Gong Hyo-jin 공효진

At 44 years old, Gong Hyo-jin 공효진 has this physical status:

Gong Hyo-jin (born April 4, 1980) is a South Korean actress.

She is best known for her leading roles in the film Crush and Blush (2008), as well as her breakout television show Sang Doo! Let's Go To School (2003), Thank You (2007), Pasta (2010), The Greatest Love (2011), The Greatest Love (2014), The Producers (2015), Don't Dare to Dream (2016), When the Camellia Blooms, 2019).

Due to her success in her rom-com comedies, she is regarded as the queen of romantic comedies.

Early life

Gong Hyo-jin was born in 1980 in Sinwol-dong, Gangseo District, Seoul, South Korea. She and her older brother and mother were born in Australia when she was a freshman in high school, but her father remained in Korea to assist the family. Kong attended high school at John Paul College in Brisbane. Kong has recalled her time in the area, and she was named as one of the goodwill ambassadors for "Year of Friendship" in 2011, the 50th anniversary of bilateral relations between Australia and South Korea.

The Gong family migrated back to Korea in 1997 after three years in Australia due to the IMF's crisis.

Personal life

Gong and Kevin Ohr revealed that they were dating in April 2022. Kevin revealed in letters posted on his social media pages that they were getting married in October in the United States and would be held privately with only close relatives from both families. On October 11, 2022 (US time) in New York City, they married in a private ceremony.

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Career

After returning to Korea, Gong began to work as a model. She appeared in advertisements, most notably the "Happy to Live" commercial for telecom 700–5425. She made her acting debut in Memento Mori after a year and a half of modeling. Kim Tae-yong and Min Kyu-dong co-directed the comedy film, which took a new look at teenage female sexuality and its destructive power, melding sapphism and the supernatural at a girls' high school. Despite the fact that it was not a box office hit in 1999, young Korean filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts continue to refer to it as a modern-day masterpiece. At first, Gong wasn't serious about acting and couldn't wait for filming to be over, but Memento Mori's critical success inspired her to continue acting, and she followed that with a role in the 2000 sitcom My Funky Family.

(Gong and Ryoo later received Best New Actress and Best New Actor in the Baeksang Arts Awards in 2001), she appeared in the 25-episode television series Wonderful Months, where she played a bus conductor with a one-sided crush on Ryoo Seung-bum's character. The young actress spent her first year in 2002, appearing in small parts in Jang Jin's comedy Guns & Talks and teenage martial arts film Volcano High, and she was cast in Emergency Act 19 and A Bizarre Love Triangle.

The success of Gong in Ruler of Your Own World grabbed the industry's attention. The TV show was praised for its realistic writing and strong acting, earning it the nickname "mania drama" (or cult hit) in Korea. She appeared opposite Ryoo in Conduct Zero this year, receiving recognition for her role as the girls' high school's tough-talking "boss" in that year. Both audiences and critics were very positive about the 1980s-set retro comedy.

In a controversial story about a girl who falls in love with her older brother-in-law in a controversial setting, the 2003 series Snowman paired Gong with Cho Jae-hyun and Kim Rae-won. In Sang Doo, she then returned to more mainstream fare. Let's Go to School, directed by TV producer Lee Hyung-min, who had previously worked with her in a Drama City episode. Gong, a high school teacher who finds her childhood sweetheart back in school, now a gigolo and single father with a sick child. The drama, which was known as Rain's debut as an actor, received acclaim in the charts, and Gong received several accolades at the KBS Drama Awards.

In 2004, to 2005, Gong suffered through a career slump. She was dissatisfied with the scripts she was receiving and thought she was being typecast in ingenue roles. Gong wished to portray meatier, "real woman" roles in Hello My Teacher and a scientist in Heaven's Soldiers, but she was unable to do nudity in film.

