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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Complete Filmography

No Other Choice
2026
as Yoo Man-soo
After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.

Squid Game in Conversation
2025
as Self
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
2025
as Gwi-Ma (voice)
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
2025
as Self
Celebrate your favorite shows and movies at this star-studded, live global fan event with special performances and exclusive reveals.

The Match
2025
as Cho Hun-hyun
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
2025
as Self
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
2024
as Narrator (voice)

Concrete Utopia
2023
as Yeong-tak
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
2022
as Park Jae-hyuk
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
2020
as Kim Gyu-pyeong
When the investigation of 'Koreagate' takes place, Park Yong-gak, a former KCIA director who knows everything about the government's operations, heads...

Ashfall
2019
as Lee Jun-pyeong
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
2018
as Kim Jo-ha
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
2017
as Choe Myeong-gil
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
2017
as Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeck
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
2017
as Kang Jae-hoon
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
2016
as President Jin
Korea’s biggest network marketing scam reveals a far greater network of corruption and conspiracy lurking underneath.

The Magnificent Seven
2016
as Billy Rocks
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
2016
as Jung Chae-san
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
2016
as The Accountant
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
2015
as Ahn Sang-goo
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
2015
as Yu-baek / Duk-gi
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
2015
as Cop / T-1000
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
2013
as Han Cho Bai
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
2013
as Tommy Arashikage / Storm Shadow
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
2012
as King Gwang-hae / Clown Ha-sun
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
2011
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
2010
as Kim Soo-hyeon
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
2010
as Kim Hyun-jun
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
2010
as W/White W
To keep their values, characters are at a critical juncture to act upon their promises throughout time.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
2009
as Storm Shadow
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
2009
as Su Dongpo
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
2008
as Park Chang-yi
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
2007
as Kang
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
2006
as Yun Suk-young
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
2005
as Sun-woo
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
2004
as Director (segment "Cut")
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
2004
as Soo-hyun
A mysterious stranger seduces three sisters in this sensual romantic comedy from director Jang Hyeon-Su.

Addicted
2002
as Hwang Dae-jun
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
2002
as Nam-woo (adult)
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
2001
as Seo In-woo
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
2000
as Sgt. Lee Soo-hyuk
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
1999
as Kang Soo-ha
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
1997
as Jong-man
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
1996
as Love
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
1996
as Haesung
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
1995
as Lee Dong-hee
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?
1995
as Lee Jong-du
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
1995
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...
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