SHIN Min-a made a successful landing on the film industry playing the captain of the high school kendo (Japanese fencing) team. The role she played in her first on-screen melodrama <Madelen> was a young woman struggling with premarital pregnancy and the serious tone of the film did not match to her perky image. Although the film did not do well at the box office, it worked to increase appeal of the two lead roles, ZO In-sung and SHIN Min-a. Emerging as another up-and-co...More

SHIN Min-a made a successful landing on the film industry playing the captain of the high school kendo (Japanese fencing) team. The role she played in her first on-screen melodrama <Madelen> was a young woman struggling with premarital pregnancy and the serious tone of the film did not match to her perky image. Although the film did not do well at the box office, it worked to increase appeal of the two lead roles, ZO In-sung and SHIN Min-a. Emerging as another up-and-comer of the Korean film industry, SHIN put aside her perky image and moved on to intense scripts and role choices. It was the movie <A Bittersweet Life>, directed by KIM Jee-woon, where her mysterious beauty unveiled. Her bright and healthy image was reproduced in various trendy films such as <Sad Movie>, <The Beauty and The Beast>, and <My Mighty Princess> . SHIN’s second heyday began with her role as Mimi, a lovely back-up dancer, in <Go Go 70s>, which portrayed Korea's first rock'n roll era back in the 1970s. She was still beautiful when she ran across the vast Australian desert for a prize in <A Million>. She was adorable in <Kitchen>, the film drawing out sweet love between young people. She was loved for the role of sweet Gumiho, a nine-tailed fox that wanted to be a human, in the TV drama <My Girlfriend is Gumiho>. Following a role in KIM Jee-woon’s short <The X>, SHIN took on two very different roles in 2014, first in ZHANG Lu’s pensive indie drama <Gyeongju>, alongside PARK Hae-il, and the hit romantic comedy <My Love, My Bride>, with JO Jung-suk.Less