Cha Seung-won

At 53 years old, Cha Seung-won has this physical status:

Cha Seung-won (born 7 June 1970) is a South Korean actor who began his career as an in-demand fashion model in the 1990s.

Cha gained fame from the hit comedy films Kick the Moon (1901), Jail Breakers (2002), My Teacher, Mr. Kim (2003), and Ghost House (2004).

Cha's fame in other genres, particularly in the period drama Blood Rain (2005) and the melodrama My Son (2004), has continued with Bodyguard (2003), City Hall (2009), The Greatest Love (2011), and Hwayugi (2017).

Personal life

Cha Ye-ni (born 2003) and his partner Lee Soo-jin are biological parents to daughter Cha Ye-ni (born 2003 as Rachel). Cha No-ah, the actor's uncle from Cha and Lee's 1989 birth, filed (and quickly dropped) a 100 million defamation lawsuit against Cha, resulting in the actor's admission that No-ah is Lee's son from his previous marriage, and that when he and Lee married, Cha was legally adopted No-ah, who was then three years old. Cha had redated his marriage date in 1989 to match No-ah's age, apologizing for the white lie because their son did not know his paternity.

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Career

Cha dropped out of Sungkyunkwan University and began a fruitful career as a fashion model in 1988. He was cast in the TV sitcom New York Story, which would eventually lead to his debut in film.

Despite the fact that his debut film Holiday In Seoul (1997) and several of his subsequent roles did not establish him as a leading actor, he attracted notice in 2000 for his role as an arsonist in the firefighting film Libera Me. Kim Sang-jin's comedy Kick the Moon, which sold over 4.3 million tickets, has firmly established himself in the industry as a leading actor with strong celebrity appeal. Since then, Cha has been one of the country's few surefire box office draws. In a 2005 survey of top ten most bankable actors, he was ranked as one of the top ten most influential movie makers.

In early 2003, Cha played a marginal schoolteacher who is relocated to a country school in the film My Teacher, Mr. Kim. Cha is praised for his acting skills in the film's 2007 comedy Small Town Rivals, which will later team up with director Jang Gyu-seong). His next role, in Ghost House, reunited him with director Kim Sang-jin in a hit comedy about a man who buys a dream home only to find that it is haunted by a teenage female ghost.

Cha Chaparelli discarded the comedic roles he had hoped for in the gruesome period drama Blood Rain in 2005. Cha's unexpectedly high commercial success affirmed the film's ubiquity among Korean audiences. In Jang Jin's Murder, Take One (also known as The Big Scene), he showcased his versatility.

Cha appeared in his first melodrama Over the Border (2006) about a North Korean defector. In My Son (2004), he reunited with Jang Jin, and he said his experience as a father helped with learning about the character. Eye for an Eye (2008) and Secret (2009) followed.

In the political fairytale City Hall penned by writer Kim Eun-sook, Cha returned to television in 2009. Chase was busy this year, with Cha appearing in two films, the Lee Joon-helmed period actioner Blades of Blood, and Korean War film 71: Goddess of War.

His character, as well as awards for Cha, became a mini pop culture phenomenon in 2011.

Cha in his debut in the stage play Bring Me My Chariot Fire with Japanese actors Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Ryko Hirosue, Teruyuki Kagawa, and Korean veteran actor Kim Eung-soo. The story, which takes place in the early 1900s, focuses on artists from Korea and Japan, who work together to preserve traditional Korean arts.

Cha joined YG Entertainment in 2014 and appeared in the police film You're All Surrounded. In the comedy noir film Man on High Heels, which subverted Cha's "macho" image by requiring him to play a transgender homicide detective, he was followed by his third team-up with director Jang Jin.

Cha appeared in Three Meals a Day: Gochang Village, a cable reality show on the remote Manjae Island for which he earned the nickname "Chajumma" (from the word ajumma) because of the limited amount of ingredients and equipment. Prince Gwanghae was then cast in the period drama Splendid Politics, which focuses on the throne's power struggles in the midst of the Joseon Dynasty. In Kang Woo-suk's period epic Gosanja, Daedongyeojido, written by Park Bum-shin's book The Map Maker, Cha next plays cartographer and geologist Kim Jeong-ho.

Cha was cast in the Hong sisters' fantasy romantic comedy drama A Korean Odyssey in 2017. Cha is a teenager who played in Cheer Up, Mr. Lee in 2019 and in 2021's disaster film Sinkhole.

In 2021, he appeared alongside Kim Soo-hyun in the Coupang Play's television series One Ordinary Day, which was based on the British television show Criminal Justice. He appeared in the television show Our Blues in 2022.

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