Lee Tae-ran

Acting

Lee Tae-ran

Born

1975-03-25 (51)

Place of birth

Yeonggwaang, South Jeolla, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

Granny's Got Talent poster
7.7

A national cussing battle audition is the nation's hype. People from all over the country audition in becoming the "Cussing King." However, redundant cussing auditioners cause viewership to drop dramatically. The producer decides to revive the show by introducing a regular looking grandmother...

Granny's Got Talent

2015

Helios poster
5.3

Wanted criminal "Helios" and his assistant stole a quantity of uranium and plan to produce weapons of mass destruction. They are planning to trade with a terrorist organization in Hong Kong. Chief Inspector Lee Yinming and Inspector Fan Kaming lead the Counter Terrorism Response Unit of the Hong Kong Police Force. Along with a Chinese senior official, a physics professor, and two South Korean weapon experts, they hope to defuse a crisis sufficient to destroy the world.

Helios

2015

Twenty Again poster
5.0

A female eye doctor and a male film director run into each other on the airplane to Milan. The two were lovers in the past, and are now in their middle ages. After their chance encounter in Torino, they travel around Tuscany together, appreciating the works of Caravaggio. They begin to notice they are hiding their own wounds from each other. In Korea, he goes to her eye clinic, and they confess love to each other for the first time. In the end, they go their separate ways.

Twenty Again

2016

My Boy poster
5.0

Impulse disorder patient Icheon fantasizes about playing with his brother Yucheon in the hospital. But to those who don’t know about his fantasies, Icheon is just a strange boy. His mother struggles with paying the hospital bills, and barely gets by, receiving help from her husband’s friend.

My Boy

2014

Series credits

Radio Star poster
5.5

“Radio Star” is a South Korean music talk show where the guests and hosts talk openly and intimately about their lives, their pasts and their work. It is part of Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation's "Golden Fishery" programming block.

Radio Star

2007

Soonpoong Clinic poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Soonpoong Clinic

1998

Let's Eat Dinner Together poster
7.0

As more and more people are getting used to eating dinner alone, Kang Ho-dong and Lee Kyung-kyu visit ordinary Korean families at dinner time and share their lives as they eat dinner together.

Let's Eat Dinner Together

2016

Problem Child in House poster
5.5

In a society that puts the spotlight on the smart guys only, there are people who do not have a grain of common sense. In this knowledge-talk show, these problematic people get locked up in a rooftop house and are allowed to go home only if they get 10 questions right.

Problem Child in House

2018

SKY Castle poster
8.0

For the families living at Sky Castle, an exclusive residential community that's home to Korea's elite, their children’s success means everything.

SKY Castle

2018

Yellow Handkerchief poster
10.0

Sang-min wants success in life, and in pursuit of success, he abandons his ten-year relationship with Ja-yeong to marry his boss’ daughter, Min-ju. Ja-yeong finds herself pregnant and raising a child alone. When Sang-min finds out, the battle over custody of child begins. This drama became a number one hit and captured more than 30% of viewers during its broadcast while unraveling the mysteries of waiting, forgiveness and above all - the value of love.

Yellow Handkerchief

2003

Famous Princesses poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Famous Princesses

2006

Our Golden Days poster
5.0

An interior designer has a one-sided crush on her former college senior – but his best friend is secretly in love with her.

Our Golden Days

2025

KBS Drama Awards poster
8.0

The KBS Drama Awards is an awards ceremony presented by the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) for outstanding achievements in Korean dramas aired on its network. It is held annually on 31 December. The highest honor of the ceremony is the "Grand Prize", awarded to the best actor or actress of the year.

KBS Drama Awards

1987

Goddess of Marriage poster
1.3

A story of love and conflict unfolds between married couples with different values and views on life.

Goddess of Marriage

2013

Wang’s Family poster
6.0

Wang Subak, the eldest daughter of the Wang family, had married into a wealthy family. But after her husband Ko Minjung goes bankrupt, she and her family have to move back into her parents' home. Second daughter Hobak is also having financial difficulties with her jobless husband Heo Sedal, while third daughter Gwangbak suddenly decides to quit her stable job as a teacher to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. Navigating the pressures of their circumstances will test every member of the family as they struggle to find happiness and love.

Wang’s Family

2013

My Precious Child poster
4.0

In-ho (Lee Tae-Ran) is a radio PD, a workaholic with a bright personality. She meets a man with the same first & middle name, In-ho Lee (Kim Sung-Su). In-ho Lee is a talented singer-song writer and Radio DJ, but is saddled with personal problems (he's divorced and his father committed suicide after a business failure). Although at first these two don't get along, as time passes they start to develop feelings for each other.

