Kim Ju-ryong is a South Korean actress. She rose to international fame after playing the character ‘Han Mi-nyeo’ in the Netflix original web series ‘Squid Game’.
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Wiki/Biography
Kim Ju-ryong was born on Thursday, July 15, 1976 (age 45 years; as of 2021) in Gapyeong-gu, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. His zodiac sign is Cancer. He graduated in Theater and Film from Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea.
Physical Appearance
Height: 5′ 6″ (167 cm)
Weight: 49 kg
Eye colour: black
Hair Color: Black
Family
In 2010, she married a man two years younger than her. Her husband is a professor who teaches direction at Texas State University, San Marcos. She met her husband when she was acting in a theater play which was directed by her husband. They have a daughter named Katherine.
Kim Ju-ryong with his daughter
livelihood
Agency: Just Entertainment (Joined September 2019)
Theater
He started his acting career from the theater stage. He also starred in Amheung-aeosa Joldoya (2001), Waiting for Specters (2005), Detective Hong Eun-sik (2007), Checkmate (2009), Wanul-ui Jeonliang-eun? Has acted in plays like. (2010), and Scent of Love (2012). He is a part of ‘Dream Play’, a theater troupe.
movies
In 2000, he made his film debut as ‘Werther’ from ‘Plum Blossom’.
Kim Ju-ryong in Plum Blossom (2000)
He played only minor or supporting roles in the South Korean feature films Soram (2001), Memories of Murder (2003), You Are My Sunshine (2005), No Mercy for the Rude (2006), and Paradise Murdered (2007). In 2007, she was cast in her first lead role as ‘Jae-hee’ in the South Korean feature film ‘Texture of Skin’. The film tells the story of a journalist named Min-woo, who engages in a sexual relationship with his now-married ex-girlfriend, Jae-hee. However, he is haunted by the spirit of a woman who died in his arms in an accident and in whose apartment he was staying.
Kim Ju-ryong in a scene from Texture of Skin (2007)
He continued to play supporting roles in the South Korean films Handphone (2009), Silenced (2011), Sleepless Night (2013), Bluebeard (2017), Land of Happiness (2018), and Spring, Again (2019). In 2017, she made her short film debut with ‘Girl at the Door’ (South Korean) as ‘Hye-ri’s mother’. The short story is about a girl named Hye-ri who learns the armbar maneuver to gain the upper hand in a fight with her father, in contrast to her submissive mother and younger brother, who becomes abusive when drunk.
In 2020, she appeared as ‘Kim Jung-won’ in the TV movie ‘SF8: Zone Galaxy’. The film was broadcast on MBC.
SF8: Zone Galaxy (2020)
kdramas
In 2017, she made her television debut in the KBS2 drama ‘Ms.’ Excellent.’
Ms. Perfect (2017)
After that he only played small roles in the kdramas Criminal Minds (2017), Andante (2017), Miss Hammurabi (2018), The Rich Son (2018), The Ghost Detective (2018), Mr. Sunshine (2018), Kingmaker: The Change Of Destiny (2020), The School Nurse Files (2020). She also made cameo roles in the Kdramas Queen of Mystery 2 (2018), Sky Castle (2018), Babel (2019), Welcome to Waikiki 2 (2019), Voices 3 (2019), and Doctor John (2019). In 2019, she appeared as ‘Im Song-hee’ in the story ‘Woman with a Bleeding Ear’ of the one-act drama television series ‘Drama Stage’. The story is about a female office worker who is about to marry her boyfriend, whose ears start bleeding whenever he hears something he doesn’t want to hear.
The Woman with Bleeding Ears (2019)
In 2021, she appeared in the Netflix survival drama TV series ‘Squid Game’, which was streamed and distributed by Netflix. Written and directed by South Korean filmmaker Hwang Dong-hyuk, the series is based on a competition involving children’s games in which 456 players participate to win prize money of ₩45.6 billion; The losers face the death penalty. She played the lead role of ‘Han Mi-nyeo’ (No. 212), a quick-witted and manipulative woman who claims she is a fraud after being accused five times for fraud. went. Her reasons for entering the game are never explained in the series. Other lead roles in the series were played by Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Jang Ho-yeon, Wi Ha-joon, Oh Yeong-su, Anupam Tripathi and Heo Sung-tae. The series was a huge hit globally as it became Netflix’s most watched series at the time of its launch. The series is also the first South Korean drama to top Netflix’s top ten weekly most watched TV shows chart globally.
Kim Joo-ryong in a scene from Squid Game (2021)
award
- Best Actress Award at Incheon Theater Festival, 2005
- National Chunhyang Selection Competition in 1999
Favorite
- Illustrator: Constance Marie Charpentier
- Work of Art: Sadness by Constance Marie Charpentier
Facts/General Knowledge
- In his spare time, Joo-ryong likes to go to art exhibitions and watch movies.
- Apart from acting, she visits various hospitals to play with the patients. She once went to Bo Bath Memorial Hospital in Seongnam to perform a puppet show for children and patients with Down syndrome.
- When she is not acting she works as a part-time Dantian medical trainer and English textbook voice actor.
- She lives in Chungjeong-ro in Chungyeon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea.
- She was offered the role in Squid Game without any audition because director Hwang Dong-hyuk wanted her in his series as he had previously worked with him on his films Silenced (2011) and Collectors (2020). When the script was not even completed, Hwang Dong-hyuk offered her to star in his own series. In 2020, he received the script of Squid Game.
- Before Squid Game began, she wanted to quit acting due to lack of opportunities. However, when the script of the series reached her, she was impressed and decided to act in the series.
- She follows a non-vegetarian diet.
- She is considered to be a lookalike of famous South Korean comedian Kim Sook. He described the comedian as his lookalike.
Kim Joo-ryong with Kim Sook
- She is an avid dog lover and has a dog named Tuya.
Kim Ju-ryong talks about her pet in an Instagram post
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