Lee Jung-jae

Lee Jungjae 이정재 is a South Korean actor Born on March 15 1973 he began modeling in 1993 before getting his first acting roles the film The Young Man 1994 and the TV series Feelings 1994 and Sandglass 1995 which is one of the highest rated Korean dramas of all time with a peak rating of 645 But his real breakthrough was with leading roles in awardwinning films The Affair 1998 and City of the Rising Sun 1999 The latter of which earned him the Best Actor award at the prestigious Blue Dragon film awards This was followed by a series of critical hits like Il Mare 2000 and commercial successes including Last Present 2001 The Last Witness 2001 Oh Brothers 2003 and the blockbuster Typhoon 2005 After a brief career slump of flop movies and tv shows he returned with the critical and commercial hit The Housemaid 2010 which is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name Since then he went on to cement himself as one of Koreas biggest movie stars with a string of some of the biggest blockbusters in Korean history including The Thieves 2012 New World 2013 The Face Reader 2013 Assassination 2015 Operation Chromite 2016 and the Along with the Gods films 20172018 Most of these films did north of 12 million admissions at the domestic boxoffice with The Thieves 2012 and Along with the Gods 2017 becoming the 2 biggest Korean hit in history at their respective time of release He received a number of awards and nominations for these works including a Popularity Award at the prestigious Grand Bell awards His most recent blockbuster is Deliver Us From Evil 2020 in which he reunited with his New World 2013 costar Hwang Jungmin It crossed 4 million admissions domestically and was the second biggest hit of the year in Korea