Jeon Do-yeon

Acting

Jeon Do-yeon

Born

1973-02-11 (53)

Place of birth

Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

55 titles

Jeon Do-yeon (born February 11, 1973) is a highly-acclaimed South Korean actress who has won many awards including best actress at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. She is most famous for her extraordinary portrayal of a broken woman who has lost everything in Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 12 titles

Possible Love poster
8.0

A laid-off worker and his wife cross paths with a documentary filmmaker and her spouse and confront their hidden desires.

Possible Love

2026

Mantis poster
6.4

The secret society of contract killers falls into chaos, unleashing a new breed of assassins. With old rules in ruins, who dares claim the shadows?

Mantis

2025

Emergency Declaration poster
7.4

While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.

Emergency Declaration

2022

Kill Boksoon poster
6.9

At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.

Kill Boksoon

2023

Good News poster
7.0

When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatches a zany scheme to reroute the plane to Seoul.

Good News

2025

Beasts Clawing at Straws poster
7.1

A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.

Beasts Clawing at Straws

2020

Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony poster
7.5

A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, this documentary provides a thematic analysis of his films, most of which have been selected for and received awards at the Cannes Film Festival.

Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony

2023

Revolver poster
5.8

Su-young, a police detective who went to prison for someone else, is surprised when a mysterious woman named Yoon-sun arrives to collect her on her day of release. As she discovers that the promised compensation for her time behind bars has vanished, Su-young embarks on a mission to reclaim what rightfully belongs to her.

Revolver

2024

Hostage: Missing Celebrity poster
6.8

A box office star has to prove his action credentials in the real world when he's kidnapped and held for ransom.

Hostage: Missing Celebrity

2021

Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema poster
7.5

After the COVID-19 pandemic, Busan International Film Festival founder Kim Dong-ho, at eighty-five, picks up a camcorder for the first time and decides to make a documentary. His lens turns toward cinemas struggling through the crisis, as beloved theaters vanish amid dwindling audiences. Seeking to reconnect with old friends, "Mr. Kim" — now nearing ninety — travels the world to talk with filmmakers and cinephiles. Through these encounters, he reflects on cinema’s past and future, finding wisdom and resilience in a time of transformation. His journey becomes a meditation on change, memory, and the enduring spirit of film.

Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema

2026

The Cherry Orchard poster
NR

Acclaimed director Simon Stone and his stellar Korean cast bring striking originality to Chekhov’s classic, relocating The Cherry Orchard of old Russia to modern-day Korea. Doyoung Song, a chaebol heiress, returns from abroad to a free and defiant Seoul. Above all, her family business is in peril, threatening the future of her mansion. As the Songs grapple with their status and heritage in a rapidly changing world, quiet tensions unfold within their glass-walled home, and the family collapses into a poignant, beautiful mess.

The Cherry Orchard

2025

Heartbeat poster
NR

Caught up in anxiety, eight-year-old Chul in school tells his teacher that he is going to the bathroom but runs straight home.

Heartbeat

2022

2010s · 9 titles

Ashfall poster
6.9

A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.

Ashfall

2019

The Housemaid poster
6.3

Eun-yi is hired as a maid in a mansion owned by a wealthy businessman. He quickly starts seducing his employee who seemingly has little choice but to comply with his sexual advances. Soon the women of the family plot against Eun-yi who must fight an equally devious battle to protect herself.

The Housemaid

2010

Memories of the Sword poster
6.6

While in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But therefore she must face one of the most powerful men and warriors of the Goryeo Dynasty.

Memories of the Sword

2015

A Man and a Woman poster
6.8

Two strangers have dropped their kids off at a pickup area for a children's camp in Helsinki, Finland. A spark of mutual interest is ignited between the man and woman.

A Man and a Woman

2016

Way Back Home poster
7.6

Jeong-yoon and Jong-bae own a car body repair shop together that gets in financial trouble. To help cover the losses and take care of her family, Jeong-yoon decides to smuggle thirty kilograms of cocaine.

Way Back Home

2013

The Shameless poster
6.5

A homicide detective tries to flush out a mob enforcer by befriending the suspect's beautiful girlfriend, but soon develops romantic feelings for her.

The Shameless

2015

Countdown poster
6.6

A cold-blooded debt collector who never fails to get what he wants meets the beautiful yet mysterious ex-impostor whose every word is nothing but a lie. She has the key to save his life but he discovers that she only puts him into a deeper trouble. Time is running out and he needs to get it done while his heart still beats.

Countdown

2011

Birthday poster
8.1

Returning from eight years abroad at work and in prison, Jeong-il struggles to reconnect with his wife and their young daughter, Ye-sol, whom he barely knows.

Birthday

2019

The Nest poster
5.0

A boy adopted by a married couple who lives with her cute daughter comes. The boy's unpleasant behavior continues, and the woman who wants a happy family gradually falls into a nightmare.

The Nest

2017

2000s · 7 titles

Untold Scandal poster
6.4

In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.

Untold Scandal

2003

Secret Sunshine poster
7.2

Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.

Secret Sunshine

2007

You Are My Sunshine poster
6.1

An old bachelor Seok-joong, who has no experience in dating, falls in love at first sight with a prostitute named Eun-ha. At first Eun-ha shows no interest in Seok-joong, but gradually she begins to be flattered by his devotion and eventually falls in love with him. They marry. However, one day, Eun-ha finds out that she is infected with HIV and decides to leave Seok-joong.

You Are My Sunshine

2005

My Mother the Mermaid poster
6.7

Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.