Kim Tae-yong, Memento Mori's (whom Gong considers her mentor), gave her a place in Family Ties in 2009, a role he had written specifically for her. The film received widespread attention for its delicately observed, cross-generational look at dysfunctional families. The cast was praised for their brilliant acting, with reviews raving about Gong's portrayal of an angry young woman in a deeply troubled marriage with her mother. The Best Actress Award from the Korean Film Academy was given to Moon So-ri, Go Doo-shim, and Kim Hye-ok at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece, where she also received the Best Actress Award. Family Ties marked a turning point in her career, giving Gong a renewed passion for acting.

Thank You, written by Sang-doo scribe Lee Kyung-hee, returned to television in 2007. Several actresses had turned down the unglamorous role of a single mother with an HIV-positive daughter and a grandfather with dementia; another reason being that this was lead actor Jang Hyuk's comeback after his draft-dodging scandal. Despite little hype, Thank You became a modest success and climbed to number one in the Timeslot. The viewer reaction to the drama had been mainly heartwarming and life-affirming, according to Gong. The maternal role served to soften and feminize her image, but Gong was also praised for her nuanced portrayal of her character in a realistic manner, assisting in preventing the scene from being overly maudlin or saccharine.

After Thank You, Gong went back to film and assumed supporting roles for the opportunity to work with some of the country's finest directors. In Hur Jin-ho's melodrama Happiness, she played a troubled fiancée in Lee Myung-se's stylistic psychodrama M, as well as a spy for a spy in Dachimawa Lee's action comedy/parody Dachimawa Lee.

Strong performances in various roles contributed to Gong's reputation as a leading actress, but Crush and Blush, 2008, would be her most high-profile film to date. Lee Kyoung-mi's debut, divisive, was praised by critics as one of the most original Korean films in recent years, and although its box office performance was disappointing, it gained a sort of cult status among Korean cinephiles. With an unattractively blushing red face, frizzy hair, dowdy clothes, and a continuing case of inferiority complex and hopeless delusion, Gong converted herself into a misanthropic antiheroine. When Gong was first introduced with the script, he had a fetus. She eventually accepted and threw herself into the role after being reportedly advised by fellow actor Jeon Do-yeon. Park Chan-wook, the film's producer, lauded Gong's subtle emotional variations and told her that she might not be able to surpass this appearance and joking that she should retire. She received numerous acting awards in Korea, including Best Actress trophies from the Korean Film Awards, Director's Cut Awards, and Women in Film Korea Awards. In addition, she was nominated for the Blue Dragon Film Awards and Baeksang Arts Awards, as well as a Rising Star Award from the New York Asian Film Festival.

Gong played an aspiring chef in the 2010 romance comedy film Pasta after starring close friend Shin Min-ah in the 2009 Indie Sisters on the Road. Originally written as the traditional brash and spunky rom-com heroine, Gong considered it would be tedious and clichéd to portray her as such, but instead made the transition into a more believable woman who was clearly meek, but then found her way. Its chemistry with co-star Lee Sun-kyun and the drama's breezy atmosphere helped propel it to the top of the ratings charts.

Gong belonged to a third, surprisingly small group of eccentrics, despite the simple categorization of innocent (Choi Ji-woo, Song Hye-kyo) or sexy (Kim Hye-soo), with Kang Hye-jung and Bae Doona. Despite being not a natural beauty, Gong was given the name Gongvely by the media, a portmanteau of her surname, and the English word "lovely" in honor of her victory over Pasta.

Gong starred in Rolling Home with a Bull, another low-budget indie adapted from Kim Do-yeon's book in an evolving pattern of alternating mainstream television series with more risky big-screen projects. In Yim Soon-rye's part-road film, she played a widow traveling with her poet ex-boyfriend.

In the television series The Greatest Love, Gong starred opposite Cha Seung-won in 2011. The romantic comedy, written by the Hong sisters, is set in the entertainment industry and about an unexpected encounter between a has-been pop star and a top actor. The series was a big hit among fans, resulting in increased traffic for Cha and Gong. She was also praised for her naturalistic, no-nonsense behavior, which helped to buffer Cha's wacky antics. The MBC Drama Awards' Best Love swept the MBC Drama Awards, including a Top Excellence Award for Gong for the third time (after Thank You and Pasta). At the Baeksang Arts Awards later this year, Gong received Best Actress for TV.

