Moon Jeong-hee (born January 12, 1976) is a South Korean actress. She has won

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for her performance in '' Deranged'' (2012) and Best Supporting Actress award in

Buil Film Awards The Buil Film Awards () is a South Korean film awards ceremony hosted by the '' Busan Ilbo'' newspaper. It began in 1958 as one of the earliest film awards in the country. During the 1950s and 1960s, it was the biggest film awards event in the ...

for her performance in ''

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'' (2014).

Early life and education

Moon Jeong-hee graduated from the

Korea National University of Arts Korea National University of Arts () is a national university in Seoul, South Korea. Korea National University of Arts was established in 1993 by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as the only national university of arts with an aim to ...

with a degree in Theatre Studies. She made her theater debut in a 1998 staging of '' Blood Brothers''.

Career

Though she hasn't found full-fledged stardom, the actress has built a solid body of work alternating leading and supporting roles. 2012 hit '' Deranged'' was her first starring role in a commercial film, for which she won Best Supporting Actress at the 33rd Blue Dragon Film Awards. Moon has also drawn positive reviews for her performances in ''

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'' (2013), ''

'' (2014), and ''

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'' (2014).

Other activities

Having learned salsa in middle school, Moon became an accomplished salsa dancer. She has worked as a salsa dancing teacher in between projects, and can also do jazz dancing and the

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. Moon is fluent in three languages - Korean, English and French. She was named the goodwill ambassador of international children's rights group Safe Kids Korea in 2010. In 2012 she hosted the closing ceremony of the

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. In 2021, she was selected as jury member for Bucheon Choice Features section of 25th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival held in July.

Filmography

Film

Television drama

Web series

Variety show

Theater

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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