Song Kang-ho
Song Kang-ho was born in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea on January 17th, 1967 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 57, Song Kang-ho biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Song Kang-ho (Korean: 송강호; born January 17, 1967) is a South Korean actor.Following his debut appearance in The Day a Pig Fell into the Well, Song came to national prominence with a series of critically acclaimed performances in films such as No. 3, Joint Security Area, Memories of Murder, The Host, and Parasite.
He also starred in the internationally released science fiction film Snowpiercer and box office hit A Taxi Driver. Together with Choi Min-sik and Sol Kyung-gu, Song is considered to be one of the most prolific actors in South Korea.
Early life
Song Kang-ho was born in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. He had wanted to be an actor since eighth grade.
Personal life
Song married Hwang Jang-suk in 1995, with whom he has two children. Their son, Song Jun-pyoung, born in 1996, is a former football player for Suwon Samsung Bluewings, despite Song's opposition.
In 2005, Song was found by the police to be drunk driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.095%. His license was suspended for 100 days.
On March 6, 2022, Song donated 100 million won to the Hope Bridge Disaster Relief Association to help the damage from the massive wildfire that started in Uljin, Gyeongbuk and spread to Samcheok, Gangwon.
On July 22, 2022, Song donated 200 million won each at the start of the March 2020 corona crisis and another 100 million won when the east coast bushfires broke out in March, and joined the 'Honors Club', a large donor group.
Career
Song performed in Kee Kuk-seo's theatre company, emphasizing instinctive acting and improvisation. He appeared in A Little Monk in 1991 and spent the next decade as a stage actor. Despite being tempted to appear in films, he ultimately turned down the opportunity until becoming an extra in Hong Sang-soo's 1996 film The Day a Pig Fell into the Well at age 30.
He gained cult notoriety for his appearance in Song Neung-han's No. 2 this year after playing one of the homeless in Jang Sun-woo's documentary-style Bad Movie. He received his first acting award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards as a gangster training a group of young people. Song appeared in several supporting roles before his appearance as Han Suk-kyu's top-secret agent partner in Kang Je-gyu's blockbuster thriller Shiri. Song's fame increased with his first leading role in the box office smash The Foul King, for which he did the majority of his own stunts in early 2000.
It was his award-winning 2000 debut in Joint Security Area as a North Korean sergeant who established him as one of South Korea's top players. Song appeared in Park Chan-wook's acclaimed sequel, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, which centers on a father's search for his daughter's kidnappers. In 2002, Song appeared in another big film starring Myung Films, YMCA Baseball Team, about Korea's first baseball team, which was founded in the early twentieth century.
In 2003, he starred in another critically acclaimed hit, Memories of Murder, from young director Bong Joon-ho. It was the first of several critically acclaimed films they would produce together, with commentators describing Bong's relationship with Song as a "great actor-director collaboration."
In 2004, Song appeared in The President's Barber, directed by debutant Im Chan-sang, which imagines the life of South Korean President Park Chung-hee's personal barber. He took the lead in Antarctic Journal in the following year, contributing to a big-budget venture by debut director Yim Pil-sung about an expedition in Antarctica that failed disappointingly at the box office.
Song was thrust back into the spotlight in 2006, but it was not until she appeared in Bong Joon-ho's record-breaking creature film The Host that she was praised. The film aided in international recognition of Song's talent, and in March 2007, he was named Best Actor at the inaugural Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong.
More high-profile projects followed: the Show Must Go On, an aging gangster, Lee Chang-dong's The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Park Chan-wook's debut on the Chinese-language blockbuster Snowpiercer, the gangster romance film Hindsight, the English-language spy drama The Face Reader, and the Attorney, which was inspired by Roh Moo-hyun's early days as a human rights advocate.
Song has appeared in a number of critically acclaimed films, including The Throne, a period film that puts a new twist on King Yeongjo and Prince Sado; period action film The Age of Shadows; and A Taxi Driver, a film that depicts the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement.
He was more recently cast in the critically acclaimed film Parasite, which was also directed by Bong Joon-ho, and was the first South Korean film to win the Palme d'Or, as well as the first to be nominated for and win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
He was named one of the nine judges in the 74th Cannes Film Festival's competition segment from July 6 to July 17. He was named Best Actor at the 75th Cannes Film Festival for his role in Broker the following year.