Choi Ji-woo

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Choi Ji-woo (born Choi Mi-hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress.

She has been lauded for her role in a variety of melodramas, including Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2004), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016).

Personal life

At Busan Women's College, she majored in aerobic dance. She later joined Hanyang University's Department of Theatre and Film and completed her first year; however, she had to withdraw from college studies due to her hectic work schedule.

Choi married her non-celebrity husband, who is nine years older, on March 29, 2018, in a private wedding, but only after a handwritten letter was posted in her fan club website, she announced it publicly. Choi announced that she was pregnant with her first child on December 23, 2019, and that she gave birth to a daughter on May 16, 2020.

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Career

Choi Mi-hyang first discovered herself in MBC's talent audition program in 1994, and then appeared in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Choi Ji-woo followed her afterwards, and she took the stage name Choi Ji-woo.

She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting abilities resulted in her being replaced during filming. Choi continued to appear in television dramas and films, including The Hole (the original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae-wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung-ki. It was her portrayals of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent appearance on television, especially in Truth opposite Ryu Si-won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung-hun, which contributed to her increasing success.

In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong-joon (she played a supporting role in his 1996 film First Love) and announced that she would appear in her most well-known, iconic role. Winter Sonata, directed by Yoon Seok-ho in the second installment of his "season dramas," has become a huge success in Asia and has been credited as one of the Korean Wave's founders. Choi as a result, gained a large following in Japan, where she acquired the nickname Ji-woo Hime ("Princess Ji-woo")). In 2009, she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. Choi is still a top Hallyu actress and brand in Japan, with high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise based on their estimated gross incomes for the first half of 2011 (tvN's E News assembled a list of the top names in Japan based on her estimated gross incomes, with Choi at number five with approximately US$2 million).

Choi attempted to break into film again after the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang-woo. In Now and Forever, she was a terminally ill heroine, while in Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Ireland's About Adam), she played a more vulnerable character. Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but they did well at the Japanese box office.

Choi spent the next two years in Asia, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She and Lee Jung-jae appeared on Korean television in 2007 in Air City; her position was Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport.

She appeared in the drama Star's Lover in 2009, portraying a leading actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi earned 48 million per episode, the highest compensation for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun-jung's 55 million for the 2010 drama Daemul).

She formed CJW Company with her brother as CEO in the same year. Actresses, an ensemble cast of semi-improvisational mockumentary Actresses, was also included in her most notable film to date.

She was asked if she was worried about losing her pure and innocent image during the 2011 press conference, Can't Lose, co-starring Yoon Sang-hyun, and involving a lawyer couple facing their own divorce case. "I've had the same image for 15 years," Choi said.

Isn't it time for me to break out?

I was a melodrama queen, and now I want to be the romantic comedy queen." Since displaying her upbeat, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night, she said she had gained more followers.

Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management firm against Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her company.

She joined Choi Ji-woo's Delicious Korea on Choi Ji-woo's Food lifestyle cable channel O'Live TV with fashion designer Jung Kuho later this year. The 5-episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture around the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea, where they introduced little-known regional cuisine to the viewers.

She headlined the 2013 revival of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. Choi's book The Suspicious Housekeeper was based on an icy and stoic housekeeper who works for a young father and his four children. Despite the challenges of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was so fascinated by the way the heroines avoids from revealing her emotions."

Choi signed with talent firm YG Entertainment in February 2014. In Temptation, she rejoined her previous costar Kwon Sang-woo; she played a wealthy woman who makes a risky proposition to a married man.

Choi appeared on the fourth season of Grandpas Over Flowers, where she and Lee Seo-jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon-jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun-hyung, and Baek Il-seob. This was followed by the cable television show Twenty Again, where she earned critical acclaim as a young 38-year-old housewife who wanted to experience college life for the first time with her 20-year-old son.

Choi returned to the big screen in seven years in 2016, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. Woman with a Suitcase was the same year that she appeared in the legal drama Woman with a Suitcase.

Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a no-kyung version of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World.

Choi made a cameo appearance in episode 13 of the tvN drama Crash Landing on You in 2019.

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