Lee Jung-jae

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1972-12-15 (51 years old)

Place of Birth Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Also Known As Lee Jeong-Jae, Jung-Jae Lee, イ・ジョンジェ, И Жон-жэ, 李政宰

Lee Jung-jae

Biography

Lee Jung-jae (이정재) is a South Korean actor. Born on March 15, 1973, he began modeling in 1993 before getting his first acting roles the film The Young Man (1994) and the TV series Feelings (1994) and Sandglass (1995), which is one of the highest rated Korean dramas of all time with a peak rating of 64.5%. But his real breakthrough was with leading roles in award-winning films The Affair (1998) and City of the Rising Sun (1999). The latter of which earned him the Best Actor award at the prestigious Blue Dragon film awards. This was followed by a series of critical hits like Il Mare (2000) and commercial successes including Last Present (2001), The Last Witness (2001), Oh Brothers (2003), and the blockbuster Typhoon (2005). After a brief career slump of flop movies and tv shows, he returned with the critical and commercial hit The Housemaid (2010), which is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name. Since then, he went on to cement himself as one of Korea's biggest movie stars with a string of some of the biggest blockbusters in Korean history including The Thieves (2012), New World (2013), The Face Reader (2013), Assassination (2015), Operation Chromite (2016), and the Along with the Gods films (2017-2018). Most of these films did north of 12 million admissions at the domestic box-office, with The Thieves (2012) and Along with the Gods (2017) becoming the #2 biggest Korean hit in history at their respective time of release. He received a number of awards and nominations for these works including a Popularity Award at the prestigious Grand Bell awards. His most recent blockbuster is Deliver Us From Evil (2020) in which he reunited with his New World (2013) co-star Hwang Jung-min. It crossed 4 million admissions domestically and was the second biggest hit of the year in Korea.

Known For

Actor

Ray

as Ray

2024
Revolver

as Lim Seok-yong

2024
The Acolyte

as Master Sol

2022
Hunt

as Park Pyong-ho

2022
2021
Squid Game

as Seong Gi-hun

2021
Squid Game

as Seong Gi-hun / 'No. 456'

2021
2021
2020
Delayed Justice

as Jang Tae-Jun

2019
Trade Your Love

as Lawyer (cameo)

2019
Svaha: The Sixth Finger

as Pastor Park Ung-jae

2019
Modern Korea

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Chief of Staff

as Jang Tae-Joon

2018
Movie Room

as Self

2016
Operation Chromite

as Jang Hak-soo

2016
Tik Tok

as Kang Seung-joon

2015
Assassination

as Yeom Seok-jin

2014
Big Match

as Choi Ik-ho

2013
The Face Reader

as Grand Prince Soo-yang

2013
New World

as Lee Ja-sung

2012
The Thieves

as Popie

2010
2009
Triple

as Shin Hwal

2008
2007
Air City

as Kim Ji-sung

2005
Typhoon

as Gang Se-jong

2003
Oh! Brothers

as Oh Sang-woo

2002
Over the Rainbow

as Lee Jin-soo

2001
The Last Witness

as Detective Oh

2001
MOB 2025

as Dust

2001
Last Present

as Jung Yong-gi

2000
2000
Il Mare

as Han Sung-hyun

2000
Interview

as Eun-seok

1999
The Uprising

as Yi Jae-su

1999
1998
An Affair

as Woo In

1998
White Nights 3.98

as Lee Young-jun

1997
Park vs Park

as Park Su-sok

1997
Firebird

as Young-hoo

1997
달팽이

as Dong-cheol

1996
Albatross

as Pyeong-san

1995
사랑은 블루

as Na Jae-sung

1995
Sandglass

as Baek Jae-hee

1994
The Young Man

as Lee Han

1994
Feelings

as Joon

1993
Love is Oh Yeah!

as Blackguard 3

1993
공룡선생

as Jung-jae

Producer

Ray

as Producer

2022
Hunt

as Producer

Writer

2022
Hunt

as Writer

Director

2022
Hunt

as Director