My Mother the Mermaid

2004

My Dear Enemy poster
6.8

Hee-soo is desperate for money and finds her ex-boyfriend who owes her money. He goes around to various ex-girlfriends to get cash and she trails along to make sure he does not cheat her.

My Dear Enemy

2008

I Wish I Had a Wife poster
6.6

A lonely Korean banker drags himself through the mundanity of his job and his vacuous social life in the hope that he will eventually find that special someone.

I Wish I Had a Wife

2001

No Blood No Tears poster
6.1

A former safecracker makes a living as a taxi driver but continues to be haunted by her past. One day she chances upon an aspiring singer, who is a spitting image of herself back in the day. Together, the two women plot to steal money from gangsters.

No Blood No Tears

2002

1990s · 5 titles

Series credits

You Quiz on the Block poster
8.3

Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show.

You Quiz on the Block

2018

Movie Room poster
9.4

Movie meets humanities! This talk show/variety show for movie enthusiasts features interesting discussions by a writer and two movie directors where film and humanities intertwine.

Movie Room

2018

Just an Excuse poster
9.7

Yoo Jae-suk Welfare Content Pinggyego (Just an Excuse) It is a content where Yoo Jae-suk freely chats with his favorite friends for various excuses and provides small stories and laughter.

Just an Excuse

2022

The Game Caterers poster
8.7

A webseries where Na Young Seok, a variety show producer, caters people his iconic games from 'New Journey to the West'.

The Game Caterers

2021

Crash Course in Romance poster
8.2

The series follows the bittersweet relationship between a banchan shop owner whose daughter enters the war of Korea's college entrance exams, and a top hagwon instructor.

Crash Course in Romance

2023

The Price of Confession poster
8.0

Accused of killing her husband, a woman is offered a way out by a mysterious stranger: in exchange for a confession in her place, she must commit murder.

The Price of Confession

2025

Baeksang Arts Awards poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Baeksang Arts Awards

2012

Until We Fall in Love poster
10.0

A drama about a woman in her 20s who is attracting family members from large families who are scattered like sand grains. After the death of her husband, who was a lawyer, she ran a glasses company and raised her four brothers and sisters.

Until We Fall in Love

1996

On Air poster
7.0

The lives and love stories of drama producers, writers, actors, and managers.

On Air

2008

Lost poster
8.6

A forty year old woman who feels like she has not accomplished anything in life and a twenty-seven year old man who's frightened of himself.

Lost

2021

Modern Korea poster
10.0

The documentary series were made to look back on Korea’s modern history. It tells stories of specific moments in time weaving together relevant video clips from news broadcasts, dramas, shows and other documentaries

Modern Korea

2019

The Good Wife poster
6.2

A husband works as a successful prosecutor and his future appears bright, but he gets arrested for corruption in a political scandal. His wife worked as an attorney prior to their marriage, now resumes her career after a 13 year hiatus. She begins to find her true identity. An adaptation of the American TV series aired on CBS of the same title.

The Good Wife

2016

Love Story poster
6.0

The drama describes 8 different love stories. Story 1 (Ep. 1-2) : Sunflower - love story about a stalker. Story 2 (Ep. 3-4): Message - love story by a mobile phone and other communication facilities. Story 3 (Ep. 5-6): Lost Bagage - Sad memory makes her lose her future love. Story 4 (Ep. 7-8): Open Ended - A woman who is dying from an illness meets a young guy. Story 5 (Ep. 9-10): Rose - love story between a detective and a criminal. Story 6 (Ep. 11-12): Miss Hip-hop and Mr. Rock - A man and a woman who are mentally different fall in love. Story 7 (Ep. 13-14): Insomnia, Manual and Orange Juice - A woman who acts manually falls in love with a comic book creator. Story 8 (Ep. 15-16): Host of Memory - A woman who receives donated a heart instantly flashes a man's face.

Love Story

1999

Lovers in Prague poster
6.5

When a South Korean diplomat falls for a police officer in Prague, secrets, exes and a class disparity threaten their blossoming romance.

Lovers in Prague

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Snail

1997

Star in My Heart poster
8.0

Star In My Heart was a 1997 Korean drama series run on MBC. One of the earlier Korean dramas to air outside of Korea, as part of what became known as the Korean Wave, it was very popular and helped its cast become widely recognized.

Star in My Heart

1997

Shooting the Star poster
6.0

A fresh romance between a talent manager and an actor with dyslexia unfolds, inspiring strength and courage.

Shooting the Star

2002

Live Talk Show Taxi poster
NR

Live Talk Show TAXI or TAX) is a 2014 South Korean talk show presented by Lee Young-Ja and Oh Man-Suk. It airs on tvN on Tuesdays at 24:20 (KST)

Live Talk Show Taxi

2007

Love is Blue poster
NR

A drama that depicts the journey of Dong-ha, who falls into a difficult slump after Jae-sung’s death and his star-crossed love with Hye-jin, as well as the story of Dong-ha and Jae-sung growing up as close friends and rivals in swimming, and Hye-jin developing a tender romance with Dong-ha.

Love is Blue

1995

사랑의 향기 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

사랑의 향기

1994

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Great Oksuk

2027

No artwork available
NR

Orphan Lee Yun-hee (Choi Jin-sil) is adopted into a hostile family environment. She harbors an undiscovered artistic talent, which helps to catapult her into the lives of two men. She was taken to her father's friend family, after her father died, although while his father's friend had warm feeling towards her she was met with hostility from her new stepmother (Park Won-sook) and her stepsister Ahn Yi-hwa (Jo Mi-ryung), who throughout the series are intriguing with against her.

Star in My Heart

1997