Lee Hye-young

Acting

Lee Hye-young

Born

1962-11-25 (63)

Place of birth

Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Lee Hye-young (이혜영) is a South Korean film, television, and theater actress.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

The Old Woman with the Knife poster
6.5

Aging assassin Hornclaw has seen it all, but she never expected to mentor a reckless rookie like Bullfight. As their unlikely bond deepens, cracks form in the underworld they navigate together. When Hornclaw discovers someone wants her dead, she's thrust into a deadly game of deception. With enemies closing in and trust in short supply, survival means staying sharp—both blade and mind.

The Old Woman with the Knife

2025

A Traveler's Needs poster
6.5

Iris, a woman abroad in Seoul, teaches French and English in an idiosyncratic fashion that allows her to pursue her own philosophical and personal interests. Through four encounters over a single day, Iris probes students and strangers for information about poetry, their own histories, and their relationship to their egos.

A Traveler's Needs

2024

A Year-End Medley poster
7.2

A romantic comedy of a young man and woman that is told in the background of hotel 'Emross'. It has stories of people who met each other at Hotel Emross during the New Year holidays. Each one has his own memory to relate and create relationships or just going nostalgic.

A Year-End Medley

2021

The Anchor poster
6.0

A mysterious informant calls a broadcast news anchor to request that the anchor report on the informant’s inevitable death.

The Anchor

2022

The Novelist's Film poster
6.5

A novelist visits a bookstore run by a young colleague who's been out of touch, then takes a walk with a film director and his wife. She meets an actress and tries to convince her to make a film together.

The Novelist's Film

2022

Walk Up poster
6.4

A series of interactions take place between an established film director, his estranged daughter interested in interior design, an interior designer, and others inside a multi-story commercial and residential building.

Walk Up

2022

In Front of Your Face poster
6.7

She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day. A few days ago she kind of burst in to stay with her sister, and she is now becoming re-accustomed to life in Korea. While seeming to keep a grave secret to herself, she manages life one day at a time with a sense of mindfulness. Meanwhile a certain director, some years younger than her, has asked her to join his project, and after a polite refusal, they have agreed to meet for the first time today. Downtown Seoul is filled with narrow alleys that harbor tiny old bars, and that's where they meet. As they are getting drunk, there is sudden rainfall and thunder.

In Front of Your Face

2021

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 10 titles

North Korean Partisan in South Korea poster
7.2

Reporter for a North Korean news service joins the partisans when the Americans and UN forces invade South Korea.

North Korean Partisan in South Korea

1990

Fly High, Run Far poster
6.6

In mid-19th Century Korea, the people of Joseon Dynasty embrace the new religion Donghak. After the founder is executed, Choi Si-hyeong becomes Donghak’s second-generation leader and successfully propagates the religion, but in doing so becomes the object of oppression by the royal court.

Fly High, Run Far

1991

The Hair Dresser poster
7.0

A former dog-stylist creates a phony resume and sets up shop as Henri Park, a man who studied hairdressing in Paris. His styles soon become the sensation of the neighborhood causing the competition to seek ways to keep their customers and drive Henri out of business.

The Hair Dresser

1995

Korean Connection poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Korean Connection

1990

Blood and Fire poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Blood and Fire

1991

Myong-Ja Akiko Sonia poster
7.0

The life of a woman through the tumultuous years of Korea's modern history.

Myong-Ja Akiko Sonia

1992

Passage to Buddha poster
7.3

A young boy mourns the death of his father, and begins a quest to find his mother. He encounters many people on the way who quote Buddhist precepts: an eccentric monk, a girl who grows up into a young woman, a prison inmate, a foul-mouthed doctor and the young son of a hard drinking astronomer. Each of them tell the boy to seek someone to help him find the truth and his mother.

Passage to Buddha

1993

Sudden Change poster
7.0

Yeji meets Robin, a businessman, when her car breaks down. He tracks her down and hires her despite her outrageous salary demands. Eventually they marry, but Ye-jin becomes romantically involved with a lawyer, Jae-woo. Not long after, her husband is found murdered and Ye-jin is the prime suspect

Sudden Change

1994

No artwork available
NR

Follows an extraordinary weekend in the not-so-extraordinary life of Jinho. The story unravels around the fatalistic pattern of our meek hero's existence-where a chance meeting with the devil offers Jinho an escape hatch to his daily humdrum, and a shot at his greatest fantasy: a night of unbridled passion with all the women of his choosing as his personal sex slaves. Jinho's shy and idiosyncratic character, however, belie the true greed and foolery of his own desires-and steeped in his "Sysphus-esque" lack of self-knowledge, he falls prey to the glitter of the forbidden fruit.

