Lee Jung-jae

Lee Jung-jae was born on Dec 15, 1972 in South Korea. Lee Jung-jae's big-screen debut came with Sandglass - Season 1 directed by Jong Hak Kim in 1995, strarring Baek Jae Hee. Lee Jung-jae is known for Squid Game directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, Lee Jung-jae stars as Seong Gi-hun and Park Hae-soo as Cho Sang-woo. Lee Jung-jae has got 25 awards and 30 nominations so far. The most recent award Lee Jung-jae achieved is Blue Dragon Awards. The upcoming new tvshow Lee Jung-jae plays is The Acolyte - Season 1 which will be released on Jan 01, 2024.

Apart from being a top star in film and TV, Jung-Jae Lee also works as a highly successful fashion model. One year after his debut on television in 1993, Lee was cast in his first film, a feature by Bae Chang-ho. His breakthrough came in late 1998 in the award-winning film An Affair by E-J Yong. This was followed up by another success, City of the Rising Sun, for which he received a Best Actor award at the domestic Chungryong Awards ceremony.After starring in the Korean-Japanese coproduction Asako in Ruby Shoes, released in December 2000, Lee found considerable popular success in a melodrama titled Last Present, where he was cast opposite Lee Young-ae, and in the action/mystery/drama The Last Witness directed by Bae Chang-ho. He is also scheduled to appear in an international coproduction to be shot in Korea and directed by Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige.