JEON Do-yeon is the winner of the Best Actress at Cannes and numerous other festivals and awards. From a femme fatale who gives a sleeping pill to her new-born baby for her lover in <Happy End> (1999) to an old elementary student who has a crush on her teacher in <The Harmonium in My Memory> (1999), JEON has perfectly played the parts of two extremes without losing her unique style and charm. In <No Blood, No tears> (2002), she is a strong, battle-hardened w...
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JEON Do-yeon is the winner of the Best Actress at Cannes and numerous other festivals and awards. From a femme fatale who gives a sleeping pill to her new-born baby for her lover in <Happy End> (1999) to an old elementary student who has a crush on her teacher in <The Harmonium in My Memory> (1999), JEON has perfectly played the parts of two extremes without losing her unique style and charm. In <No Blood, No tears> (2002), she is a strong, battle-hardened woman while in <Untold Scandal> (2003) she is a morally upright widow who fell victim to a Casanova. Slipping in and out of different characters, she delivered her striking performances as a HIV-positive prostitute who fell in love in <You Are My Sunshine> (2005) and a mother who wailed at the loss of her son <Secret Sunshine> (2007). 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> (2010). 2011 saw JEON in a rare genre film appearance in <Countdown>. JEON took on her next role in PANG Eun-jin’s drama <Way Back Home> (2013), 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. In 2015, she starred in OH Seung-uk’s <The Shameless> in which she played the girlfriend of a murder suspect who becomes involved with the detective (played by KIM Nam-gil) investigating the case. The film was invited to screen at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section. In 2019, JEON earned more Best Actress awards with her performance in LEE Jong-un's <Birthday> in which she played a mother who lost her son in the tragic Sewol Ferry incident.
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