LEE Sun-kyun made a magnificent debut on stage as Brad, a lead role, in the musical <Rocky Horror Picture Show> but he found it was not easy to break into the film industry. He appeared as a doctor supporting the female lead fighting against cancer in <Scent of Love>, and as one of the lovebirds in <Love So Divine> but he was cast for small roles for quite a long time. He finally received good notices after appearing in <Sa-kwa>, an on-screen melodrama...More

LEE Sun-kyun made a magnificent debut on stage as Brad, a lead role, in the musical <Rocky Horror Picture Show> but he found it was not easy to break into the film industry. He appeared as a doctor supporting the female lead fighting against cancer in <Scent of Love>, and as one of the lovebirds in <Love So Divine> but he was cast for small roles for quite a long time. He finally received good notices after appearing in <Sa-kwa>, an on-screen melodrama, which received critical acclaim for its realistic portrayal of a romance. He played a sweet, romantic guy in the popular TV drama <Coffee Prince> but did not hold onto this nurtured image. Instead, he has polished his acting caliber by appearing in the films of [HONG Sangsoo], renowned for his realistic portrayal of ordinary life. He also played an international student from North Korea in <Night and Day> and a man used as “bait” by a woman wanting to provoke her boyfriend in <Lost in the Mountains>. He has appealed to the female spectators appearing in the TV drama <My Sweet City>, a story about the three female friends in their 30 trying to find their true love, another TV drama <Pasta>, a story of work and love set in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant, and the film <Petty Romance>, which is about the love of an adult cartoonist. These small and big screen projects have all found commercial success. LEE is one of Korea’s hottest heartthrob. In 2011, LEE co-starred with a veteran actor [PARK Joong-hoon] in a cop drama <Officer of the Year> and in 2012 he stormed the box office with [KIM Min-hee] in the romantic thriller <Helpless> and [LIM Soo-jung] in [MIN Kyu-dong]’s <All about My Wife>. LEE teamed up with HONG Sangsoo once more for <Nobody’s Daughter Haewon> and <Our Sunhi>, which took the Best Director Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2013. In 2014 he returned to the commercial realm as the lead of the mid-level thriller <A Hard Day>, which was invited to the Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight sidebar. On the back of that commercial and critical success, LEE starred alongside KIM Go-eun in <The Advocate : A Missing Body>, as an attorney who uncovers a mystery behind a murder case. Also in 2015, he starred in KANG Yi-kwan’s <Love Is a Virus>, in which a virus kills its hosts in five days, unless they fall in love.Less