Lee Sun-kyun

Known for ActingBorn 1975-03-02Died 2023-12-27韩国,首尔

Lee Sun-kyun (March 2, 1975 – December 27, 2023) was a South Korean actor. He was best known for his roles in the films, Helpless (2012), romantic comedy All About My Wife (2012), and crime/black comedy A Hard Day (2014). He was also known for his role in the Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning black comedy film Parasite for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award along with his castmates. He received several other awards including nomination for an International Emmy Award. After beginning his career in musical theatre, for many years Lee was relegated to minor and supporting roles onscreen, only getting to play lead characters in one-act dramas on KBS Drama City and MBC Best Theater. In one such Best Theater project, he worked with TV director Lee Yoon-jung on Taereung National Village (2005), which led to him being cast in her later series Coffee Prince in 2007. Coffee Prince, along with medical drama White Tower brought Lee mainstream popularity, which he followed with Pasta (2010), Golden Time (2012) and My Mister (2018). Meanwhile, on the big screen, he received a Best Actor award from the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival for his role in Paju (2009), followed by critical acclaim for mystery thriller Helpless (2012), romantic comedy All About My Wife (2012), and crime/black comedy A Hard Day (2014). Lee also continues to collaborate with auteur Hong Sang-soo, and his arthouse films with Hong include Night and Day (2008), Oki's Movie (2010), and Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013). In 2019, he starred in Bong Joon-ho's Oscar-winning black comedy film Parasite.Read more

Movies & web series

Movie Room

Miss Korea

Chef & My Fridge

My Mister

Parasite

Pasta

Our Little Summer Vacation

Trans-Siberian Pathfinders

Running Man

Coffee Prince

Behind the White Tower

Show Show Show

Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village

Man of Will

Dr. Brain

The Advocate: A Missing Body

Kingmaker

A Hard Day

Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP

Helpless

Let's Eat Dinner Together

Project Silence

Night and Day

Sakwa

On Air

Take Point

A Single Spark

Make It Big

Hunt

The King's Case Note

Sleep

Surprise Party

My Wife's Having an Affair This Week

Oki's Movie

Diary of a Prosecutor

All About My Wife

Officer of the Year

My Mother the Mermaid

Land of Happiness

Scent of Love

Our Sunhi

R-Point

Nobody's Daughter Haewon

Killing Romance

Golden Time

Love, So Divine

The Oscars

Lost in the Mountains