Jeon Do-yeon

Acting

Jeon Do-yeon

Born 1973-02-11 · Seoul, South Korea

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.

Acting credits

Possible Love poster
NR

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

Possible Love

2026

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

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

Ashfall poster
6.8

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

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

Good News poster
6.9

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

Happy End poster
6.6

When a wife becomes the breadwinner of her family after her husband loses his job, adultery becomes part of her life.

Happy End

1999

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

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

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

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

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

Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema poster
10.0

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

A Man and a Woman poster
6.7

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

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

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

You Are My Sunshine poster
6.2

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

The Harmonium in My Memory poster
6.5

Hong-yun is a high school girl in little mountain village when she falls head-over-heels for a handsome new school teacher, Mr. Kang. What with taking care of her youngest baby brother for her widowed mother and the impossible age difference, it is a roller-coaster ride for her as she tries to become someone special for Mr. Kang while he seems interested in the other new teacher at the school, Miss Yang.

The Harmonium in My Memory

1999

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

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

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

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

Countdown poster
6.5

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