Yoo Yeon-seok
|Born|
|Education||Sejong University|
|Occupation||Actor|
|Years active||2003–present|
|Agent||King Kong Entertainment|
|Korean name|
|Hangul|
|Revised Romanization||Yu Yeon-seok|
|McCune–Reischauer||Yu Yŏnsŏk|
|Birth name|
|Hangul|
|Revised Romanization||An Yeon-seok|
|McCune–Reischauer||An Yŏnsŏk|
Yoo Yeon-seok (born Ahn Yeon-seok on April 11, 1984) is a South Korean actor. After making his acting debut in 2003 with a small role in Oldboy, he resumed his acting career in 2008. His notable works include the films Re-encounter (2011), Architecture 101 (2012), A Werewolf Boy (2012) and Whistle Blower (2014), Perfect Proposal (2015), Mood of the Day (2016) as well as the television series Reply 1994 (2013), Warm and Cozy (2015), Dr. Romantic (2016), Mr. Sunshine (2018) and Hospital Playlist (2020).
Early life[edit]
Yoo was born as Ahn Yeon-seok on April 11, 1984 in Jinju South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. In his junior year in high school, Yoo decided to take up acting and followed his brother, who was studying another year to enter university, to Seoul and they lived together near the district of Samseong-dong.[1]
While taking acting classes, Yoo met a friend who would later work on the costume staff of film director Park Chan-wook. Remembering that he resembled actor Yoo Ji-tae, he gave him a call about auditioning for a role. Without having to pass out his resume, he made his acting debut as Yoo Ji-tae's younger counterpart in the acclaimed 2003 film Oldboy.[1][2]
Upon graduation from Sejong University with a degree in Film Arts, he resumed his acting career in 2008 and began using his agency's recommendation stage name, Yoo Yeon-seok.
Career[edit]
2008–2012: Career beginnings[edit]
After an extended hiatus from acting, Yoo made his return in the medical drama General Hospital 2.[3]
Yoo took on supporting roles on television, such as the haughty student body president in the horror series Soul and more appealing characters in medical drama Midnight Hospital and Tasty Life.[4][5][6] But Yoo received his best reviews yet for playing a sensitive ex-boyfriend searching for his child in indie Re-encounter.[7][8]
Soon after he became known to mainstream audiences as the rich and spoiled antagonist in the box office hit melodramas Architecture 101,[9] and A Werewolf Boy.[10][11] He further raised his profile with comedy film Born to Sing,[12] and the fantasy series Gu Family Book.[13][14]
2013–present: Rising popularity[edit]
Yoo rose to popularity in the nostalgic campus drama Reply 1994 in late 2013.[15] Following his breakout year, he was cast in two high-profile films in 2014: Whistle Blower about infamous biotech researcher Hwang Woo-suk, and Joseon-set period drama The Royal Tailor.[16][17][18] Yoo then appeared in the travel-reality show Youth Over Flowers.[19][20]
In 2015, Yoo was cast in his first leading role on network television as a chef and restaurateur in the romantic comedy series Warm and Cozy, written by the Hong sisters and set on Jeju Island.[21] He also starred in the thriller Perfect Proposal (a remake of Woman of Straw), and The Beauty Inside (adapted from the social film of the same title).[22][23] Later in the year, Yoo played the protagonist in Le Passe-Muraille ("The Man Who Walked Through Wall"); this was his first stage musical since his professional acting debut (Yoo had previously appeared in theatrical productions while still in university).[24]
In 2016, Yoo starred in the period music drama Love, Lies followed by romantic comedy Mood of the Day.[25][26] He returned to the small screen with hit medical drama Dr. Romantic alongside Han Suk-kyu and Seo Hyun-jin.[27]
In 2018, Yoo starred in romance melodrama Mr. Sunshine penned by Kim Eun-sook.[28] To celebrate his 15th debut anniversary Yoo held a fan meeting titled “All About YOO”.[29] He then appeared in the musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.[30]
In 2020, Yoo starred in the critically acclaimed and hit medical drama Hospital Playlist.[31]
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
