Park Haesoo, born in 1981, studied acting at Dankook University before starting his acting career on stage in 2007, in the musical <Mr. Lobby>. Having made his name through several stage performances and won Best New Actor at the Korean Theatre Grand Awards, he moved to television in 2012 when he joined the extensive cast of the Goryeo Era-set drama series <God of War> (2012). Despite appearances in the courtroom drama <The Unfair> (2013) and the hit thrille...More

Park Haesoo, born in 1981, studied acting at Dankook University before starting his acting career on stage in 2007, in the musical <Mr. Lobby>. Having made his name through several stage performances and won Best New Actor at the Korean Theatre Grand Awards, he moved to television in 2012 when he joined the extensive cast of the Goryeo Era-set drama series <God of War> (2012). Despite appearances in the courtroom drama <The Unfair> (2013) and the hit thriller <Master> (2016), Parl was first brought to the attention of viewers when he played the dual roles of a Joseon-era official and a modern-day police officer in the fantasy drama series <Six Flying Dragons> (2015-2016). He later gained wider recognition with his top-billing role in the series <Prison Playbook> (2017-2018), for which he received the Baeksang Art Award for Best New Actor in Television. In 2019, he was seen in <Collector>, Yim Pilsung’s segment of the Netflix anthology film <Persona> (2019), and he later starred in the drug scandal thriller <By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture> (2019), for which he received Best New Actor from both the Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Chunsa Film Festival. In the dystopian thriller <Time to Hunt> (2020), he played a ruthless hitman tracking down a group of friends who attempted to steal from an illegal gambling house. He was catapulted to global fame in 2021 when he starred in the surprise phenomenal hit Netflix series <Squid Game>. Less