Lee Byung-hun

Lee Byung-hun

1970-07-12 Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea 50 Credits

Biography

Lee Byung-hun (이병헌) is a South Korean actor, singer and model. He was born on July 12, 1970. He achieved wider fame after starring in the television dramas Iris (2009), All In (2003) and Beautiful Days (2001). He is also known for his starring roles in Joint Security Area (2000), A Bittersweet Life (2005), The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) and I Saw the Devil (2010). He has received multiple awards and nominations throughout his career.

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No Other Choice

No Other Choice

2026

as Yoo Man-soo

Acting

After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.

Squid Game in Conversation

Squid Game in Conversation

2025

as Self

8.8
Acting

Take a seat with the director and cast of Squid Game. Discover key moments, hear untold stories and see what this entire journey meant to them.

KPop Demon Hunters

KPop Demon Hunters

2025

as Gwi-Ma (voice)

8.6
Acting

When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums, they're using their secret powers to protect their fans from supernatural threa...

Netflix Tudum 2025

Netflix Tudum 2025

2025

as Self

4.8
Acting

Celebrate your favorite shows and movies at this star-studded, live global fan event with special performances and exclusive reveals.

The Match

The Match

2025

as Cho Hun-hyun

7.3
Acting

When a legendary Go master loses his title to a one-time friend and protégé, he sets out to reclaim it in a high-stakes battle of wits and skill.

Squid Game: Making Season 2

Squid Game: Making Season 2

2025

as Self

8.5
Acting

From set designs to character arcs, get exclusive cast and director interviews on how Season 2 of the globally most-watched series was brought to life...

BSK 25th Anniversary Concert Film : The Journey

BSK 25th Anniversary Concert Film : The Journey

2024

as Narrator (voice)

Acting
Concrete Utopia

Concrete Utopia

2023

as Yeong-tak

7.0
Acting

The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthqua...

Emergency Declaration

Emergency Declaration

2022

as Park Jae-hyuk

7.5
Acting

While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flig...

The Man Standing Next

The Man Standing Next

2020

as Kim Gyu-pyeong

7.0
Acting

When the investigation of 'Koreagate' takes place, Park Yong-gak, a former KCIA director who knows everything about the government's operations, heads...

Ashfall

Ashfall

2019

as Lee Jun-pyeong

6.8
Acting

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.

Keys to the Heart

Keys to the Heart

2018

as Kim Jo-ha

7.9
Acting

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...

The Fortress

The Fortress

2017

as Choe Myeong-gil

6.7
Acting

Ancient Korea, 17th century. The powerful Khan of the Jurchen tribe of Manchuria, who fights the Ming dinasty to gain China, becomes the first ruler o...

Decades Apart

Decades Apart

2017

as Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeck

Acting

For the work Decades Apart commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain for the exhibition Highlights, PARKing CHANce has conceived a...

A Single Rider

A Single Rider

2017

as Kang Jae-hoon

7.3
Acting

Promising fund manager Jae-hoon is at the brink of losing everything when his company goes bankrupt. Overwhelmed by despair, he takes an impulsive tri...

Master

Master

2016

as President Jin

7.0
Acting

Korea’s biggest network marketing scam reveals a far greater network of corruption and conspiracy lurking underneath.

The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven

2016

as Billy Rocks

6.5
Acting

Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma...

The Age of Shadows

The Age of Shadows

2016

as Jung Chae-san

7.2
Acting

Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explos...

Misconduct

Misconduct

2016

as The Accountant

5.6
Acting

An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case t...

Inside Men

Inside Men

2015

as Ahn Sang-goo

7.0
Acting

A disgruntled henchman teams up with an ambitious prosecutor to bring down a leading presidential candidate and the news editor behind him who is trul...

Memories of the Sword

Memories of the Sword

2015

as Yu-baek / Duk-gi

6.6
Acting

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...

Terminator Genisys

Terminator Genisys

2015

as Cop / T-1000

5.9
Acting

The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unkn...

RED 2

RED 2

2013

as Han Cho Bai

6.5
Acting

Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

2013

as Tommy Arashikage / Storm Shadow

5.6
Acting

Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their m...

Masquerade

Masquerade

2012

as King Gwang-hae / Clown Ha-sun

7.7
Acting

Though it places his own life in danger, a look-alike commoner secretly takes the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos...

