Shin Hye-sun
|Born|
|Other names||Shin Hye-sun|
|Education||Sejong University - Film Art|
|Occupation||Actress|
|Years active||2012–present|
|Agent||YNK Entertainment|
|Height||1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)|
|Korean name|
|Hangul|
|Hanja|
|Revised Romanization||Sin Hyeseon|
|McCune–Reischauer||Sin Hyesŏn|
Shin Hye-sun (born 31 August 1989) is a South Korean actress. She made her debut in the television series School 2013. In 2017, Shin Hye-sun played her first leading role and became well-known in the weekend drama, My Golden Life, which garnered more than 8 million viewers.[1] She is also best known for her other leading roles in Korean dramas such as Still 17, The Hymn of Death, Angel's Last Mission: Love and the TVN hit drama Mr. Queen.
Career[edit]
2012–2016: Career beginnings and minor roles[edit]
Shin Hye-sun debuted as an actress through the TV drama School 2013, an installment of the long-running School series, after successfully passing the audition to cast in a schoolgirl role. She played a minor character with the same name as hers.[2]
Shin began to land bigger roles in 2015 with Oh My Ghost and She Was Pretty.[3][4] Though both titles were romantic comedies, her characters varied significantly.[5]
2016–2017: Breakthrough[edit]
Her breakthrough came in 2016 with Five Enough.[6] Her role as a gullible, naively-romantic woman and her pairing with actor Sung Hoon gained popularity among the viewers.[7] The same year, she starred in the fantasy-romance drama The Legend of the Blue Sea.[8]
In 2017, she played her first lead role in a film in A Day.[9] Shin then played a key figure in an acclaimed crime thriller series Stranger.[10][11] Soon after, she was cast in her first lead role in a television drama with KBS2's drama My Golden Life.[12] The drama was a major hit in South Korea and surpassed 40% ratings,[13] leading to an increased recognition for Shin.[14][15] She received a lot of love offers by the advertising industry and producers of movies and dramas.[16]
2018–2019: Artistic Characters[edit]
In 2018, Shin was cast as a lead in the SBS drama special The Hymn of Death alongside Lee Jong-suk. She played the role of Yun Sim-deok, Korea's first professional soprano singer.[17]
The same year, she starred alongside Yang Se-jong in the SBS romance comedy drama Still 17, as an aspiring violinist whose life turned upside down due to an accident.[18]
In 2019, Shin starred in the KBS2 fantasy romance drama Angel's Last Mission: Love alongside Kim Myung-soo, as a ballerina who has no interest in love.[19]
2020–present: Film debut and Rising popularity[edit]
In 2020, she was cast to play her first lead role in the legal film Innocence, as a lawyer who decides to defend her mother (Bae Jong-ok) from prosecution.[20] She received positive reviews for her performance in the film and was nominated in the Best New Actress category at the 41st Blue Dragon Film Awards.
In November, she appeared in the caper story film Collectors with Lee Je-hoon, as an art curator Yoon[21] and later in the TVN hit drama Mr. Queen in a dual lead role as both Kim So-yong (Queen Cheorin) as well as Jang Bong-Hwan, a male chef from 2020 whose soul travels back in time and gets trapped in Kim So-yong's body.
