Lee Sun-kyun
Lee Sun-kyun (March 2, 1975 – December 27, 2023) was a South Korean actor. He was best known for his roles in the films, Helpless (2012), romantic comedy All About My Wife (2012), and crime/black comedy A Hard Day (2014). He was also known for his role in the Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning black comedy film Parasite for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award along with his castmates. He received several other awards including nomination for an International Emmy Award.
After beginning his career in musical theatre, for many years Lee was relegated to minor and supporting roles onscreen, only getting to play lead characters in one-act dramas on KBS Drama City and MBC Best Theater. In one such Best Theater project, he worked with TV director Lee Yoon-jung on Taereung National Village (2005), which led to him being cast in her later series Coffee Prince in 2007. Coffee Prince, along with medical drama White Tower brought Lee mainstream popularity, which he followed with Pasta (2010), Golden Time (2012) and My Mister (2018).
Meanwhile, on the big screen, he received a Best Actor award from the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival for his role in Paju (2009), followed by critical acclaim for mystery thriller Helpless (2012), romantic comedy All About My Wife (2012), and crime/black comedy A Hard Day (2014). Lee also continues to collaborate with auteur Hong Sang-soo, and his arthouse films with Hong include Night and Day (2008), Oki's Movie (2010), and Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013). In 2019, he starred in Bong Joon-ho's Oscar-winning black comedy film Parasite.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 16.776 |
Birthday | 1975-03-02 |
Place of Birth | Seoul, South Korea |
Also Known As | Lee Seon-gyun , Ли Сон Гюн, Seon-gyun Lee, 이선균, Lee Sun Gyun, 李善均, Sun-kyun Lee, |
1995
A Single Spark
7.2/14
Activist and law school graduate Kim is being persecuted by the mid-’70s Park regime for trying to write a book about Jeon Tae-il, a union activist wh...
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A Single Spark
2009
Paju
6/20
A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and...
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Paju
2010
Petty Romance
6.4/21
A comic artist and an unemployed sex columnist are trying to work together in order to win a lucrative comic-book competition. An adult cartoon contes...
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Petty Romance
2004
R-Point
6.771/157
On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.
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R-Point
2010
Oki's Movie
6.7/50
Oki, a film student, gets involved in two relationships as she navigates the advances of a fellow student and grapples with her feelings for her much...
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Oki's Movie
2012
Helpless
7.1/79
A woman suddenly disappears. Her fiance then sets out to find her and, in the process, uncovers layers of dark hidden secrets.
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Helpless
2012
All About My Wife
6.7/45
A man asks a womanizer to seduce his wife in order to catalyze a divorce.
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All About My Wife
2010
Our Slightly Risque Relationship
4/1
Dong Chan is a prickly broadcasting director at MBS who meets and immediately clashes with Nam Hee, a reporter he meets at a wedding reception. Throug...
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Our Slightly Risque Relationship
2023
Sleep
6.709/148
Hyun-su and Soo-jin have just gotten married. Seemingly out of nowhere, he starts talking in his sleep. 'Someone’s inside.' From that night forward, w...
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Sleep
2013
Our Sunhi
6.5/42
Sunhi, a film major graduate, visits her school to ask her Professor Choi for a recommendation letter to study in U.S. Knowing the professor favors he...
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Our Sunhi
2011
Officer of the Year
6.8/28
Two police stations from neighboring precincts are in constant fierce competition with each other, including for the Officer of the Year award. But th...
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Officer of the Year
2013
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
6.3/53
Hae-won, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seong-jun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who i...
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Nobody's Daughter Haewon
2014
A Hard Day
7.1/439
After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed t...
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A Hard Day
2008
Night and Day
6.9/34
Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to...
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Night and Day
2008
Sorry Apple
6.9/9
A woman breaks up with her boyfriend of seven years. Devastated, she throws herself into another relationship and decides to get married, only to have...
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Sorry Apple
2002
Surprise Party
6.7/6
How do you go about detaining a total stranger for 12 hours? This is what Ha-young (Lee Yo-won) has to do for her best friend, Mi-ryung (Kim Min-hee)....
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Surprise Party
2008
Romantic Island
6.4/9
Three Korean couples travel separately to the Philippines. A middle aged couple first time abroad, a convenience store clerk bumps into an incognito p...
