ju, is a ...

What You Cherish Can Never Be Forgotten
1998

The Contact
1997
as Lee Soo-hyun
The male radio presenter Dong-hyun and the female TV home shopping phone operator Soo-hyun are both lonely. While Dong-hyun is focused on getting back...

Good News
N/A
Set in the 1970s, a group of people gathered to land a hijacked airplane at all costs devise a suspicious plan.

Mantis
N/A
as Gil Bok-soon
Mantis, an ace assassin, returns to the contract killer industry after a hiatus, encountering his trainee friend Jae-yi and a retired legendary killer...
Possible Love
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