Joo Jin-mo

At 49 years old, Joo Jin-mo has this physical status:

Joo Jin-mo (born Park Jin-tae on September 26, 1974) is a South Korean actor.

He is best known for his roles in the films Happy End (1999), 200 Pounds Beauty (2006), A Frozen Flower (2008), as well as the television series Empress Ki (2013).

Personal life

Doctor Min Hye-yeon, a Joo Jin-mo married doctor, died in Jeju Island on June 1, 2019. Min is a graduate of Seoul National University who specializes in family medicine. She has appeared on various health-related television shows, in which she rose to fame and was often referred to as "Kim Tae-hee of the medical world."

Joo Jin-mo revealed in January 2020 that he was a victim of phone hacking and was being blackmailed after several personal messages shared between Joo and his close actor friend appeared on an online community board on January 10, 2020. The messages allegedly contained photos of women and derogatory remarks made by the two guys about the women in the photographs. The incident has been reported to authorities by Joo's department. An investigation is now underway. He also apologized to the women mentioned in the messages.

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Career

Joo was first introduced as a leader in Dance Dance in 1999, after appearing in television dramas and some minor roles in film. Despite the fact that the film itself did not do well, it did give Joo some exposure before he did break through with the box office and critical hit Happy End. In Korea, his role as a spurned lover in this psychological thriller attracted brisk notice, and the film itself travelled to Hong Kong.

After taking the lead in Kim Ki-duk's mildly experimental Real Fiction (which was shot in 3.5 hours without any retakes), Joo played a significant role in the much-hyped Musa, set in 14th-century China and starring Zhang Ziyi from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He appeared in Wanee & Junah, a melodrama starring a screenwriter and an animator opposite Kim Hee-sun.

Joo did the 2003 boxing drama Punch with Shin Min-ah, then returned to the big screen in the comedy Run for Your Wife by Ray Cooney, after some films he had been cast in were postponed due to a lack of funds.

Joo filmed the epic wuxia historical drama Bichunmoo ("Dance in the Sky") from 2004 to 2005, but it didn't air in China and Taiwan in 2006. It was finally on Korean television in 2008, but SBS converted the original 33 episodes into 14.

Meanwhile, Joo and Lee Yo-won's 2005 TV series Fashion 70's received good feedback, with 30 percent. He appeared in Puzzle about a bank robbery gone wrong in 2006 and opposite Kim Ah-joong in the highly acclaimed romantic comedy 200 Pounds Beauty. In 2007, the Kwak Kyung-taek gangster romance A Love co-starring Park Si-yeon appeared.

A Frozen Flower, Yoo Ha's controversial 2008 film about a homosexual Goryeo king (Joo), his queen (Song Ji-hyo), and the royal guard (Jo In-sung) were all in love with him, winning Joo his first Best Actor award at the 45th Baeksang Arts Awards.

In the 2009 TV series Dream, he portrayed a sports agent to a K-1 fighter, but it failed to reach the same timelot as Queen Seondeok. Song Seung-heon, a Joo and Hallyu actress, appeared in A Better Tomorrow, the 2010 Korean remake of John Woo's classic Hong Kong noir film A Better Tomorrow. Joo was ranked fourth in CNNGo's "Top 20 Hottest Male Celebs" list, ranked fourth.

At his first fan meeting in Tokyo by late singer Kim Hyun-sik, Joo first sang "Like Rain, Like Music." In September 2011, he released his version of "Like Rain, Like Music" as a digital single. Joo appeared in Go Joon-hee's accompanying music video.

Joo played a late 19th-century international con man who became embroiled in King Gojong's espionage and political intrigue in 2012's Gabi (the antiquated local term for "coffee"). Joo said he loved the richness of his creative process with director Chang Yoon-hyun that made the role his own. He said he is still waiting for a new role, a drastic departure from the brooding masculinity he has been equated with. "All male actors dream of playing macho guys at one point or another, but they also dream of being in emotionally complex roles." At a press conference, Joo said, "I'm the same."

In "Flow in Fog, a Chinese television drama based on Qiong Yao's novel "Flower is Not Flower, Not Fog"), Joo and Ruby Lin appeared. It was shot in France and aired on Hunan television in 2013. In Empress Ki, a historical drama starring Ha Ji-won in the title role, he then returned to the Goryeo period to play a fictional character based on King Chunghye.

Joo reunited with director Kwak Kyung-taek for Friend: The Great Legacy, the sequel to the 2001 hit film, on the big screen. In 1963, Joo played a gangster, the father of Yoo Oh-sung's character in the original film.

In a 2015 revival of Margaret Mitchell's book, Jo made his theater debut in a revival of Gone with the Wind. "Rhett Butler is a character every actor would love to play," Joo said. On the cable channel jTBC, this was followed by melodrama series This is My Love With Kim Sa-rang (actress).

In November 2016, Joo joined Huayi Brothers, the new management company. He appeared in Woman with a Suitcase in 2017 and Big Issue in 2019.

Joo had resigned from Studio Santa Claus Entertainment's employment on January 3, 2022, according to the story.

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