My Precious Child

2008

Make a Woman Cry poster
NR

One difference that separates humans from animals is that people have emotions. So describing the emotions of different characters in a TV drama is an important part of the storytelling process. What is it like for a person to love another person? What is it like for a person to forgive another? This TV drama is made with the premise of influencing people to become gentler and stronger human beings.

Make a Woman Cry

2015

Delightfully Deceitful poster
6.0

After a decade behind bars, a brilliant con artist teams up with an empathetic lawyer — and together, they dig into the case that changed her life.

Delightfully Deceitful

2023

Days of Delight poster
NR

When Jun-je (Kim Sang-kyung) and Hoon-je (Lee Hoon) move into the all-female Yoo-jeong (Lee Tae-ran) household, the two families find themselves constantly at odds. Things take a strange turn when Jun-je accidentally joins the underwear company Yoo-je works for...

Days of Delight

1999

Legend of the Patriots poster
7.0

Legend of the Patriots is a remake of the 1975 South Korean drama Comrades. Its production was spawned to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Korean War. The story centers around the lives of eleven Korean soldiers fighting in the Korean War. Director Kim Sang-hwi remarked that the series is not about the ideologies of South and North Korea, but rather focuses on the struggles of ordinary people who lived through the war.

Legend of the Patriots

2010

How Long I've Kissed poster
4.1

A housewife is in a state of ambivalence about her children's education and the craze towards private education. The housewife then falls in love with a neighbor who works as a dentist.

How Long I've Kissed

2012

My Rosy Life poster
7.5

Maeng Soon-yi has sacrificed everything in her life for the sake of others. She missed out on her youth because she was too busy taking care of her father, who started drinking heavily after her mother abandoned them when Soon-yi was 10 years old. Soon-yi gave up on her own education so that she could earn the money to pay for her younger siblings' tuition. Soon-yi's younger sister Young-yi, is now a successful career woman. She is having an affair with a married man, Lee Jung-do. Jung-do was Young-yi's first love, but he broke up with her for the sake of his career. While younger brother Chul-soo has settled down in the United States where he's earning his doctorate degree, completely ignoring his responsibilities at home. Soon-yi perseveres despite the constant hardships that life throws at her. Until one day, she is jolted when Ban Sung-moon , her husband with whom she has two daughters, tells her that he has fallen in love with another woman and demands a divorce. Worse, she is diagnosed with stomach cancer shortly after. Abandoned by everyone around her, all those who she has worked so hard to make happy her entire life, Soon-yi decides that it's never too late to start living the life you want, and begins to be a little selfish and find some true happiness. When they find out about her disease, her family finally realizes what she means to them. And her husband Sung-moon also rethinks his actions and finally shows her the genuine meaning of marital love.

My Rosy Life

2005

The Modern Family poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Modern Family

2002

往日情怀 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

往日情怀

2014

The Lure of Cloud poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Lure of Cloud

2013

No artwork available
NR

This is the story of Hong Guk Young; his dreams, ambitions, ideals, and desires. His intelligence and resourcefulness served him well in his struggle to overcome adversity in the palace, eventually earning him the coveted position of right-hand man to King Jeongjo.

Hong Guk Young

2001

Steal My Heart poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Steal My Heart

1998

The Woman Who Wants to Marry poster
NR

These days, there seem to be just too many single working women in their 30s. These women have spent all their years accomplishing their dream and now stand all alone. They turn to men now, hoping to settle down, but all the fine guys have been snatched away by young girls who were only concerned about getting married. Now they try to fall into self-hypnotism that they are better off than being trapped in an unhappy marriage, but they can't help feeling all alone and lonely. "Marry Me" is a story of how women in their thirties come to face life and discover something new about their lives. 30-year-old spinster reporter Sin Young was once called a "troublemaker reporter", but she clenched her teeth and kept digging into her work. Soon Ae, a 30-year-old stewardess, is the breadwinner of her family who supports her ailing father, an utterly hopeless widow aunt and another hopeless cousin. Seung Ri is renowned for her numerous love affairs.

The Woman Who Wants to Marry

2004

노란손수건 poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

노란손수건

2003

The Driver poster
5.0

Related to road traffic signs as a work that tells the story of a person who becomes a surrogate driver after being laid off at work.

The Driver

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

어쩌면 좋아

2001

No artwork available
NR

Can the structure of your home be a cause of your family trouble? Korea’s top interior designers are gathered to reconstruct your home to make it not only beautiful but specially customized to serve unique needs of your family.

Let Me Beautify Your Home

2016

凤凰牡丹 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

凤凰牡丹

2013

帝錦 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

帝錦

2012