A Nursery Tale

1999

No artwork available
9.0

Twenty-nine year old Seo Sung-yim and twenty-six year old Shin Gil-woo want to escape from the boredom of everyday life. They meet accidentally and set out on a journey together. They spend their money as if they're trying to get back at the world and get immense pleasure from this. Although they are together for only a short time, they begin to understand each other. But Gil-woo's death takes him back to is former life and Sung-yim goes back to his everyday existence as if nothing ever happened.

The Winter Dream Does Not Fly

1991

1980s · 14 titles

Sa Bang-ji poster
6.6

Sa Bangji was an intersex person who according to historical records lived during Korea’s Joseon Dynasty. Taken in by a kindly benefactor, Sa Bangji lives in a monastery that is one day visited by a young widow, Lee So-sa, who is in mourning following the death of her husband. The pair’s meeting seems predestined, with the erotic attraction between Sa Bangji and Lee So-sa soon evolving into something far more transcendent – and dangerous. While aspects of the film – its stylised depiction of female actors and sex – identify it as a product of its time, Sa Bangji is undeniably a milestone in screen representations of intersex people, a film that refuses to shy away from the horrendous stigmatization faced by its titular character.

Sa Bang-ji

1988

Between the Knees poster
5.4

Ja-young is a flutist. When her father has a child out of wedlock, her mother regards sex as a sin out of anger towards him. Ja-young grows up under her mother's exceedingly oppressive notions.

Between the Knees

1984

Winter Wanderer poster
6.2

Min-woo, a medical student from a wealthy family, runs into Da-hye) as he rides his bicycle on campus. At first Da-hye dislikes Min-woo, but thanks to help from his charismatic friend Hyeon-tae, he grows closer to Da-hye and the two fall deeply in love. But happiness would not last long. Min-woo's business goes belly-up, and then he learns his birth mother is a military base-town prostitute. Do disturbed by this all he ends up in jail. Meanwhile, Da-hye grows more dependent on Hyeon-tae, and Hyeon-tae gets caught between his friendship for Min-woo and his love for Da-hye...

Winter Wanderer

1986

A Street Musician poster
6.0

Jae-hee, who left as a college student, and Seo-ha, who got a job at a company in a local small city, are high school alumni. Seo-ha meets and loves Yoon-soo, the company's president's son, but Yoon-soo is engaged to Jae-hee, whom he met on the train, and goes to the U.S. to study. Seo Ha, who overcame his wounds and went to drug abuse in the provinces, shows a static situation, but after joining the military, he sends news of his participation in the Vietnam War. After graduating, Seo Ha gets a job at a big pharmaceutical company with the help of Yoon Soo. Seo Ha gets into a car accident in a meeting where she declares her last to Yoon-soo, who persistently wants her due to her breakdown with Jae-hee. Seo Ha, who married Jeong Tae, who returned from Vietnam, eventually died of cancer, leaving her son Young-jin behind.

A Street Musician

1987

Ticket poster
5.8

The lives of the women working in a "café" in a South Korean port town, where customers exchange tickets for services.

Ticket

1986

The Age of Success poster
6.6

Kim Pan-chok is assigned to work in the sales promotion department of Yumi Inc., a sweetener manufacturer. He falls ill after a heated sales war with Gammi Inc., a leading competitor and is hospitalized. He devises a genius plan while in the hospital.

The Age of Success

1988

Dangerous Scent poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dangerous Scent

1988

Mrs. Kim Ma-ri poster
9.0

When viewed in public, the Kim's seem to have the perfect marriage. In private, however, their married life is filled with turbulence, fighting, cheating, and accusations.

Mrs. Kim Ma-ri

1983

The Blazing Sun poster
5.8

Chun-ho and his wife Sun-hie wander Korea in search of a way to make a living under Japanese colonial occupation. They settle in a mining village where Sun-hie is forced to put up with her husband's gambling and beatings. Eventually he forces her to go to a loanshark so he can get enough money to run away with a prostitute.

The Blazing Sun

1985

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Second Sex

1989

The Home of Two Women poster
7.0

Resentment rages between two sisters, one of whom was indirectly responsible for her husband's death and the other who secretly loved him.

The Home of Two Women

1987

Mother's Wedding poster
9.0

Things backfire for young Cheol-hie when she convinces her father to go on a blind date with her kindergarten teacher. It turns out that her teacher is actually Cheol-hie's birth mother. While at first, Cheol-hie is excited at the possibility of her parents getting back together, it turns out that her mother/teacher has different wedding plans coming up in the near future.

