Kim Sungkyu, born in 1986, started out as a stage actor with a first performance in 2011. While he was attending college, he co-founded in 2013 the troupe Theatre of Theatre, with which he performed in a production of <12 Angry Men> that was held in Daehangno, Seoul’s prime theatre district. He was first seen on a big screen in <The Con Artists> (2014) and had another bit role in <Tunnel> (2016). As he was still struggling to live off acting, he promised ...More

Kim Sungkyu, born in 1986, started out as a stage actor with a first performance in 2011. While he was attending college, he co-founded in 2013 the troupe Theatre of Theatre, with which he performed in a production of <12 Angry Men> that was held in Daehangno, Seoul’s prime theatre district. He was first seen on a big screen in <The Con Artists> (2014) and had another bit role in <Tunnel> (2016). As he was still struggling to live off acting, he promised his mother that he would consider another career if he couldn’t break through within the following year. As luck would have it, it was just a few months after he made that promise that he passed an audition and was cast in <THE OUTLAWS> (2017) as the right-hand man of the main antagonist. The film became a surprise hit in fall 2017 and effectively propelled Kim’s career, leading him to get another support part in <The Accidental Detective 2: In Action> (2018), More notably, he joined Bae Doona and Ju Jihoon in the main cast of <Kingdom> (2019), the first Netflix Original Series to be produced in Korea, bringing him wider recognition at home on top of international notice. The year 2019 also saw him achieve another milestone in his career as he starred as the titular devil in <The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil> (2019), which was presented in Cannes as part of the Midnight Screenings programme. In 2022, he starred in the TV series <The King of Pigs> (which is based on Yeon Sangho’s animation feature of the same name) and was back on the big screen in the historical war epic <Hansan: Rising Dragon> (2021), taking over Ryohei Otani’s role as Junsa, a Japanese soldier who surrendered and acted as a spy for Admiral Yi Sunshin.Less