Yoo Yeon-mi
Acting
Biography
Yoo Yeon-mi (born July 7, 1999) is a South Korean actress. She began her career as a child actress, notably in Jeon Soo-il's indie film With a Girl of Black Soil (2007), for which she received the Best Actress award at the Marrakech International Film Festival. Yoo also starred in the television dramas Golden Apple (2005), Great Expectations (2006), and Missing You (2012).
Born: July 7, 1999
Known For
Perfect Sense
A student with retinitis pigmentosa bonds with a young blind teacher and her seeing eye dog.
The Man from Nowhere
A reclusive pawnshop owner goes on a brutal rampage to rescue a young girl kidnapped by a criminal organization.
Page Turner
Yoo-Seul is a student of an art high school. She is a talented pianist and who won various contests, but she is driven by her mother. Yoo-Seul's mother wanted to become a pianist when she was younger. One day, Yoo-Seul has an accident. Yoo-Seul may never play the again because of the accident. With the help of her friend Cha-Sik and Yoo-Seul's rival Jin-Mok, Yoo-Seul begins to live a new life.
Thread of Lies
A seemingly happy family gets rocked by the suicide of the 14-year-old daughter.
Boomerang Family
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 until his sister moves in with her niece.
The Star Next Door
A top actress lives next door to a teenage tennis player named So-eun who is, in fact, her daughter. Mother and daughter don't quite get along.
With a Girl of Black Soil
A small village in the Kanwondo region, a 9 year old girl, her brother Tong-gu - who is mentally handicapped - and their father Hyegon.
Golden Apple
Kim Kyung Sook, Kyung Ku and Kyung Min's father who was a widowed farmer married Keum Shil's mother when Keum Shil was six. The marriage was not a happy one and Keum Shil's mother continued her affair with Park Byung Sam, a rich landlord in the village, who was running for a seat in the Parliament. Her body was discovered in the river after the election and Kyung Sook's father was wrongly accused of being the killer. He was tortured by the police into admission and later died in custody before trial. Park Byung Sam, who was in actual fact Keum Shil's real father, ordered his brother-in-law to adopt Keum Shil and gave him a job at the Intelligence Office in Seoul. Kyung Sook had also moved to Seoul and worked hard to bring up her brothers. She vowed that she would clear her father's name and find the real killer. Park Byung Sam remained her no. 1 suspect even though she was in love with his son, Park Jong Kyu. It turned out that he wasn't the one but who was and why?
The Great Merchant
This drama is based on a real life figure Kim Man-deuk who was living in Jeju Island. She goes through a lot of changes in her life; at first she becomes a Gisaeng but turned herself into a merchant, and then becomes one of the biggest philanthropists in Joseon Dynasty. Man-deuk gets adopted by Granny at a young age. With great efforts, she becomes a Gisaeng who has outstanding talents in various areas. However, she gives up everything and runs away with her lover Jeong Hong-soo. She gets caught and sends to the transitory wards for epidemics for one year. When she came out from the wards, she starts to take care of the Gisaengs who are suffering from illness. Man-deuk goes into a business and restores the business ethics in Jeju. Meanwhile, Moon-sun, who used to be a friend of Man-deuk, feels a sense of inferiority and competes with Man-deuk’s business.
Great Inheritance
Great Inheritance is a 2006 South Korean television drama starring Kim Jaewon and Han Ji-min. It aired on KBS2 from May 3 to June 29, 2006 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 17 episodes.
Filmography
as Mi-yeon
as Jin-joo
as Gyoo Sun
as Kwak Mi-ra
as Yeon-Mi
as Min-kyoung's Friend
as Mi-jin
as Kkot-nim
as Yoo Eun-ji
as Young-lim
as Han Ye-seo
as Keum Shil [Child]