JEON Do-yeon, winner of the Best Actress award at Cannes for her role in <Secret Sunshine>, is like a piece of white paper. A single touch of the brush and a sketch of the outline create a completely different image for her. It is amazing how deftly she can spin her image from a blank white paper to a multicolored picture. From <Happy End>’s femme fatale who gave a sleeping pill to her new-born baby to meet her lover ([JOO Jin-mo]) to <The Harmonium in My Me...More

JEON Do-yeon, winner of the Best Actress award at Cannes for her role in <Secret Sunshine>, is like a piece of white paper. A single touch of the brush and a sketch of the outline create a completely different image for her. It is amazing how deftly she can spin her image from a blank white paper to a multicolored picture. From <Happy End>’s femme fatale who gave a sleeping pill to her new-born baby to meet her lover ([JOO Jin-mo]) to <The Harmonium in My Memory>’s old elementary student who had a crush on her teacher ([LEE Byung-hun]), she depicted two extreme characters. She played a strong, battle-hardened woman in <No Blood, No Tears> and a morally upright widow who fell victim to a Casanova played by [BAE Yong-joon] in <Untold Scandal>. Slipping in and out of different characters, she delivered her best performances in <You Are My Sunshine> and <Secret Sunshine>. She played a HIV-positive prostitute who fell in love and a mother who wailed at the loss of her son in <Secret Sunshine>. For her performance in <Secret Sunshine>, she received rave critical reviews and the Best Actress award at Cannes. She was also invited to the Cannes Film Festival for her role in <The Housemaid>. 2011 saw JEON in a rare genre film appearance in <Countdown>, in which she starred as a strikingly beautiful grifter alongside [JUNG Jae-young]. JEON took on her next role in PANG Eun-jin’s drama <Way Back Home>, in which she appeared as a mother and wife who ends up unfairly incarcerated in a distant country. The star earned many plaudits for her performance. She next appeared in the 2014 period blockbuster <Memories of the Sword> alongside LEE Byung-hun. Also in 2015, she teamed up with LEE Yoon-ki for the steamy romantic drama <A Man and a Woman>, which she shot with GONG Yoo in Finland, and also <The Shameless>, the new OH Seung-uk, in which she played the girlfriend of a murder suspect who becomes involved with the detective investigating his cast, played by KIM Nam-gil. The film saw her return to the Croisette, as it was invited to screen at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section.

Awards
’09 Order of Arts and Letters: Knighthood
’08 Asian Film Awards, Best Actress Award
’07 Director’s Cut Awards, Best Actress Award
’07 Women’s Film Festival, Actress of the Year Award
’07 Korea Film Critics Association Awards, Best Actress Award
’07 Korean Movie Awards, Best Actress Award
’07 Blue Dragon Awards, Best Actress Award
’07 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Best Actress Award
’07 The Daejong Film Festival, Special Award
’07 Cannes International Film Festival, Best Actress Award
’07 Culture Medal
’06 The Daejong Film Festival, Best Actress Award
’06 Max Movie Awards, Best Actress Award
’05 Chunsa NaWungyu Film Festival, Best Actress Award
’05 SBS Movie Awards, Top 10 Star Award
’05 Korea Film Critics Association Awards, Best Actress Award
’05 Korean Movie Awards, Best Actress Award
’05 Women’s Film Festival, Best Actress Award

Debut
’90 Commercial <Johnson & Johnson>

Drama
’05 SBS <Lovers in Prague>
’02 SBS <Shoot for the Stars>
’98 MBC <Predates It Was Not Lost>
’97 SBS <Snail>
’96 MBC <Star In My Heart>
’96 KBS2 <Love Until You>
’96 KBS2 <Project>
’95 KBS2 <Young Man’s Note>
’94 MBC <General Hospital>
’93 SBS <Scent of Love>
’92 MBC <Our Heavens 2>

Movies
’14 <Memories of the Sword> - Seol-rang
’13 <Way Back Home> - SONG Jeong-yeon
’11 <Countdown> - CHA Ha-yeon
’10 <The Housemaid> - Eun-eui
’08 <My Dear Enemy> - KIM Hee-soo
’07 <Secret Sunshine> - LEE Shin-ae
’05 <You are my Destiny> - JEON Eun-ha
’04 <Mermaid> - KIM Na-young / CHO Yeon-soon
’03 <Untold Scandal> - Jung
’02 <No Blood No Tears> - Su-jin
’01 <I Wish I Had a Wife> - Jung Wo Neo Ju
’99 <Happy End> - CHOI Bo-ra
’99 <The Harmonium in my Memory> - Hong-yeon
’98 <Promise> - CHAE Hee-ju
’97 <The Contact> - Su-hyeonLess