Youn Yuh-jung
Known for: Acting
Born: June 19, 1947
Place of birth: Gaeseong, Gyeonggi, Korea
Youn Yuh-jung (Korean: 윤여정; pronounced [junjʌdʑʌŋ]; born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. Youn gained attention on Korean television in the late 1960s and rose to prominence with the film Woman of Fire (1971). She retired in the mid-1970s after marrying and immigrating to the United States. However, she returned to acting in the late 1980s following her divorce. Known as the "Godmother of Chungmu-ro," Youn's notable films include The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), The Bacchus Lady (2016) and Canola (2016), as well as a series of matriarch roles in television dramas such as Men of the Bath House (1995), Be Strong, Geum-soon! (2005), Daughters-in-Law (2007), My Husband Got a Family (2012) and Dear My Friends (2016). She gained international recognition for her role in Minari (2020), becoming the first Korean actress to win a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Independent Spirit Award, a British Academy Film Award, and an Academy Award, all for Best Supporting Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Youn Yuh-jung, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
38 movies · 56 TV shows, newest first
6.7
The Wedding Banquet
2025
NR
Sohn's Questions
2024
NR
Earl.
2024
7.6
Dog Days
2024
10.0
Nattering with Nah
2023
7.8
BEEF
2023
9.0
Youn's Unexpected Journey
2022
7.9
Pachinko
2022
7.1
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
2022
6.5
Heaven: To the Land of Happiness
2021
3.0
Be a Wicked Woman
2021
7.3
Minari
2021
NR
Next Entertainment, Visionary
2021
7.5
Youn Stay
2021
6.6
Lucky Chan-sil
2020
7.1
Beasts Clawing at Straws
2020
8.3
Never Twice
2019
10.0
Modern Korea
2019
6.3
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
8.3
You Quiz on the Block
2018
8.0
Keys to the Heart
2018
6.5
Master In The House
2017
6.5
Ladies Of The Forest
2017
8.9
Youn's Kitchen
2017
6.7
The Bacchus Lady
2016
7.9
Canola
2016
7.5
Dear My Friends
2016
7.0
Right Now, Wrong Then
2015
5.2
Intimate Enemies
2015
7.7
Sense8
2015
7.4
The Producers
2015
7.9
Salut d'Amour
2015
7.4
Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village
2014
6.7
Hill of Freedom
2014
3.9
Wonderful Days
2014
8.2
Noonas Over Flowers
2013
6.5
The Queen's Classroom
2013
6.8
Boomerang Family
2013
5.5
Behind the Camera
2013
6.1
In Another Country
2012
5.5
The Taste of Money
2012
7.1
The King 2 Hearts
2012
7.3
My Husband Got a Family
2012
NR
重複刪除
2012
6.0
List
2011
6.5
Hindsight
2011
5.9
Listen to My Heart
2011
5.0
Home Sweet Home
2010
6.3
The Housemaid
2010
6.3
Ha Ha Ha
2010
NR
Golden Fish
2010
6.9
The Actresses
2009
5.5
Heading to the Ground
2009
4.0
The Road Home
2009
6.8
Worlds Within
2008
NR
Chunja's Happy Events
2008
5.7
A Tale of Legendary Libido
2008
NR
Daughters-in-Law
2007
6.5
Hwang Jin Yi
2007
3.0
The Person I Love
2007
6.4
The Old Garden
2007
7.0
Maundy Thursday
2006
5.0
Pure in Heart
2006
NR
A Farewell to Sorrow
2005
7.7
Be Strong, Geum-soon!
2005
6.5
The President's Last Bang
2005
7.7
Springtime
2004
8.9
Ireland
2004
NR
Pearl Necklace
2003
5.7
A Good Lawyer's Wife
2003
9.0
Ruler of Your Own World
2002
NR
Who's My Love?
2002NR
사랑은 이런거야
2001
7.4
Hotelier
2001
6.0
Hur Jun
1999
7.0
Did We Really Love?
1999
NR
KAIST
1999
NR
내가 사는 이유
1997
NR
Open Your Heart
1996
9.0
목욕탕집 남자들
1995NR
산다는 것은
1993NR
How's Your Husband?
1993NR
여자의 방
1992
NR
What is Love?
1991
7.0
MBC Bests Theater
1991
NR
배반의 장미
1990
8.0
KBS Drama Awards
1987
9.0
Woman Requiem
1985
NR
The Day and Night of a Korean-American
1978
NR
Tto Sun Yi, a college girl
1973
5.1
Insect Woman
1972
4.8
Woman of Fire
1971
7.0
The Oscars
1953
NR
Haesol: The Soul Guide's Journey
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