Moon Jeong-hee (born January 12, 1976) is a South Korean stage, film, and television 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).

Career

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 of Korea as the only national university of arts with an a ...

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

Blue Dragon Film Awards The Blue Dragon Film Awards () is an annual awards ceremony that is presented by '' Sports Chosun'' (a sister brand of the ''Chosun Ilbo'') for excellence in film in South Korea. The Blue Dragon Film Awards considers only blockbusters and popul ...

. Moon has also drawn positive reviews for her performances in ''

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'' (2013), ''

'' (2014), and '' Mama'' (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

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and the

pansori ''Pansori'' () is a Korean genre of musical storytelling performed by a singing, singer and a Pansori gosu, drummer. The term ''pansori'' is derived from the Korean words ''pan'' (Hangul: 판) and ''sori'' (Hangul: 소리), the latter of which ...

. 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

Jeonju International Film Festival Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF, Korean: 전주국제영화제, Hanja: 全州國際映畵祭) is an Asian film festival. It was launched in 2000 as a non-competitive film festival with partial competition. It introduces independent ...

. In 2021, she was selected as jury member for Bucheon Choice Features section of

25th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival The 25th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (), an international film festival held in Bucheon, South Korea, took place from 8 to 18 July 2021, it featured 257 films from 47 countries. The film festival due to the impact of the COVID ...

held in July.

Filmography

Film

Television drama

Web series

Variety show

Theater

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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