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
|Year||Title||Role||Notes|
|2014||One Summer Night||So-ra||Short film|
|Return Match||Joo-yeon||Short film|
|2016||A Violent Prosecutor||Yoon-ah|
|2017||A Day||Mi-kyung|
|2020||Innocence||Ahn Jung-in|
|Collectors||Curator Yoon|
|TBA||She Died||[22]|
Television series[edit]
|Year||Title||Role||Network||Notes|
|2012–13||School 2013||Shin Hye-sun||KBS2|
|2014||Angel Eyes||young Cha Min-soo||SBS|
|High School King of Savvy||Go Yoon-joo||tvN||[23]|
|2014–15||Forever Young||Han Mi-so||VTV3||Korean-Vietnamese production[24]|
|2015||Oh My Ghost||Kang Eun-hee||tvN|
|She Was Pretty||Han Seol||MBC|
|2016||Five Enough||Lee Yeon-tae||KBS2|
|Legend of the Blue Sea||Cha Si-ah||SBS|
|2017–20||Stranger||Young Eun-soo||tvN||Main (season 1); Guest (season 2)|
|2017–18||My Golden Life||Seo Ji-an||KBS2|
|2018||Still 17||Woo Seo-ri||SBS|
|The Hymn of Death||Yun Sim-deok|
|2019||Angel's Last Mission: Love||Lee Yeon-seo||KBS2|
|2020–21||Mr. Queen||Kim So-yong Queen Cheorin/Jang Bong Hwan||tvN|
Music video appearance[edit]
|Year||Title||Artist||Notes|
|2013||"Curious"||What Women Want ft. Jung-yup from Brown Eyed Soul||[25][26]|
|2018||"Feel Like"||Naul||[27]|
|2018||"Snowfall"||g.o.d||[28]|
Variety show[edit]
|Year||Title||Network||Notes||Ref.|
|2016||Happy Together||KBS||Guest with So Yoo-jin, Wang Bit-na, Im Soo-hyang, Kwon Oh-joong (episode 435)|
|KBS||Guest with Sung Hoon, Song Jae-hee & Seo Yoo-jung [ko], Tony An (H.O.T.) & Kim Jae-duc (Sechs Kies) (episode 455)|
|Entertainment Weekly||KBS||Guest with Sung Hoon|
|2018||Hope for Children in Global Village||MBC||Visitor and narrator (MBC x Good Neighbors USA: Cameroon in episode 14)||[29]|
|2018 SBS Drama Awards||SBS||Host With Shin Dong-yup and Lee Je-hoon||[30]|
|My Little Old Boy||SBS||Guest (in episode 99 & 100)|
|Running Man||SBS||Special appearance (episode 412)|
|2019||1919–2019, Memories||MBC||Narrator (in episode 2 of Kim Hyang-hwa)||[31]|
|2019 KBS Drama Awards||KBS2||Host with Jeon Hyun-moo||[32]|
|2020||Running Man||SBS||Guest with Bae Jong-ok (episode 491 - 492)|
|Knowing Bros||JTBC||Guest with Bae Jong-ok (episode 218)|
Awards and nominations[edit]
|Year||Award||Category||Nominated work||Result||Ref.|
|2015||MBC Drama Awards||Best New Actress in a Miniseries||She Was Pretty||Nominated|
|2016||2nd Scene Stealer Festival||Rookie of the Year||Five Enough, A Violent Prosecutor||Won||[33]|
|KBS Drama Awards||Best Supporting Actress||Five Enough||Nominated|
|Best New Actress||Nominated|
|SBS Drama Awards||Excellence Award, Actress in a Fantasy Drama||The Legend of the Blue Sea||Nominated|
|2017||1st The Seoul Awards||Best New Actress||Stranger||Nominated|
|KBS Drama Awards||Top Excellence Award, Actress||My Golden Life||Nominated||[34]|
|Excellence Award, Actress in a Serial Drama||Won|
|Best Couple Award with Park Si-hoo||Won|
|2018||54th Baeksang Arts Awards||Best Actress (TV)||Nominated||[35]|
|11th Korea Drama Awards||Top Excellence Award, Actress||Nominated||[36]|
|6th APAN Star Awards||Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Serial Drama||Won||[37]|
|SBS Drama Awards||Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Monday-Tuesday Drama||Still 17||Won||[38]|
|2nd The Seoul Awards||Best Actress||My Golden Life, Still 17||Nominated||[39]|
|2019||14th Seoul International Drama Awards||The Hymn of Death||Nominated||[40]|
|KBS Drama Awards||Top Excellence Award, Actress||Angel's Last Mission: Love||Won||[41]|
|Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries||Nominated|
|Best Couple Award with Kim Myung-soo||Won|
|2021||41st Blue Dragon Film Awards[42][43]||Best New Actress||Innocence||Nominated||[44]|
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External links[edit]
- Shin Hye-sun at YNK Entertainment
- Shin Hye-sun at IMDb
- Shin Hye-sun at HanCinema
- Shin Hye-sun at the Korean Movie Database
- Shin Hye-sun on Instagram
- Top Excellence in Acting, Actress for APAN Star Awards winners
- 1989 births
- Living people
- 21st-century South Korean actresses
- South Korean film actresses
- South Korean television actresses
- Actresses from Seoul
- Sejong University alumni