Jeon Do-yeon

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Jeon Do-yeon at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival
Jeon Do-yeon at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival

Korean spelling
Hangeul 전도연
Hanja 全 度 妍
Revised
Romanization
Jeon Do-yeon
McCune-
Reischauer
Chon Toyon

Jeon Do-yeon (born February 11, 1973 in Seoul ) is a South Korean actress who was named Best Actress in Cannes in 2007 for her role in Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine .

Career

Jeon won all the major South Korean awards for her first film, The Contact .

In 2005, Jeon played a young woman in the film You Are My Sunshine who moves from Seoul to a small town and works in a dabang there , delivering coffee to customers. These visits include sexual services. A farmer from the small town falls in love with her the first time he looks at her and has her deliveries frequently, is always polite and gives her many presents. They later get married. But then she gets the news that she suffers from AIDS .

She was named Best Actress at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for her role as Shin-ae in Secret Sunshine , a young widowed piano teacher who is confronted with the death of her son .

In 2007 she married businessman Kang Si-gyu. In 2009 she gave birth to a daughter.

Jeon was honored for her life's work at the Udine Far East Film Festival 2019. The film Birthday (2019) with her in the lead role was selected as the festival's opening film.

Filmography

  • 1997: The Contact ( 접속 Jeopsok )
  • 1998: A Promise ( 약속 Yaksok )
  • 1998: The Harmonium In My Memory ( 내 마음 의 풍금 Nae Maeum-ui Punggeum )
  • 1999: happy ending ( 해피 엔드 )
  • 2000: I Wish I Had a Wife ( 나도 아내 가 있었으면 좋겠다 Nado Anaega Issesseumyeon Joketda )
  • 2001: No Blood No Tears ( 피 도 눈물 도 없이 Pido Nunmuldo Eopsi )
  • 2003: Untold Scandal ( 스캔들: 조선 남녀 상열 지사 Seukaendeul: Joseon Nam Nyeo Sangyeoljisa )
  • 2004: My Mother, the Mermaid ( 인어 공주 Ineo Gongju )
  • 2005: You Are My Sunshine ( 너는 내 운명 Neoneun Nae Unmyeong )
  • 2007: Secret Sunshine ( 밀양 )
  • 2008: My Dear Enemy ( 멋진 하루 Meotjin Haru )
  • 2010: The housemaid ( 하녀 Hanyeo )
  • 2011: Countdown ( 카운트 다운 )
  • 2013: Way Back Home ( 집 으로 가는 길 Jib-euro Ganeun Gil )
  • 2015: The Shameless ( 무뢰한 Muroehan )
  • 2015: Memories of the Sword ( 협녀: 칼 의 기억 Hyeomnyeo: Kal-ui Gieok )
  • 2016: A Man and a Woman ( 남과 여 Nam-gwa Yeo )
  • 2019: Birthday ( 생일 Saengil )
  • 2020: Beasts Clawing at Straws ( 지푸라기 라도 잡고 싶은 짐승 들 )

Web links

Commons : Jeon Do-yeon  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actress Jeon Marries. In: HanCinema. Korea Times , March 11, 2007, accessed April 5, 2014 .
  2. Actress Jeon Do-yeon receives Lifetime Achievement Award at the Italian film festival. In: KBS World . April 19, 2019. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .