Born in 1970, KIM Hye-soo made her debut at a young age, having received her first role in 1986, as one of the leads in the action-drama film <Kam-Bo>, and she went on to win the Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actress in Film. She quickly came to prominence through drama series and advertisement, and she won a slew of prizes during the 1990s, including the Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Actress in 1993 for <First Lover>. She expanded her roles as her appearance...More

Born in 1970, KIM Hye-soo made her debut at a young age, having received her first role in 1986, as one of the leads in the action-drama film <Kam-Bo>, and she went on to win the Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actress in Film. She quickly came to prominence through drama series and advertisement, and she won a slew of prizes during the 1990s, including the Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Actress in 1993 for <First Lover>. She expanded her roles as her appearances on the big screen became more regular, with significant credits including <Kick The Moon> (2001) and <Y.M.C.A. Baseball Team>. She also diversified her roles by starring in horror movies such as <Hypnotized> and <The Red Shoes>. Her mesmerizing panache as Madam Jung in the smash hit heist movie <Tazza : The High Rollers> resurrected her career and led to her being cast in more projects. She boasted fabulous dancing skills in <Modern Boy> and reunited with her old screen partner HAN Seok-kyu in the suspense comedy film <Villain and Widow>. KIM next appeared in CHOI Dong-hoon’s summer 2012 smash hit <The Thieves> as a professional thief. Another major hit came her way when she signed on as a gisaeng in HAN Jae-rim’s period drama <The Face Reader>, with SONG Kang-ho, in 2013. Following a brief hiatus, she resurfaced as a gang boss in the 2014 female-led gangster thriller <Chinatown> opposite KIM Go-eun. In 2016, she starred in the comedy <Familyhood>, playing a celebrity who fakes her pregnancy in order to get revenge on her ex-boyfriend, while also giving another highly praised performance in the hit drama series <Signal>. With <Default> (2018), which retraced the events leading to the 1998 IMF bailout of Korean economy, KIM Hye-soo reinvented herself as a specialist on monetary policies. She returned to the big screen in 2020 as a detective investigating a mysterious suicide in <The Day I Died: Unclosed Case>. She then served in the Netflix series <Juvenile Justice> (2022) as a judge who is newly appointed to the juvenile court despite her vocal opposition to juveniles, and she had another hit as a Joseon Dynasty Queen struggling to instill in her sons with the etiquette and knowledge befitting future kings. In 2023, she starred in Ryoo Seung-wan’s latest movie, <Smugglers>, as a female diver who decides to resort to smuggling after environmental pollution makes it impossible for her to continue fishing for seafood.Less