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Romantic Island
2009
Lost in the Mountains
6.4/16
Hong Sang-soo's Lost in the Mountains depicts Mi-sook's suffering when she discovers her friend Jin-young has been secretly sleeping with her lover.
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Lost in the Mountains
2015
The Advocate: A Missing Body
7.2/37
When his client suddenly confesses to murder in open court, a hotshot attorney embarks on a search for truth to redeem his ruined reputation.
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The Advocate: A Missing Body
2003
Show Show Show
0/0
San-hae has a habit for chasing unreachable dreams but never attaining them. His best friend, Sang-chul, is yet to find direction in his life but alwa...
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Show Show Show
2003
Scent of Love
6.4/10
After much trials and tribulations, a man marries his first love. But when she gets pregnant, they find out that she has cancer.
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Scent of Love
2017
A Special Lady
6.068/22
A corrupt prosecutor plans for revenge against Hyun-jung's crime organization by using her loyal partner, Sang-hoon.
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A Special Lady
2017
The King's Case Note
7.1/16
A clever king of Joseon and his brilliant chronicler hunt for the truth behind a crime that threatens the throne and the stability of the country.
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The King's Case Note
2006
A Cruel Attendance
5.6/5
A financially desperate salaryman teams up with his friend to kidnap a rich girl to make a quick buck. But then he gets a call and learns that his own...
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A Cruel Attendance
2006
The Customer Is Always Right
5.5/8
In a peaceful barbershop, a timid barber confronts a stranger who has started to send blackmail notes. Whenever the stranger comes to the barbershop,...
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The Customer Is Always Right
2004
My Mother the Mermaid
6.5/17
Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice....
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My Mother the Mermaid
2018
Take Point
6.933/112
On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea's politician in...
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Take Point
2019
Parasite
8.5/18383
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpe...
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Parasite
2007
Our Town
5.675/20
A writer kills his landlady and stages the body to look like the work of an active serial killer. Anxious that the police might figure out the truth,...
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Our Town
2022
Kingmaker
7.2/24
Seo Chang-dae, an ambitious political campaign strategist who ends up having ideological differences with his present client, receives a lucrative off...
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Kingmaker
2019
Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage
6.1/115
On the run from a dogged internal affairs agent, a corrupt cop reluctantly teams up with a defiant teen to unravel a conspiracy before it's too late.
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Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage
2020
Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP
6.8/26
A zoophobic national security agent suddenly receives the ability to talk to animals after a freak accident.
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Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP
2024
Project Silence
7/259
Due to sudden deteriorating weather conditions, visibility on the Airport Bridge is severely impaired, leaving people stranded and at risk of the brid...
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Project Silence
2023
Killing Romance
6.353/17
Hwang Yeo-rae, a once-popular actress, faces a turbulent marriage and yearns for her old career. When she moves in next to Kim Beom-woo, her biggest f...
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Killing Romance
2002
A Perfect Match
5.9/7
Despite the fact that she works at a professional matchmaking firm, Hyo Jin cannot seem to find her Perfect match. When it comes to finding matches fo...
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A Perfect Match
2004
Love, So Divine
6.6/27
Kyu-sik is a seminary student, who one day falls during a church service, dropping a precious, pope-blessed relic. As punishment, he and his comic rel...
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Love, So Divine
2002
Boss X File
4/4
In order to bust a money laundering ring, the cops must work undercover at a hostess bar. Zaniness ensues as we witness policewomen masquerading as ho...
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Boss X File
2009
Visitors
4.9/9
Hong Sang-Soo’s Lost in the Mountains (South Korea, 32min) the visitor is the supremely self-centred Mi-Sook, who drives to Jeonju on impulse to see h...
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Visitors
2002
Make It Big
6.6/7
A detective and a gang of thieves trail three high-school students who found a bloody corpse and a bag of cash on top of their car.
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Make It Big
2017
Man of Will
7.5/13
Young Kim Chang-soo is placed behind bars, charged with murdering a Japanese person who took part in Empress Myeongseong's assassination. In prison, K...
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Man of Will
2024
Land of Happiness
6.8/9
October 26, 1979, a presidential assassination shakes the nation. Taking on the defense of Park Tae-joo, the secretary involved in the presidential as...
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