Um Ki-joon
|Born|
|Education||Seoul Artspool Conservatory - Musical Acting|
|Occupation||Actor|
|Years active||1995-present|
|Agent||SidusHQ[1][2]|
|Korean name|
|Hangul|
|Revised Romanization||Eom Gi-jun|
|McCune–Reischauer||Ŏm Ki-chun|
|Website||www|
Um Ki-joon (April 22, 1976) is a South Korean actor.
Career[edit]
Um Ki-joon made his acting debut in 1995 in the stage play Richard III, though he later became best known as a musical theatre actor, starring in Singin' in the Rain,[3] The Sorrows of Young Werther,[4] Grease, The Three Musketeers,[5] Jack the Ripper,[6] The Count of Monte Cristo,[7][8] Catch Me If You Can,[9][10][11] and Rebecca. He also appeared in the Patrick Marber play Closer.[12][13]
Um's popularity increased after he began playing supporting roles in television dramas such as Life Special Investigation Team, Worlds Within, Hero,[14] Dream High,[15] Scent of a Woman and Phantom.[16][17] He was also the leading actor in Good Job, Good Job and The Virus.[18]
Um played the villain in his first film Man of Vendetta, opposite Kim Myung-min.[19] This was followed by a role as Lee Ki-cheol, a detective investigating serial murders in horror film Killer Toon, opposite Lee Si-young.[20]
In 2017, Um played the villain in the hit legal thriller Innocent Defendant.[21]
In 2018, he reunited with the director and writer of Innocent Defendant in medical drama Heart Surgeons.[22]
In 2020, he appeared in TV series The Penthouse: War in Life as real estate genius. The series aired on SBS TV from October 26.[23]
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
|Year||Title||Role|
|2010||Man of Vendetta||Choi Byeong-chul|
|Villain and Widow||Representative Ha (cameo)|
|Finding Mr. Destiny||Kim Jong-wook (cameo)|
|2013||Killer Toon||Lee Ki-cheol|
Television series[edit]
|Year||Title||Role||Network|
|2006||Drama City "Who Loved Her?"||Park Cheol-ho||KBS2|
|2007||Drama City "Grim Reaper with Amnesia"||Dong-wook|
|Kimchi Cheese Smile||Um Ki-joon||MBC|
|2008||Drama City "Secret, Only You Don't Know"||Park Hyeong-joo||KBS2|
|Life Special Investigation Team||Park Chan-ho||MBC|
|Worlds Within||Song Gyu-ho||KBS2|
|2009||Good Job, Good Job||Choi Seung-hyun||MBC|
|Hero||Kang Hye-sung|
|2011||Dream High||Kang Oh-hyuk||KBS2|
|Miss Ripley||Prosecutor||MBC|
|Scent of a Woman||Chae Eun-suk||SBS|
|Can't Lose||Cha Seok-hoon||MBC|
|2012||Phantom||Jo Hyun-min||SBS|
|2013||The Virus||Lee Myung-hyun||OCN|
|I Can Hear Your Voice||Public defender Um Ki-joon||SBS|
|2014||Golden Cross||Michael Jang||KBS2|
|2015||The Man in the Mask||Kang Hyun-woong|
|2016||Nightmare Teacher||Han Bong-gu||Naver TV Cast|
|2017||Missing 9||Investigator Oh||MBC|
|Innocent Defendant||Cha Sun-ho / Cha Min-ho||SBS|
|I'm Not a Robot||Hong Baek-kyun||MBC|
|2018||Heart Surgeons||Choi Suk-han||SBS|
|2020–21||The Penthouse: War in Life||Joo Dan-tae|
|2021||The Penthouse: War in Life 2|
(cameo, episode 14)
(guest, episodes 14-17)
(cameo, episode 14)
Music video[edit]
|Year||Song Title||Artist|
|2007||"Goodbye, 20 Years Old"||Toy|
|"Three People"||Lee Ki-chan|
|2015||"April Snow"||Huh Gak|
Theater[edit]
|Year||Title||Role|
|1995||Richard III|
|1996||Oliver!|
|1998||Gwanggaeto the Great|
|1999||Tripitaka Koreana|
|Jang Bogo, the Sea God|
|2000||Oh! Happy Day|
|2001||Singin' in the Rain||Don Lockwood|
|2002||The Sorrows of Young Werther||Werther|
|Songshan Nights||Kim Hyun|
|Carmen||Escamillo|
|2003||Grease||Danny Zuko|
|2003-2004||The Sorrows of Young Werther||Werther|
