Moon So-ri

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Moon So-ri (born July 2, 1974) is a South Korean actress, film producer, and screenwriter.

She is best known for her leading roles in Oasis (2002) and A Good Lawyer's Wife (2004).

Personal life

Moon had a stringent upbringing; she was not allowed to attend the theater and was also required to read classical literature, according to Moon. She had to learn pansori, play the violin, and the gayageum throughout her childhood.

On December 24, 2006, Moon married Jang Joon-hwan, the producer of cult film Save the Green Planet. Both graduates from Sungkyunkwan University, and they appeared together in Jang's 2003 music video ("Flower of Tears," according to a YouTube video. Moon gave birth to a daughter on August 4, 2011, after suffering a miscarriage in 2010.

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Career

Moon So-ri earned a degree in Education from Sungkyunkwan University, and he appeared in Hangang ("Han River") from 1995 to 1997, where he also participated in its creation. She appeared in plays and short films including Black Cut and To the Spring Mountain before gaining notoriety as a leading actress. Her first film appearance was in Lee Chang-dong's highly acclaimed Peppermint Candy, but her acting skills weren't fully demonstrated until she appeared in her second film Oasis, also by Lee Chang-dong. Her powerful portrayal of a woman with cerebral palsy earned her acclaim at the Venice Film Festival, as well as the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Emerging Actor or Actress at the 2002 Venice Film Festival (Moon is only the second Korean woman to win a prize since Kang Soo-yeon in 1985 for The Surrogate Woman). She was also named Best Actress at the 2003 Seattle International Film Festival.

In Im Sang-soo's third film A Good Lawyer's Wife, she found fame in the following year. This film was a 180-degree change from her previous screen shot of her as a free thinking woman in a declining marriage who starts an affair with the teenage boy next door. This film was also accepted to the Venice Film Festival, and she later received the Best Actress award from the Stockholm International Film Festival. At several domestic awards ceremonies that followed, the case with Oasis was similar. Best Actress award winners were also recognized.

Moon appeared in The President's Barber, a film that reveals 20 years of modern Korean history through the eyes of president Park Chung-hee's personal barber. She played a more central role in her forthcoming film Sa-kwa, an introspective family drama about a woman who begins a new life after being rejected by her long-time boyfriend.

Also from 2005, Bravo, My Life!

In a family drama set against the political turmoil of those days, she saw her return to the historical era of the late 1970s/early 1980s.

She appeared in Bewitching Attraction in 2006 and later in Life Ties as a sexually promiscuous professor, followed by a disapproving sister (for which she shared Best Actress awards with three co-stars, 2006 Thessaloniki Film Festival, where their film also received Best Picture and Best Screenplay awards. In 2007, Moon appeared in her first television series, The Legend, a big-budget fusion fantasy-period drama. My Heart Is Not Broken Yet, a documentary on Song Sin-do and her decade-long court fight against the Japanese government for an official apology toward her fellow comfort women, was then narrated by her.

She followed that with the sporting film Forever the Moment (a sleeper hit in 2008), another TV drama (about a family of grown-up siblings), and the human rights-themed Fly, Penguin in 2009.

In the short film Take Action, Now or Never! Kim Tae-yong directed Moon in Seoul, Germany, to promote the 2009 Green Film Festival. Her husband Jang Joon-hwan appeared in a cameo) to discuss power saving, cycling, and handkerchief use. She was also one of Baik Hyun-jhin's short film The End's four main characters.

Moon appeared in A Little Pond, the 2010 dramatization of the No Gun Ri Massacre, in Los Angeles, Hong Sang-soo's Ha Havoc appeared on the ensemble cast of Hong Sang-soo's Ha Havoc. In the Uncertain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha ha won the top award.

Moon did not always want to return to her stage roots in 2006 in Sulpun Yonguk ("Sad Play") and again in The Pitmen Painters' 2010 Korean production.

"In 2011 Leafie became the most popular Korean animated film of the modern age, with over 2 million admissions. Her voice for Leafie, A Hen into the Wild was described as "fully recognizable and articulating the gumption and touching naivete of the eponymous hen with great conviction." Moon came from Konkuk University's Faculty of Arts as a film researcher that was also interested in film studies in the same year.

In 2012, she worked with Hong Sang-soo in In Another Country, which was also praised by French actress Isabelle Huppert, for whom Moon is a fan.

Moon took a risk on newbie director Park Myung-rang and joined the cast of his 2013 crime thriller An Ethics Lesson because he found his script "unique and innovative." Sol Kyung-gu was reunited with her in the spy film The Spy: Undercover Operation.

Moon appeared in Venus Talk in 2014 about three women in their forties' passionate and sex lives. She also appeared in Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits, the Korean modern history exhibit, examining a shaman's checkered past and exorcism-based imagination. Hill of Freedom, a Hong Kong-soo feature, was followed by a few others.

She was named as one of the co-hosts of a new talk show, Magic Eye, on television; this was the first time Moon had been involved in variety programming.

Moon's debut with the short film The Actress, in which she played the title character who goes mountain climbing with colleagues, then heads out for drinks with a group of male acquaintances; once alcohol has loosened her tongues, she discovers their prejudices against her. It premiered at the 19th Busan International Film Festival, where she co-hosted the first ceremony with Ken Watanabe. In 2017, the feature-length film premiered alongside two other short films The Running Actress and The Best Director. Moon has cited Lee Chang-dong as a major influence on her directorial career, saying that she remembered her experience with Lee a lot while making these three shorts.

Moon was the first Korean actor to be accepted as a jury member of the Locarno International Film Festival in 2015; festival artistic director Carlo Chatrian praised her "brave choices (in selecting projects)" and called Moon "the jewel of the Korean film industry." She was invited to the Venice International Film Festival in the first South Korean actress to act as a juror on the Orizzonti section the following year.

In 2017, Moon appeared in the election film The Mayor as a political journalist. Moon appeared in the Korean film adaptation of the Japanese manga series Little Forest in 2018, starring the main character (Kim Tae-ri)'s mother.

Good Day by Zhang Lu, criminal film Juror 8, and school bullying drama I Want to See Your Parents' Face Moon was also a director on Moon's forthcoming film The Underdog, directed by Leafie A Hen, was one of Moon's forthcoming films.

Moon appeared in the film Three Sisters, in which she received two Best Actress accolades from the prestigious 42nd Blue Dragon Film Awards and 41st Korean Association of Film Critics Awards, as well as a nomination in the Best Actress – Film category in the 57th Baeksang Arts Awards category in 2021. Moon appeared in the MBC drama On the Verge of Insanity on MBC with Jung Jae-young and Lee Sang-yeob. Moon has confirmed that she will be cast in the Netflix film Seoul Vibe with actor Yoo Ah-in, as well as Netflix drama Queen Maker with actress Kim Hee-ae, which are both scheduled to be released around 2022.

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