Beautiful 2012, a series of four Micro Movies produced by Chinese internet platform Youku, she co-starred with Kim Tae-yong for another film collaboration with Kim Tae-yong. "What is beautiful" is the subject of this review. Park Hee-soon's short film You Are More Than Beautiful portrays a man who recruits Young-hee (Gong) to pretend to be his fiancée as he welcomes her to his dying father in Jeju Island. In 2013, You Are More Than Beautiful was released as a theatrical performance.

Gong, who was uninterested in stereotypical pretty roles, preferred playing multi-faceted women, like the laidback, ambiguous female lead with unshaved armpit hair in Love Fiction. Gong, a well-known actress for her on-stage and public appearance, confessed to her personal life and reported her concerns to its chief Jeon Kye-soo. Despite the fact that Gong said she'd rather make small-scale films rather than do a shallow blockbuster, Love Fiction was her most commercial film to date, and it broke even at more than 1.7 million admissions. Ha Jung-woo, a film that follows a group of actors walking 577 kilometers (358 miles) around the country, reunited her with Love Fiction co-star Ha Jung-woo in the 577 Project.

In 2013, Gong starred in a comedy film based on Cheon Myung-kwan's book Aging Family about a grown-up trio of siblings who embark on a string of misadventures after moving back to their mother's house. Gong said she felt the narcotic delight of her character's constant cursing, as well as the joy of being in an ensemble in which the actors have a natural chemistry with each other. Youn Yuh-jung, a veteran actress, said the role of a twice-divorced single mother was so convincing for her that she couldn't imagine anyone else doing it.

In their upcoming series Master's Sun, a romantic comedy with horror elements, the Hong sisters cast her again. Costar So Ji-sub praised Gong as "the best Korean actress currently working in romantic comedy." The drama series was a commercial success and boosted So and Gong's domestic and international fame.

Gong starred as a psychiatrist who suffers from schizophrenia (played by Jo In-sung) in the medical-melodrama series It's Okay, That's Love in 2014. She praised the opportunity because of screenwriter Noh Hee-kyung, who had also written a romance Gong appeared in the film Wonderful Days a decade ago. Despite poor ratings, It's Okay, That's Love came third in the year-end Content Power Index and was lauded for addressing the stigma and social stigma surrounding people with mental health problems and other minorities.

Gong made her stage debut in the Willy Russell play Educating Rita, which depicts the friendship between a young working class hairdresser and a middle-aged university lecturer over the course of a year. (played by Jeon Moosong)

In 2015, she appeared in The Producers, a variety drama series written by Park Ji-eun who also wrote the highly awaited My Love From the Star. Gong is a Music Bank variety show producer who has been involved with radio for ten years. The drama earned solid viewership ratings domestically, and international recognition has soared.

In 2016, Gong starred in the SBS romantic comedy drama Don't Dare to Dream opposite Jo Jung-suk, as a weather broadcaster. She appeared in Missing, a mystery film about a babysitter who disappears with someone else's child one day. On the big screen, Gong's versatility was lacking.

In 2017, Gong appeared in the thriller Single Rider starring Lee Byung-hun. She was a child violinist who lived in Australia with her son.

Gong appeared in Door Lock, a mystery thriller about women's fears in 2018.

Gong appeared in a police action film Hit-and-Run Squad with Ryu Jun-yeol and Jo Jung-suk, a car chase thriller that focuses on hit and runs, followed by romantic comedy film Crazy Romance starring Snowman co-star Kim Rae-won. She made her small-screen return to Kang Ha-neul's romantic comedy thriller When the Camellia Blooms the same year. Both Crazy Romance and When the Camellia Blooms are commercial successes, and she has solidified her position as the romantic comedy queen. At the KBS Drama Awards, Gong received the Grand Prize award.

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