Born in 1977, Heo Sungtae majored in Russian and had long been in charge of selling TVs in the Russian market, before he joined the planning and coordination department of a shipbuilding company. In 2011, he started his acting career at the age of 34 after entering the TV talent show <Miraculous Audition>. Just a decade later, Heo has accumulated a large number of credits in films and TV series, mostly in bit parts and supporting roles, including Lee Wonsuk’s period ...More

Born in 1977, Heo Sungtae majored in Russian and had long been in charge of selling TVs in the Russian market, before he joined the planning and coordination department of a shipbuilding company. In 2011, he started his acting career at the age of 34 after entering the TV talent show <Miraculous Audition>. Just a decade later, Heo has accumulated a large number of credits in films and TV series, mostly in bit parts and supporting roles, including Lee Wonsuk’s period fashion drama <The Royal Tailor> (2014). Yet, he became well-known to the general public through a particular scene in Kim Jeewoon’s <The Age of Shadows> in which he gets unceremoniously slapped in the face by Song Kangho. Before long, people started to recognize him in the 2017’s Chuseok holidays hit <THE OUTLAWS> (2017) and the critically acclaimed royal court drama <The Fortress> (2017). After an appearance in the period zombie flick <Rampant> (2018), Heo interpreted a high-ranked officer of the Japanese police tracking down a secret society attempting to compile a Korean dictionary in the historical drama <MAL•MO•E: The Secret Mission> (2018). He was brought to international fame in 2021 when he played a crook taking part in the death game in the hit Netflix series <Squid Game>.Less