![]() After spending time in 2002 directing a series of music videos and appearing in a large number of commercials, Jung took on the eccentric lead role in Mutt Boy, the fifth film by director Kwak Kyung-taek. In the epic blockbuster, Jung played opposite Chinese star Zhang Ziyi and received wide exposure abroad as well as in Korea. Ģ001's Musa marked his third collaboration with director Kim Sung-su. Jung later played a naval lieutenant in Phantom: The Submarine and a marathoner in Love. His co-lead in the movie, actor Lee Jung-jae, became his lifelong friend. In 1999, he starred in director City of the Rising Sun, playing an unsuccessful boxer who forms a friendship with an unlucky swindler. The movie brought Jung widespread fame and started his rise to Korea's A-list actor and one of the most sought-after commercial models. ĭirected by Kim Sung-su, Beat is a story of a high school student forced into gang life. He debuted together with actress Ko So-young, who later co-starred with him twice including in his breakthrough 1997 film Beat. Jung Woo-sung made his film debut with a leading role in 1994's The Fox with Nine Tails, one of the first Korean fantasy movies and the first to use computer-generated imagery. When trying to break into the film industry, he was told he was too tall to become an actor, so he first worked as a model. He was tall in elementary school, his height causing him to constantly hunch. He never hid this fact or regretted doing so. He gave up studying, dropping out of high school after one year, to work and thus support the family budget. Jung grew up in Sadang-dong, then one of the poorest neighborhoods in Seoul. His other prominent roles were in high-budget espionage TV series Athena: Goddess of War (2010) and the romantic drama Padam Padam (2011). For his first major TV drama part in Asphalt Man (1995) he won Best New Actor at SBS Drama Awards and at the 32nd Baeksang Arts Awards (TV). He is also an accomplished television actor. His critically acclaimed film Innocent Witness (2019) won him Best Actor at the 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Daesang (Grand Prize) for Film at the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards. He is a versatile actor known for playing leading roles in a wide spectrum of genres including high-grossing box office hits: Steel Rain (2017), The King (2017), Asura: The City of Madness (2016), The Divine Move (2014), Cold Eyes (2013) martial arts film: Reign of Assassins (2010), fantasy: The Restless (2006) dramas: Don't Forget Me (2016), City of the Rising Sun (1998), erotic thriller Scarlet Innocence (2014) romantic films: A Good Rain Knows (2009), Daisy (2006), A Moment to Remember (2004) and historical epic Musa (2001). Jung is also widely popular in other Asian countries, notably in Japan. Jung started his career as a fashion model, rising to stardom and teenage cult status with the gangster film Beat (1997), for which he won Best New Actor at the 17th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards. Jung Woo-sung (born April 22, 1973) is a South Korean actor and the first Korean UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.
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