Born in 1951, KIM Su-mi attended Korea University before emerging from MBC’s third talent competition in 1971. Though KIM did appear in films, the actress was mainly active on the small screen through the 1970s and 80s, work for which she won numerous accolades from MBC’s annual awards shows. Her film career began in earnest in 2003, but it really took off in 2005, when she appeared in the gangster comedy hit <Marrying the Mafia>, which would eventually spawn four s...More

Born in 1951, KIM Su-mi attended Korea University before emerging from MBC’s third talent competition in 1971. Though KIM did appear in films, the actress was mainly active on the small screen through the 1970s and 80s, work for which she won numerous accolades from MBC’s annual awards shows. Her film career began in earnest in 2003, but it really took off in 2005, when she appeared in the gangster comedy hit <Marrying the Mafia>, which would eventually spawn four sequels, all of which she was involved in, as well as <Mapado>, another gangster comedy hit which also led to a new instalment (which she again appeared in). Her abrasive, no-nonsense and quick-talking senior characters have had audiences in stitches for the best part of a decade and her popularity has at no point shown any signs of fading. Her other notable films have included E J-yong’s kaleidoscopic high school film <Dasepo Naughty Girls> (2006), the romcom <Unstoppable Family> (2007), the geriatric caper film <Twilight Gangsters> (2010), the elderly romance <Late Blossom> (2011), and the star-crossed lovers riff <Meet the In-Laws> (2011). Recognizing her popularity, Next Entertainment World gave KIM her own film in 2015, <Granny’s Got Talent>, in which she played a foul-mouthed grandmother who enters a swearing contest when she is released from jail. Less