Yoo Teo

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 유태 오
Hanja 刘 台 午
Revised
Romanization 		Yu Tae-o
McCune-
Reischauer 		Yu T'aeo

Yoo Teo (born April 11, 1981 in Cologne , Germany ) is a South Korean actor .

Life

Yoo Teo, also known under the western name sequence Teo Yoo, was born on April 11, 1981 as the son of South Korean guest workers in Cologne . He was a passionate basketball player in his youth, but gave up after an injury and focused on acting. To do this, he went to the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York . Yoo is fluent in English, German and Korean. He played in productions in different countries. Early in his career he had several supporting roles in South Korean films, including One on One (2014) directed by Kim Ki-duk .

In 2015 he played one of the leading roles in the American production Seoul Searching by Korean-American director Benson Lee. The film is about young Koreans who grew up abroad and want to learn about their Korean heritage. Yoo plays the Hamburger Klaus Kim in it . He also starred in the science fiction film Equals , the Vietnamese film Bitcoin Heist (2016) and the Thai film Ruk Kong Rao (2017).

In 2018 he played the lead role of the Soviet rock musician Viktor Zoi , son of a Korean and a Russian, in Kirill Serebrennikov's Leto , which led him to the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival . Yoo doesn't speak Russian and has learned the Russian texts by heart for the role.

Yoo said he sees himself as a Korean and has always wanted to appear in South Korean films, but his Korean has not been fluent for a long time. 2019 he plays the lead role in the film Vertigo on the side of Chun Woo-hee .

Filmography

Movies

  • 2006: Two Days Two Nights (Day Night Day Night)
  • 2009: The Actresses ( 여배우 들 )
  • 2012: Love Fiction ( 러브 픽션 )
  • 2012: Codename: Jackal ( 자칼 이 온다 )
  • 2014: One on One ( 일대일 )
  • 2015: You Call It Passion ( 열정 같은 소리 하고 있네 )
  • 2015: Seoul Searching
  • 2015: Equals - the future belongs to you
  • 2016: Bitcoin Heist
  • 2017: Ruk Kong Rao
  • 2018: Leto
  • 2019: Vertigo ( 버티고 )
  • 2019: Collateral ( 담보 Dambo )

TV Shows

  • 2019: Arthdal ​​Chronicles ( 아스 달 연대기 Arthdal ​​Yeondaegi )
  • 2019: Vagabond ( 배가 본드 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kim Sun-joo: Teo Yoo, the debutant in Cannes with the film "Leto": "Melancholy is a commonality between me and Wiktor Choi". June 15, 2018, accessed September 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ James S. Kim: Korean German Actor Teo Yoo Finds His Identity Through 'Seoul Searching'. In: Character Media. March 21, 2015, accessed September 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ Song Hye-jin: Korean-German Actor Teo Yoo Gets Big Break in Cannes Hit. In: Chosun Ilbo . May 15, 2018, accessed on September 29, 2019 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Yoo is the family name here, Teo is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Yoo, Teo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 유태 오 (Hangeul); 刘 台 午 (Hanja); Yu, Tae-o (revised Romanization); Yu, T'aeo (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne , Germany