Audiences found Youn's fast way of speaking and atypical appearance refreshing and she frequently took roles in TV dramas depicting a modern woman of the new generation, notably in Stepmother (1972) written by Kim Soo-hyun.Īt the peak of her career, Youn retired after she married singer Jo Young-nam in 1974, then immigrated to the United States. Kim was considered Korea's first style-conscious, experimental director, and Youn did not balk in playing risque, provocative characters that explore the grotesque in the female psyche in collaborations with him such as The Insect Woman (1972) and Be a Wicked Woman (1990).
This was followed by the MBC historical drama Jang Hui-bin where she played the titular infamous royal concubine. Her first film, Kim Ki-young's Woman of Fire, became a critical and commercial hit, for which she won Best Actress at the Sitges Film Festival. Youn shot to stardom in 1971 with two memorable portrayals of femme fatales. She dropped out of college, and made her acting debut in the television drama Mister Gom in 1967.
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In 2022, she will star in a television series Pachinko on Apple TV+.
She is also known for her matriarch roles in the South Korean family drama series Men of the Bath House (1995), Be Strong Geum Soon (2005), Daughters-in-Law (2007), My Husband Got a Family (2012), and Dear My Friends (2016). Besides Woman of Fire and Minari, Youn is known for her work in the South Korean films The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), The Bacchus Lady (2016), and Canola (2016). She retired from the spotlight for several years before returning to acting in the late 1980s. īy the late 1960s, Youn was a rising star in South Korea and won several awards for her role in Woman of Fire (1971). Her critically acclaimed portrayal of Soon-ja in the film made her the first Korean actress to win a Screen Actors Guild Award, Indie Spirit Award, British Academy Film Award, and the Academy Award, as well as the first to be nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award, all in the Best Supporting Actress category. She gained international recognition for her role in Minari (2020). She has starred in many South Korean television series and films. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and a nomination for a Critics' Choice Movie Award. Youn Yuh-jung ( Korean: 윤여정, Korean pronunciation: born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress, whose career in film and television spans over five decades.
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