South Korean actressIn this Korean name, the family name is Kim.

Kim Hye-soo (Korean::김혜수; born September 5, 1970) is a South Korean actress. Kim was one of the most popular teen stars in the 1980s and 1990s. She is known for her headstrong independence and self-confidence.

Kim was featured in a commercial for Nestlé Milo in 1985, which made her debut as a leading actress in the film Kambo (1986) and was awarded for Best New Actress at 1987 Baeksang Arts Awards. She won Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Leading Actress for First Love (1993) as the youngest winner in history, but this was followed by a series of commercial failures, including Hypnotized (2004), which made her won both Baeksang Arts Awards and Grand Bell Awards for Best Actress. Her role as Madam Jeong in the crime film Tazza: The High Rollers (2006) brought her box office success, as well as her role in The Thieves (2012).

Aside from her performances in films, Kim has appeared in many successful television series, including Partner (1994-1998), Did We Really Love? (1999), Jang Hee Bin (2002), The Queen of Office (2013), Signal (2016), Hyena (2020), and Juvenile Justice (2022).

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Career
  • 2.1 1985-1991: Career beginnings and break into cinema
  • 2.2 1992-1998: Television series and film success
  • 2.3 1999-2004: Career setbacks
  • 2.4 2005-2011: Revival by Tazza
  • 2.5 2012-2015: Films success
  • 2.6 2016-Present: The second peak of career on television seires
• 3 Personal life
  • 3.1 Public image and character
  • 3.2 Relationship
  • 3.3 Philanthropy
• 4 Filmography
  • 4.1 Film
  • 4.2 Television series
  • 4.3 Web series
  • 4.4 Hosting
• 5 Discography
• 6 Awards and nominations
• 7 Listicles
• 8 Notes
• 9 References
  • 9.1 Sources
• 10 External links

Early life and education

Kim Hye-soo was born on September 5, 1970, in Busan, Dongnae District, the second of five children. She moved to Seoul Midong Elementary School while she was at the third grade of Busan National Elementary School due to her father's work. When she was in Seoul Midong Elementary School, she was the only female member of the national Taekwondo children's demonstration team. In April 1982, Kim played the role as a flower girl to give a bouquet to Juan Antonio Samaranch, the seventh President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and that she proudly claimed herself as a Taekwondo master through various media.

Career

1985-1991: Career beginnings and break into cinema

In 1985, Kim was featured in a commercial for Nestlé Milo and was also appeared in Cho Yong-pil's *le song Empty In The Air music video, which was the first music video in K-pop history.Kim Hye-soo debuted in the 1986 film Kambo when she was a first-year high school student. After she won Best New Actress for Kambo at 23rd Baeksang Arts Awards, Kim played the leading roles in the television series Samogok (1987), Sun Shim-yi (1988), Senoya (1989). She appeared in When The Flowers Bloom And The Birds Cry (1990) portraying a married woman while she co-starred with Roh Joo-hyun, 25 years older than her. In 1991, she landed the main role in Lost Love.

1992-1998: Television series and film success

Kim was referred to as one of "Pencil board Star of 1980s" and "The Troika of 1990s" in Korea. In 1993, Kim leaded the main role in the film First Love and gained critical acclaim for her portrayal of the innocent and cute girl, unexpectedly winning a Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Leading Actress and garnering her the *le, "Nation's First Love" although the film was a box-office failure.

1999-2004: Career setbacks

Over two decades, she am*ed a sizeable filmography of leading and supporting roles, notably in the television series Did We Really Love? with Bae Yong-joon and Revenge and P*ion with Ahn Jae-wook, as well as the films First Love (1993) and Tie a Yellow Ribbon (1998).In the 2000s, Kim started to appear more on the silver screen, appearing in movies such as Kick the Moon, YMCA Baseball Team and Three. However, it was when she reinvented her image as a glamorous and confident femme fatale in films Hypnotized (2004),

2005-2011: Revival by Tazza

The Red Shoes (2005) and Tazza: The High Rollers (2006) that she gained acting recognition and entered the Korean film industry A-list. Various film roles followed, such as a housewife who secretly dates a college student in A Good Day to Have an Affair; an unaffected aunt in Shim's Family; a pros*ute in Eleventh Mom and a bar singer in Modern Boy (2008). She considers her collaboration with Han Suk-kyu in 2010's Villain and Widow as one of the highlights of her acting career.In 2009, Kim returned to television with Style, which is set in the fashion industry. She followed that with the mystery melodrama Home Sweet Home in 2010.

A frequent host of film awards ceremonies and TV variety shows, Kim was signed on as the host of MBC current affairs show W. The production team said that in a bid to make changes in the program as it marked its fifth anniversary, they found that Kim was interested in environmental and other global issues and an avid watcher of do*entaries about them. W with Kim Hye-soo premiered in July 2010, but was cancelled in October 2010, with Kim criticizing the network's decision.

Kim with Yoo Jun-sang at the 34th Blue Dragon Film Awards in 2013.

2012-2015: Films success

In 2012, she reunited with Tazza director Choi Dong-hoon in The Thieves. Set among the casinos of Macau, the star-studded heist film became the all-time second highest grosser in Korean cinema history. This was followed with a supporting role in Han Jae-rim's historical film The Face Reader.

In 2013, she headlined the romantic comedy The Queen of Office (also known as Goddess of the Workplace), an adaptation of 2007 *anese drama Haken no Hinkaku ("Pride of the Temp").

Kim next starred in Coin Locker Girl (also known as Chinatown) in 2015, a rare female-driven noir film. She said she didn't mind looking unattractive for her role as a ruthless crime boss, with makeup artists adding age spots to her face, gray to her hair, and flab to her stomach and hips with prostheses. Kim said it was "mentally agonizing" deciding whether to accept the role, but once she did, she felt "a surge of excitement" every time she stepped onto the set, and considered the film "a new challenge that makes my heart race and scares me at the same time."

2016-Present: The second peak of career on television seires

Kim made her small-screen comeback in 2016 with tvN's Signal, which was both critically and commercially successful. She won Best Actress at the 52nd Baeksang Arts Awards and the tvN10 Awards for her performance.

Kim then returned to the big screen, starring in the family drama film Familyhood followed by noir film A Special Lady.

In 2018, Kim starred in the IMF crisis film, Default, alongside Yoo Ah-in. She has also been cast in the science fiction film Return.

In 2020, Kim starred in the legal drama Hyena.

Personal life

Public image and character

Kim has been a popular Korean sex symbol since she wore low-cut dress as a Blue Dragon Film Awards host and Best Actress winner in 1993, and was emblematic of the era's sexual revolution.

"First of all, I write down everything that comes into my eyes. In the case of an artist, I am not a casting director, but I remember and recommend it when there is a good work or a character that is suitable for the actor has come out. If you look at my memo, there is the person who are over 70 years old.

In general, if you remember the days when an actor wasn't in the spotlight but got impressed by yourself, 'Huh? I saw that actor before. I thought it was really good.' Don't you want to say that? The same goes for me. It's best when I'm with good actors."

— Kim Hye-soo on Familyhood interview

Kim is known for taking good care of younger actors, to the extent that her co-star Ma Dong-seok in the fillm Familyhood has described her as "the most considerate person to care for others."Her co-star Lee Sang-hee in the TV series Juvenile Justice said "Kim would write down those unknown actors' names when she thought their acting is good, and that she could recommend them for suitable scripts."Kim's words has encouraged many actresses, including Son Ye-jin, Han Ji-min, Kim Nam-joo,and Yum Jung-ah.

Kim has a bachelor's in theater and film from Dongguk University and a master's in journalism and m* communications from Sungkyunkwan University; she also taught performing arts at Sungkyunkwan University as an adjunct professor in 2001. In 2013 Kim admitted to having plagiarized her master's thesis "A Study on Actor Communication," with parts copied verbatim from at least four books. She apologized for her actions and said she was willing to forfeit her master's degree.

Relationship

Kim and character actor Yoo Hae-jin first met in 2001 after shooting the film Kick the Moon and became close in 2006 after appearing together in Tazza: The High Rollers. Rumors of the two dating surfaced starting 2008 although both continuously denied any romantic involvement until early 2010 when paparazzi photographs of the two were released, and the couple officially confirmed their relationship. Kim and Yoo broke up in 2011.

Philanthropy

In 2008, Kim donated the full amount of the narration fees of the do*entary film "Forgiveness, Are You at the End of the Way" to the crime victim support fund. In April, 2009, Kim displayed her pop art at the Seoul Open Art Fair. One of her collage paintings was sold for ₩5 million, and she donated all the money to charity. On July 7, 2009, Kim participated in the "Style Meets Art" campaign co-hosted by cable channel OnStyle and Korean National Commission for UNESCO and she donated the proceeds of her donated works to Korean National Commission for UNESCO.

During COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Kim donated ₩100 million to Hope Bridge Disaster Relief *ociation for all citizens getting through the shortage of masks.

In April, 2019, Kim donated the amount of money for forest fire victims affected by Goseong Fire of 2019. On March 7, 2022, Kim donated ₩100 million to the Hope Bridge Disaster Relief *ociation to help the victims of the 2022 Uljin and Samcheok wildfire:, and her donation will be used as emergency relief funds.

Filmography

Film

Television series

Web series

Hosting

Discography

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Kim Hye-soo

Listicles

Notes

References

Sources

• Kim, Jung-woo; Yim, Jung-sik; Yoon, Yeo-kwang; Kim, In-gu (2014). 김혜수 - 스타 이미지 탐구 2권 (in Korean). 이지북 EZbook. ISBN:978-89-5624-439-6.

External links

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• Kim Hye-soo at the Korean Movie Database
• Kim Hye-soo at IMDb