A well-known face in TV, films and on the stage, JANG Yeong-nam is a veteran performer. After graduating from the Seoul Institute of Arts she made her silver screen debut in 1997’s Push! Push! and later made a mark in the JANG Jin romantic comedy Someone Special (2004). Subsequently she has excelled in a number of roles, frequently as mothers or harsh characters. Her filmography includes IM Pil-seong’s Hansel & Gretel (2007), My Girlfriend Is an Agent (2009), Harmony ...More

A well-known face in TV, films and on the stage, JANG Yeong-nam is a veteran performer. After graduating from the Seoul Institute of Arts she made her silver screen debut in 1997’s Push! Push! and later made a mark in the JANG Jin romantic comedy Someone Special (2004). Subsequently she has excelled in a number of roles, frequently as mothers or harsh characters. Her filmography includes IM Pil-seong’s Hansel & Gretel (2007), My Girlfriend Is an Agent (2009), Harmony (2010) and Hindsight (2011). But 2012 was her biggest year yet as she appeared in the successful thriller Neighbors, the blockbuster fantasy romance hit A Werewolf Boy and took on the lead role in the low-budget revenge film Azooma, for which she was awarded Best Actress by the Producer’s Guild of Korea at the Busan International Film Festival.Less