|2004||Men's Impulses||Yoo-jung|
|Singin' in the Rain||Don Lockwood|
|Anakji Love Story|
|2005||Assassins||John Wilkes Booth|
|Grease||Danny Zuko|
|2005-2006||Hedwig and the Angry Inch||Hedwig|
|2005||Love Diary|
|2006-2007||Singin' in the Rain||Dong-hyun|
|2006||The Sorrows of Young Werther||Werther|
|Le Passe-Muraille||Dusoleil|
|Finding Kim Jong-wook||Man/Kim Jong-wook|
|Grease||Danny Zuko|
|Passion of the Rain|
|2007||A Day||Han Min-ho|
|Hedwig Concert Together with John Cameron Mitchell[24]|
|2007-2008||Mad Kiss||Jang Jung|
|Separated Man and Woman||Kang Yeon-oh|
|2009||The Lower Depths||Satine|
|The Three Musketeers||D'Artagnan|
|2009-2010||Jack the Ripper||Daniel|
|2010||The Count of Monte Cristo||Edmond Dantès|
|Jack the Ripper||Daniel|
|Closer||Dan|
|2010-2011||The Three Musketeers||D'Artagnan|
|2011||The Count of Monte Cristo||Edmond Dantès|
|Jack the Ripper||Daniel|
|The Three Musketeers||D'Artagnan|
|2012||Catch Me If You Can||Frank Abagnale Jr.|
|Jack the Ripper||Daniel|
|2012-2013||Catch Me If You Can||Frank Abagnale Jr.|
|2013||The Three Musketeers||D'Artagnan|
|The Count of Monte Cristo||Edmond Dantès|
|Jack the Ripper||Daniel|
|Bonnie & Clyde||Clyde Barrow|
|2013-2014||The Sorrows of Young Werther||Werther|
|The Three Musketeers||D'Artagnan|
|2014||Bonnie & Clyde||Clyde Barrow|
|2014-2015||Rebecca||Maxim de Winter|
|2015||Robin Hood[25]||Robin Hood|
|Cinderella[26]||Prince Christopher|
|2015-2016||Werther||Werther|
|2016||Rebecca||Maxim de Winter|
|Mata Hari||Armand|
|Jack the Ripper||Daniel|
|2016-2017||The Count of Monte Cristo||Edmond Dantès|
|2017||Mata Hari[27]||Armand|
|Rebecca||Maxim de Winter|
|2018||The Three Musketeers||D'Artagnan|
|2018-2019||The Days||Cha Jung-hak|
|2019||Jack the Ripper||Daniel|
|Artus-Excalibur||Lancelot|
|Dracula||Dracula|
|2020||Werther||Werther|
|2020-2021||The Count of Monte Cristo||Edmond Dantès|
Awards and nominations[edit]
|Year||Award||Category||Nominated work||Result||Ref.|
|2007||MBC Entertainment Awards||Excellence Award, Actor in a Sitcom/Comedy||Kimchi Cheese Smile||Won|
|2008||KBS Drama Awards||Best Supporting Actor||Worlds Within||Won|
|2009||45th Baeksang Arts Awards||Best New Actor (TV)||Nominated|
|2010||47th Grand Bell Awards||Best New Actor||Man of Vendetta||Nominated|
|8th Korean Film Awards||Nominated|
|2011||8th Max Movie Awards||Nominated|
|47th Baeksang Arts Awards||Best New Actor (Film)||Nominated|
|15th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival||It Star Award||N/A||Won||[28]|
|4th Korea Drama Awards||Best Supporting Actor||Dream High, Scent of a Woman||Nominated|
|SBS Drama Awards||Excellence Award, Actor in a Weekend Drama||Scent of a Woman||Won||[29]|
|2012||SBS Drama Awards||Excellence Award, Actor in a Drama Special||Phantom||Nominated|
|2017||MBC Drama Awards||Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries||I'm Not a Robot||Nominated|
|SBS Drama Awards||Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Monday–Tuesday Drama||Innocent Defendant||Nominated|
|Character of the Year||Won|
|2018||SBS Drama Awards||Excellence Award, Actor in a Wednesday-Thursday Drama||Heart Surgeons||Nominated||[30]|
|Producer Award||Won|
|2020||SBS Drama Awards||Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Mid-Length Drama||The Penthouse: War in Life||Won||[31]|
References[edit]
- ^ "[공식입장]엄기준, 싸이더스HQ와 재계약 체결…'12년 인연' 이어간다". The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). October 8, 2018.
- ^ "엄기준, 싸이더스HQ와 재계약...12년 인연 계속". JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). October 8, 2018.
- ^ Lee, Eun-joo (30 July 2008). "Talk of the town: Poor ticket sales take wind out of festival's sails". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
- ^ Sohn, Ji-ae (6 December 2013). "Werther's heartbreaking story revived on Korean stage". Korea.net. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
- ^ Kwon, Mee-yoo (19 December 2010). "The Three Musketeers defends justice, friendship". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Park, Min-young (11 July 2011). "Musical fans get star-studded bonanza". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2013-01-15.
- ^ Chung, Ah-young (10 February 2010). "Star-Studded Cast Shine in Monte Cristo". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Jang, Kyung-jin (22 April 2010). "PREVIEW: Musical Monte Cristo". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Sunwoo, Carla (2 February 2012). "Three join Catch Me if You Can". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2013-01-15.
- ^ Kwaak, Je-yup (27 March 2012). "Hallyu star Kim leads in new musical". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Hong, Lucia (30 January 2012). "SM Entertainment artists cast in musical Catch Me If You Can". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Chung, Ah-young (13 July 2010). "Um, Moon to perform in Closer". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Jang, Kyung-jin (21 July 2010). "Moon Geun-young says "trying to be less friendly"". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Yoon, Hee-seong (28 October 2009). "PREVIEW: MBC TV series Hero". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Kwon, Mee-yoo (28 December 2010). "Yonsama-JYP soap to reignite hallyu". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Park, So-jung (1 June 2011). "Kim Suna, Lee Dong-wook and Um Ki-joon cast in new drama". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
- ^ "Uhm Ki-joon in "Ghost - Drama"". Hancinema. 21 March 2012.
- ^ "Uhm Ki-joon stars in "The Virus"". Hancinema. 14 January 2013.
- ^ Jang, Kyung-jin (25 June 2010). "INTERVIEW: Um Ki-joon Man of Vendetta". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ "Webtoon spooks movie audiences". The Korea Herald. 19 June 2013.
- ^ "'Defendant' shows there's more to K-dramas than time-slip fantasies". Yonhap News Agency. 22 March 2017.
- ^ "Uhm Ki-joon Joins "Cardiothoracic Surgery" as Complex Villain". Hancinema. 29 June 2018.
- ^ "Uhm Ki Joon Takes Lead Role in "Penthouse"". April 3, 2020.
- ^ "Hedwig". The Dong-a Ilbo. 24 May 2007. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
- ^ Yim, Seung-hye (10 February 2015). "Robin Hood the musical strikes familiar chord". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
- ^ "[Herald Review] 'Cinderella' musical enchanting, comical". The Korea Herald. 29 September 2015.
- ^ "[Herald Review] Music, lust, betrayal swirls around female spy in 'Mata Hari'". The Korea Herald. 29 June 2017.
- ^ Hong, Lucia (13 July 2011). "Park Hae-il, Soo-ae, Choi Daniel, Sin Se-gyeong to win awards at PiFan". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Kim, Jessica (2 January 2012). "Han Suk-kyu reclaims glory at SBS Drama Awards". 10Asia. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
- ^ Lee, Jihyun (January 1, 2019). [SBS 연기대상] 감우성·김선아, 공동 대상..베스트 커플상까지(종합) [[SBS Drama Awards] Gam Woo-sung, Kim Sun-ah, co- grand prize.. Best Couple Award (Comprehensive)]. News1 (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 31, 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Jong-eun (January 1, 2021). "'남궁민 대상→'펜트하우스' 9관왕, SBS 빛낸 두 작품 [종합]". TV Daily (in Korean).
External links[edit]
- South Korean male musical theatre actors
- South Korean male stage actors
- South Korean male television actors
- South Korean male film actors
- 1976 births
- Living people
- 21st-century South Korean male actors
- IHQ (company) artists