|Year||Title||Role||Notes|
|2003||Oldboy||Young Lee Woo-jin||Credit as Ahn Yeon-suk|
|2009||Short! Short! Short! 2009: Show Me the Money||Man||Segment: "Saw"|
|2011||Re-encounter||Han-soo||[32][33]|
|2012||Eighteen, Nineteen||Ho-ya||[34]|
|Architecture 101||Jae-wook||[35]|
|Two Weddings and a Funeral||Joon||Cameo[36]|
|Horror Stories||Man||Segment: "Beginning"[37]|
|A Werewolf Boy||Ji-tae||[38][39]|
|2013||Born to Sing||Dong-soo||[40]|
|Hwayi: A Monster Boy||Park Ji-won||[41]|
|2014||Whistle Blower||Shim Min-ho||[42][43]|
|The Royal Tailor||King||[44]|
|2015||Perfect Proposal||Sung-yeol||[45]|
|The Beauty Inside||Woo-jin||[46]|
|2016||Love, Lies||Kim Yoon-woo||[47]|
|Mood of the Day||Jae-hyun||[48]|
|A Quiet Dream||Motorcycle man||Cameo[49]|
|2020||Steel Rain 2: Summit||Jo Seon-sa (North Korean Leader)||[50]|
|2021||New Year Blues||Jae-Hyun||[51]|
|Puppy||Min-soo||[52]|
|Matin Calme||Park Jin-ho||France Film [53]|
Television series[edit]
Variety show[edit]
Music video[edit]
|Year||Title||Artist||Ref.|
|2008||"Things to Do Tomorrow"||Yoon Jong-shin||[77]|
|2009||"On the Days I Longed for Love"||Lee Oh Gong Gam|
|2013||"You Fool"||Honey-G||[78]|
|"Things to Do Tomorrow"||Yoon Jong-shin feat. Sung Si-kyung||[79]|
|"The Day to Love"||Lee Seung-chul|
|"One Way Love"||Hyolyn||[80]|
|"Only Feeling You"||Yoo Yeon-seok, Son Ho-jun and Jung Woo|
|2014||"Three People"||Toy feat. Sung Si-kyung||[81]|
|2015||"Because You're Pretty"||Standing Egg||[82]|
|2018||"Then You"||K.Will||[83]|
|2020||"Daystar "||Kyuhyun||[84]|
Theater[edit]
|Year||Title||Role|
|2008||The Good Person of Szechwan|
|2009||The Understudy|
|2015–2016||Le Passe-Muraille||Dusoleil|
|2017||Hedwig and the Angry Inch[85]||Hedwig|
|2019||A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder||Monty Navarro|
|2020||Werther (20th anniversary)||Werther|
Book[edit]
|Year||Title||Publisher||ISBN|
|2014||Yoo Yeon-seok's Dream||Paperbook||ISBN 9788997148387|
Awards and nominations[edit]
|Year||Award||Category||Nominated work||Result||Ref.|
|2011||48th Grand Bell Awards||Best New Actor||Re-encounter||Nominated|
|2012||33rd Blue Dragon Film Awards||Best New Actor||Horror Stories||Nominated|
|2014||7th Style Icon Awards||Top 10 Style Icons||N/A||Won||[86]|
|2015||51st Baeksang Arts Awards||Best Supporting Actor (Film)||The Royal Tailor||Nominated|
|52nd Grand Bell Awards||Best Supporting Actor||Nominated|
|35th Golden Cinema Festival||Best New Actor||Won||[87]|
|MBC Drama Awards||Top 10 Stars Award||Warm and Cozy||Won||[88]|
|2016||Korea Film Actors Association Awards||Popularity Award||Mood of the Day||Won||[89]|
|SBS Drama Awards||Excellence Award, Actor in a Genre Drama||Dr. Romantic||Won||[90]|
|Best Couple (with Seo Hyun-jin)||Won||[91]|
|Idol Academy Award - Best Kiss (with Seo Hyun-jin)||Won|
|2018||2nd Korea Musical Awards||Best New Actor||Hedwig and the Angry Inch||Nominated|
|6th APAN Star Awards||Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries||Mr. Sunshine||Nominated||[92]|
|2nd The Seoul Awards||Best Supporting Actor (Drama)||Won||[93]|
|3rd Asia Artist Awards||Artist of the Year||Won||[94]|
|Best Actor||Won|
|Popular Star Award, Actor||Nominated|
|2019||55th Baeksang Arts Awards||Best Supporting Actor (TV)||Nominated||[95]|
|V LIVE Popularity Award||Nominated|
|14th Soompi Awards||Best Supporting Actor Male Category||Nominated||[96]|
|2020||5th Asia Artist Awards 2020||Popularity Award (Actor)||N/A||Nominated||[97]|
|2021||41st Blue Dragon Film Awards[98][99]||Best Supporting Actor||Steel Rain 2: Summit||Nominated||[100]|
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- ^ "BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR". soompi (in Korean). 6 November 2020.
- ^ "2020 Asia Artist Award Actor Shortlist". Twitter.
- ^ Delayed Until 2021 Due To COVID-19
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External links[edit]
- Yoo Yeon-seok at HanCinema
- Yoo Yeon-seok at the Korean Movie Database
- Yoo Yeon-seok at IMDb
- Yoo Yeon-seok on Instagram
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