Share the Vision

Share the Vision

2011

Acting

A 4D music film about a guy named Hyeon-min who sets out to find a new vision after meeting a mentor who is about to change his life.

I Saw the Devil

I Saw the Devil

2010

as Kim Soo-hyeon

7.8
Acting

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises hi...

Iris: The Movie

Iris: The Movie

2010

as Kim Hyun-jun

6.4
Acting

Hyunjun and Sawoo, close friends and rivals from the South Korean special forces, are recruited by the secret agency NSS. They both fall for Seunghee,...

The Influence

The Influence

2010

as W/White W

4.7
Acting

To keep their values, characters are at a critical juncture to act upon their promises throughout time.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

2009

as Storm Shadow

5.8
Acting

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fi...

I Come with the Rain

I Come with the Rain

2009

as Su Dongpo

5.7
Acting

Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate in Asia th...

The Good, the Bad, the Weird

The Good, the Bad, the Weird

2008

as Park Chang-yi

7.2
Acting

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hun...

Hero

Hero

2007

as Kang

6.6
Acting

After six years away, D.A. Kuryu Kohei (Kimura Takuya) returns to his former Josai branch of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, just in tim...

Once in a Summer

Once in a Summer

2006

as Yun Suk-young

6.9
Acting

An assistant to a TV producer, eager to stay off his bad side, promises to convince her former professor, a famous but reclusive academic, to appear o...

A Bittersweet Life

A Bittersweet Life

2005

as Sun-woo

7.5
Acting

Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is aw...

Three... Extremes

Three... Extremes

2004

as Director (segment "Cut")

6.8
Acting

An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors: "Dumplings", directed by Fruit Chan of Hong Kong; "Cut", directed b...

Everybody Has Secrets

Everybody Has Secrets

2004

as Soo-hyun

6.1
Acting

A mysterious stranger seduces three sisters in this sensual romantic comedy from director Jang Hyeon-Su.

Addicted

Addicted

2002

as Hwang Dae-jun

6.3
Acting

Two brothers get into a sudden tragic accident and they both fall into a coma at the same time. A year later, the younger brother Dae-jin wakes up bel...

My Beautiful Girl, Mari

My Beautiful Girl, Mari

2002

as Nam-woo (adult)

5.8
Acting

Kim Nam-woo struggles through life as people around him constantly leave him; his best friend, Jun-ho, is going to study in Seoul and in some ways his...

Bungee Jumping of Their Own

Bungee Jumping of Their Own

2001

as Seo In-woo

6.7
Acting

A likeable, married high school teacher spirals out of control when a student in his class begins unintentionally reminding him of his doomed first lo...

Joint Security Area

Joint Security Area

2000

as Sgt. Lee Soo-hyuk

7.8
Acting

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is t...

The Harmonium in My Memory

The Harmonium in My Memory

1999

as Kang Soo-ha

6.5
Acting

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...

Lament

Lament

1997

as Jong-man

6.0
Acting

Kwang Su (Shin Hyun Jun) has struggled his whole life to shake off the stigma of a shameful family history. He lives in a state of perpetual despair. ...

Kill the Love

Kill the Love

1996

as Love

5.0
Acting

A man named Love joins the criminal underworld in America and falls In love with a woman, sparking the outrage of an old criminal associate from home.

Armageddon

Armageddon

1996

as Haesung

2.0
Acting

The year is 2157. An alien organization with ultra-high technology, 'Eed', invades the Earth. As the Earth fa ces extinction, Elka, a descendant of th...

Run Away

Run Away

1995

as Lee Dong-hee

6.3
Acting

Video game producer Lee Dong-ho and freelance artist Choi Mi-ran are both young, ambitious people who are passionate about their life and work. They m...

Who Drives Me Mad?

Who Drives Me Mad?

1995

as Lee Jong-du

Acting

Lee Jong-du, a salesman who believes that luck will change when he becomes a famous writer. However he is forced to give up after his story failed to ...

Sunset on the Neon Lights

Sunset on the Neon Lights

1995

Acting

Sang-min faces sexual discrimination at her advertising job and her lover's publishing company goes bankrupt. However she is determined to find a solu...

I Believe In A Thing Called Love

N/A

Acting

I Believe In A Thing Called Love

N/A

Producer

Producing