Born in 1983, Lee Sang-hee had graduated in nursing science and was already working as an intern at a hospital when she suddenly found a passion for acting. Despite a relatively late age to start a career in films, she was willing to take the risk, and so she quit her job and started auditioning for all kind of roles. The short horror <Attention> (2010) marked her screen debut, and quickly thereafter she won her first acting award, a Special Mention of the Jury at the M...More

Born in 1983, Lee Sang-hee had graduated in nursing science and was already working as an intern at a hospital when she suddenly found a passion for acting. Despite a relatively late age to start a career in films, she was willing to take the risk, and so she quit her job and started auditioning for all kind of roles. The short horror <Attention> (2010) marked her screen debut, and quickly thereafter she won her first acting award, a Special Mention of the Jury at the Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival, for her performance as a desperate North Korean refugee in the short <Choongshim, Soso> (2012). She made small appearances in a number of blockbusters such as <C’est Si Bon> (2014), <Veteran> (2015), <Tunnel> (2016), and <Age of Shadows> (2016), but it is on the indie scene that she has been thriving. After she received the Independent Star Award at the Seoul Independent Film Festival for short movie <Children> (2013), she was cast as the lead in <Shadow Island> (2014), followed by supporting roles in Kim Dae-hwan’s <End of Winter> (2014) and Shin Suwon’s <Madonna> (2015). She had her breakthrough in 2016 with the release of romantic lesbian film <Our Love Story> (2016), in which she held one of the lead roles. The film, directed by Lee Hyun-ju with whom she had worked before on the short <Ordinary family> (2014), benefitted from positive reviews and was invited to several festivals across the world, with Lee taking home Best New Actress at the Wildflower Film Awards, the Baeksang Arts Awards and the Chunsa Film Art Awards. She later landed supporting roles in indie dramas <Jamsil> (2016) and <Autumn, Autumn> (2016), and in the popular hit comedy <I Can Speak> (2017). Despite her newfound fame, she kept working on short movies by debuting directors, and as such she has somewhat become a mainstay of the short films competitions of the Seoul Independent Film Festival and the Busan International Film Festival. After starring in <Autumn, Autumn> Jang Woo-jin’s follow-up <Winter’s Night> (2018) and Lee Dong-eun’s <Mothers> (2018), Lee found success in television appearing in the Netflix series <Juvenile Justice> (2022) and <All of Us Are Dead> (2022), and she was part of the main cast in <Diary of a Prosecutor> (2019-2020) and the Disney+ original series <May It Please the Court> (2022).Less