Teo Yoo

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1981-04-11 (43 years old)

Place of Birth Cologne, Germany

Also Known As 유태오, Тео Ю, Ю Тхэ-о, Yoo Te-oh, Tschi-Hun Kim, 김치훈, 刘台午

Teo Yoo

Biography

Yoo Teo (born April 11, 1981 in Cologne, Germany) is a German-South Korean actor. Yoo Teo, also known by the Western name Teo Yoo, was born in Cologne on April 11, 1981 as the son of South Korean guest workers. He was a passionate basketball player in his youth, but gave it up after an injury and focused on acting. He went to the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. Yoo speaks fluent English, German and Korean. He has appeared in productions in various countries. At the beginning of his career, he had several supporting roles in South Korean films, including One on One (2014) by Kim Ki-duk. In 2015, he played one of the leading roles in the American production Seoul Searching by Korean-American director Benson Lee. The film is about young Koreans who grew up abroad and want to get to know their Korean heritage. Yoo plays Klaus Kim from Hamburg. He has also appeared in the science fiction film Equals, the Vietnamese film Bitcoin Heist (2016) and the Thai film Ruk Kong Rao (2017). In 2018, he played the lead role of Soviet rock musician Wiktor Zoi, the son of a Korean and a Russian, in Kirill Serebrennikov's Leto, which took him into competition at the Cannes International Film Festival. Yoo does not speak Russian and memorized the Russian lyrics phonetically for the role. Yoo said he considers himself Korean and has always wanted to act in South Korean films, but his Korean was not fluent for a long time. In 2019, he played the lead role in the film Vertigo alongside Chun Woo-hee. In the summer of 2024, Yoo Teo became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Known For

Actor

2024
Dirty Money

as Jang Ji-yang

2023
Past Lives

as Hae Sung

2023
Love to Hate You

as Nam Kang-ho

2023
The Seasons

as Self

2022
Decision to Leave

as Assistant Manager Lee

2021
2021
New Year Blues

as Rae-hwan

2021
Dr. Brain

as Secretary Yoon

2021
The Window

as Jae-Yeon Cho

2020
Pawn

as Deok-hwa

2020
2020
Money Game

as Yoo Jin-Han

2019
Black Money

as Steve Jung

2019
Vertigo

as Jin-su

2019
Chocolate

as Kwon Min-seong

2019
Vagabond

as Jerome / Park Su-chan

2019
2018
Leto

as Viktor Tsoi

2018
Movie Room

as Self

2018
2017
The Moment

as Kim

2017
Kim and Karn.

as Mr. Kim

2016
Bitcoin Heist

as Thomas

2015
Equals

as Peter

2015
Seoul Searching

as Klaus Kim

2014
One on One

as Shadow 3

2013
2012
Code Name: Jackal

as Mustache

2012
Shanghai Strangers

as The Lover

2012
Love Fiction

as Secretary

2010
Innocent When You Dream

as Gustav Verga

2010
Running Man

as Self

2009
Actresses

as Emil

2006
2005
Brooklyn Bound

as Tommy Woo

Director

2021
Log in Belgium

as Director

Editor

2021
Log in Belgium

as Editor

Sound

2021

Producer

2021
Log in Belgium

as Producer

Writer

2021
Log in Belgium

as Writer

Camera

2021
Log in Belgium

as Director of Photography