Cho Eunji, born in 1981, began as a cover model for magazines at age 17 before making her acting debut in Im Sangsoo’s runaway youth drama <Tears> (2000) as part of the main cast, which earned her a nomination for best new actress at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. She quickly drew attention for the candor with which she would portray unusual characters throughout her early career, such as the reckless tea-room waitress who dreams of becoming an actor in <A.F.R.I.K.A...More

Cho Eunji, born in 1981, began as a cover model for magazines at age 17 before making her acting debut in Im Sangsoo’s runaway youth drama <Tears> (2000) as part of the main cast, which earned her a nomination for best new actress at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. She quickly drew attention for the candor with which she would portray unusual characters throughout her early career, such as the reckless tea-room waitress who dreams of becoming an actor in <A.F.R.I.K.A> (2002) and the escort girl who happens to witness the assassination of an authoritarian ruler in <The President’s Last Bang> (2005). She landed her first leading role in the comedy <A Bizarre Love Triangle> (2002), but has remained an actor mainly known for her supporting roles, with <My Scary Girl> (2006), <Driving With My Wife’s Lover> (2005) and <Forever the Moment> (2007) among her most famous contributions. Having received a lot of praise for her role as a personal maid in <The Concubine>, she won Best Supporting Actress in Film at the Baeksang Arts Awards. In 2015, the indie comedy <Sunshine Love> marked the second time that she headlined a film. She was seen again in <The Villainess> (2017) as a rival assassin of Kim Okvin. Having tried her hands at film directing with the short melodrama <2Nights 3Days> (2016), which won a Jury’s Special Award at the Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival, Cho took part as a director in the film anthology <Today, Together> (2019), and eventually. In 2021, she made her feature film debut with the romcom <Perhaps Love>, starring Ryu Seungyong, and picked up Best New Director at the Baeksang Arts Awards.

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