Jung Woo-sung, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jung Woo-sung

South Korean actor

Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1973

Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea

Profession: actor, model, television actor, film actor

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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About Jung Woo-sung

  • Jung Woo-sung (born March 20, 1973) is a South Korean actor and model.
  • He is also the first Korean UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.
  • Jung started his career as a fashion model, rising to stardom and teenage cult figure status with the gangster movie Beat (1997), for which he received the Best New Actor award at the 17th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards. One of the top South Korean stars, Jung is also widely popular in other Asian countries, notably in Japan.
  • A four-time winner of the Popular Actor Award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards he also won, among others, the Busan Film Critics Award for Best Actor for Asura: The City of Madness (2016); Best Supporting Actor at the 3rd Asian Film Awards for the western The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2009) and received 12 nominations for Best Actor.
  • Jung is a versatile actor known for playing leading roles in films from a wide spectrum of genres including high-grossing box office hits: Steel Rain (2017), The King (2017), Asura: The City of Madness (2016), The Divine Move (2014), Cold Eyes (2013); martial arts pic: Reign of Assassins (2010), fantasy: The Restless (2006); dramas: Don't Forget Me (2016), City of the Rising Sun (1999), erotic thriller Scarlet Innocence (2014); romantic movies:A Good Rain Knows (2009), Daisy (2006), A Moment to Remember (2004) and historical epic Musa (2001). He is also an accomplished television actor.
  • For his first major TV drama part in Asphalt Man (1995) he received Best New Actor award at SBS Drama Awards and at 32nd Baeksang Arts Awards (TV).
  • His other prominent roles were in high-budget espionage TV series Athena: Goddess of War (2010) and romance drama Padam Padam (2011).

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