Mother's Wedding

1982

Flower Blooms Even on a Windy Day poster
NR

After a performance depicting the lives of jesters during the Joseon era, the cast, led by director Byungsoo, immerses themselves in rehearsing a new play.

Flower Blooms Even on a Windy Day

1987

A Queen Bee poster
8.0

Mi-hie's affair with her foreign English teacher comes to an end. Feeling that she is ruined for marriage, Mi-hie dubs herself the Queen Bee and begins the life of a prostitute in Itaewon. When she learns that her sister is dating an American, Min-hie decides to make an example of him as a warning to others.

A Queen Bee

1986

Series credits

Boys Over Flowers poster
8.3

A poor high school student earns a scholarship to an elite academy, where she clashes with the most popular boy in school!

Boys Over Flowers

2009

Baeksang Arts Awards poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Baeksang Arts Awards

2012

Big Bet poster
5.9

Cha Moosik runs a casino bar, only to flee to the Philippines due to a crackdown by the National Tax Service. He launches a full-fledged casino business, and strategizes winning over the political and business circles in the Philippines. However, he is suddenly framed as a suspect in Min Seokjun's death, and is tracked by Oh Seunghoon of the Korean Desk. Betrayal is rampant in the presence of money.

Big Bet

2022

Lawless Lawyer poster
7.5

Driven by the desire to avenge his mother, a former gangster turned lawyer uses both his fists and the loopholes in law to fight against those with absolute power.

Lawless Lawyer

2018

무작정 패밀리 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

무작정 패밀리

2012

Mother poster
8.5

A young girl named Hye-Na is abused by her mother, Ja-Young. Although she is not okay, she tells other people she is alright. Soo-Jin is a temporary teacher at the elementary school where Hye-Na attends. Soo-Jin is aware of her situation and decides to become her mother.

Mother

2018

Kill Heel poster
4.2

Set within the competitive power struggles of TV home shopping hosts, three hosts compete each other with intense desires to achieve success and gain fame in the industry field. Among them is Hyun, who has a mundane and just ordinary career. Because she does not get much shine as Ok-sun, she falls in anxiety.

Kill Heel

2022

Bitter Sweet Hell poster
7.8

Noh Young-won, a successful psychological counselor and celebrity, and her mother-in-law, Hong Sa-kang, face an incident that threatens their happy family and they try to work together to protect their precious family.

Bitter Sweet Hell

2024

I'm Sorry, I Love You poster
7.9

Cha Moo Hyuk is a man who was adopted by an Australian family but treated cruelly and then abandoned at a young age. By chance, he meets Song Eun Chae, a fashion coordinator dedicated to her employer, singer Choi Yune. Their meeting will have implications for the rest of Cha Moo Hyuk's life as a devastating turn of events leads him to delve into his past, and ultimately find happiness.

I'm Sorry, I Love You

2004

Fashion 70's poster
3.0

Fashion 70's is a 2005 South Korean television series starring Lee Yo-won, Kim Min-jung, Joo Jin-mo and Chun Jung-myung. It was the network's 60th Anniversary of Independence Great Project, and it aired on SBS from May 23 to August 29, 2005 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 28 episodes. An epic, sprawling drama, it focuses on the lives of four young people, from their childhood during the Korean War, to their careers and love lives as adults. It portrays the passion of female fashion designers who pioneered Korea's fashion industry in the 1970s.

Fashion 70's

2005

Goodbye My Love poster
4.6

Goodbye My Love was a South Korean television drama series that aired with 16 episodes in 1999.

Goodbye My Love

1999

I Am Sorry, I Love You 2024 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I Am Sorry, I Love You 2024

2024

Papa poster
6.5

Couple #1 "Truthful love" that matures through the asdness of break-up Hyun-jun and Sae-young, sho got married after a hot romance as a campus couple, collide because of trivial everyday problems. Ultimately, when Sae-young miscimceives her husband's relationship whirwinds into a divorce. Couple #2 "comical love" that is as comfortable and natural as a friendship Goong, Sae-young's elementary school classmate, is an oriental medicine doctor. He is a widowed single father. Ond day, he goes into a neighborhood drugstore and meets Hye-won. He is attracted to her, but at this time, a dispute arise and makes their relationship awkward. Couple #3 "naive and lively love" in which we can get a glimps of the typical new-generation love style. In-pyo, is a playboy by nature. He puts his excessive lifestyle in order and stives to becomd a famous actor after becoming attracted to his nephew Sae-byul's kindergartem teacher. source asianwiki

Papa

1996