Jihae
Jihae was born on Feb 07, 1989 in South Korea. Jihae's big-screen debut came with 2B directed by Richard Kroehling in 2009. Jihae is known for Mars directed by Everardo Gout, Jihae stars as Hana Seung and Alberto Ammann as Javier Delgado. The most recent award Jihae achieved is Screen Actors Guild Awards. The upcoming new movie Jihae plays is Mortal Engines which will be released on Dec 14, 2018.
Jihae is a South Korea-born actress, musician, and multimedia artist. She recurred on HBO's Emmy-winning drama Succession Season 3 as Berry Schneider, a public relations consultant. Jihae won a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for this role.She guest-starred in the 2020 Season Two debut episode of Netflix series Altered Carbon. She played the torch singer in the compelling opening sequence performing the title track of her latest album, 'Illusion of You'. This song, produced by Dave Stewart (Eurythmics and Songland), is also played during the end credits. In addition, her performance of 'I Got You Under My Skin' by Cole Porter is also featured in the opening episode.In 2018 she starred in Peter Jackson's Mortal Engines as Anna Fang, a fierce resistance leader in the epic dystopian saga. David Ehrlich of 'Indiewire' raved about Jihae's performance. She garnered critical acclaim from Rolling Stone, who claimed, "Jihae has an illegal amount of screen presence." V Magazine called her "a real-life superhero." The film, co-starring Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, and Robert Sheehan was released worldwide by MRC and Universal Pictures.Jihae starred in the television series Mars. She played a set of twin sisters: the commander of the first human colony on Mars and the Secretary-General of Space Agency on earth. Produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, the show's second season aired on Nat Geo TV in November 2018 across 171 countries.Jihae's professional path began with a BA degree in Political Science at Emory University, following the footsteps of her diplomat father. However, with a trained opera singer and piano teacher for a mother, Jihae's passion for music and songwriting led her to pursue a career as an independent artist after graduation.On Human Rights Day 2018, she released a single called 'Let's Come Together.' The song was written and performed by Jihae and was arranged by Oscar-winning composer/producer Teese Gohl, also performing on piano. The choir is sung by the students and faculty at The Putney School. 'Let's Come Together' is a song to give a voice to displaced people worldwide. 100% of the songwriter's proceeds went to the International Medical Corps program for Children and Women's Health.Jihae launched her record label and released her first album, 'My Heart Is An Elephant' in 2007, featuring a collaboration with Lenny Kravitz on guitar and bass and filmmaker Michel Gondry on drums. Her fourth and latest LP, 'Illusion of You,' features her co-write with the legendary Leonard Cohen on the song, 'Just Feels.' Illusion was lauded, 'Beautiful, mystical and poetic' by the New York Times. The Wall Street Journal described it as 'Downtown cool from Lou Reed to Deborah Harry to The Strokes all in one.'Jihae wrote, produced, and starred in a multimedia rock opera based on her third album, 'Fire Burning Rain,' co-created and directed by Academy Award-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley. She also curated a dozen artists for the Fire Burning Rain group art exhibit, including artworks from Anna Gaskell, Marco Brambilla, and Ouattara Watts. She has performed at the London Olympics, Cannes Film Festival, and the United Nations General Assembly. In addition to donating her time and performance to various nonprofits, including Hillary Clinton's Hours Against Hate, No Kid Hungry, and Acumen Funds, Jihae founded Let's Come Together, a creative platform to unite people for human rights.Her latest art project involves the first multimedia cow sculpture for the 100th Cow Parade in NYC in which she designed 'Ether,' a motion-triggered cow that speaks and sings. A sonic and visual composition of Ether is displayed as a shepherd's call in reverse, representing one million plant and animal species facing extinction, as they call humanity back into harmony with nature to awaken us to the urgency of the climate systems nearing tipping points of no return.
Birthday
Feb 07, 1989Place of Birth
Seoul, South Korea
Known For
Awards
2 wins & 0 nominations
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