Uhm Tae-woong

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Uhm Tae-woong (born April 5, 1974) is a South Korean actor.

He made his acting debut in 1998, but he had trouble emerging from the shadow of his older sister, Uhm Jung-hwa, who was popular singer-actress Uhm Jung-hwa.

Uhm began to gain recognition after his gruesome appearance in the romantic comedy Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang, which was followed by several years of small roles and work in one-act dramas.

He made his debut in the critically acclaimed Resurrection in 2005, then followed by another revenge-themed film The Devil in 2007.

Since then, he has appeared in numerous leading film and television roles, including Forever the Moment (2008), Chaw (2009), Architecture 101 (2012), and Man from the Equator (2012).

Personal life

Uhm Jin-ok, a public school music teacher who died from a motorcycle crash before Uhm turned 100 days old. Following his father's death, his family (consisting of his mother, Yoo Gyeong-sook, three older sisters, and him as the youngest) faced serious financial difficulties. In 1993, his elder sister Uhm Jung-hwa began performing as a pop star and released her first album, "Madonna of Korea"; she later moved to acting.

Uhm revealed that he was engaged to ballerina Yoon Hye-jin and that they were expecting their first child on the episode 2 Days & 1 Night on November 4, 2012. Yoon was a principal dancer with the Korea National Ballet before she moved to the Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, the daughter of veteran actor Yoon Il-bong and niece of veteran actor Yoo Dong-geun. They were introduced by Uhm's older sister, Uhm Jung-hwa. The couple wed at Conrad Hotel Seoul on January 9, 2013. On their wedding night, Sung Si Kyung and singer Yoo Hee Yeol performed. Uhm Ji-on, their daughter, was born on June 18, 2013.

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Career

Uhm Tae-woong was unsure which college course to take, so he started at Kyungmin College's drama department because his crush was there. However, even after the girl departed majors, Uhm stayed because he befriended a fellow student who would be his new boss and began behaving in earnest.

Uhm made his acting debut in 1998 at the age of 24, and since then has been seen in films, television dramas, and music videos. Silmido, a 2003 blockbuster, was one of those who died Kim Il-sung in the 1960s. Sol Kyung-gu and Ahn Sung-ki, Silmido's ten million guests, and Ahn encouraged Uhm that he "will turn into a true actor." Uhm continued to audition with no success, owing to a lot of his older sister's popular singer-actress Uhm Jung-hwa's lengthy shadow cast.

In 2004, Uhm appeared as a dying man in the celebrated Drama City episode Blue Skies of Jeju Island, a well-received result for which he received his first acting award at the 2004 KBS Drama Awards.

Uhm's rise to fame in 2005 with the introduction of Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang, a modern retelling of Chunhyangjeon's classic Korean folk tale Chunhyangjeon. Uhm played a talent agency executive who became obsessed with the heroine rather than the villainous magistrate of the folktale.

However, it was Resurrection that cemented his fame later this year. He had originally been cast as the villain, but after lead actor Park Yong-woo died three weeks before filming was interrupted due to scheduling conflicts, director Park Chan-hong took a risk and cast Uhm as the protagonist. It was Uhm's first leading role in a television series in playing two very different twins, one of whom embarks on a journey for revenge. Despite poor reviews, Resurrection was a critical success and gained a following, and one review lauded Uhm for "the kind of acting from Song Kang-ho and Choi Min-sik," not from a young little-known actor who had previously appeared in a few projects in supporting roles. His growing fanbase referred to him as "the UhmForce" (derived from Star Wars), and he was given an Excellence Award from the 2005 KBS Drama Awards as well as a Best TV Actor nomination from the 2006 Baeksang Arts Awards.

Han Ji-min, the Resurrection leading lady, was cast in Wolf in 2006, but production was suspended after only three episodes were broadcast. In which he played the manager of a singer, the same woman his long-lost brother also falls in love with, Uhm went on to Stranger Than Paradise. He appeared in Kim Tae-yong's critically acclaimed film Family Ties as a tumultuous but charming man who appears at his sister's house with a live-in partner 20 years his senior. Uhm received Best New Actor at the Chunsa Film Art Awards for this role.

In 2007, Uhm, reunited with Resurrection's director Park Chan-hong and writer Kim Ji-woo in The Devil, Park and Kim's second in Park and Kim's noir vengeance trilogy that explores the tensions between good and evil, as well as sin and punishment. When trying to atone for his history, he put on another memorable lead role as a detective hunting down a serial killer. In December's romance My Love, in which his protagonist is a Free Hugs activist who returns to Korea after six years in the hopes of finding his ex-girlfriend, Uhm also appeared in the hopes of finding his ex-girlfriend.

He was also known as "Uhm Jung-hwa's kid brother" until recently, but he continued to develop a diverse filmography in 2008. Uhm served as the tough coach of the National Women's Handball Team in Yim Soon-rye's Forever the Moment (and received a Best Supporting Actor award from the Blue Dragon Film Awards). He played a newly married Korean soldier who was conscripted during the Vietnam War in Sunny Lee Joon-ik. In the aftermath of the Iri Station Explosion, he played a taxi driver taking care of his physically impaired sister in Iri.

In 2009, Uhm was cast as a celebrity manager feared by an unknown man and pushed to the limits in Handphone. This was followed by the black comedy Chaw, in which his protagonist is a cop fighting with a mutant boar. Uhm appeared in the popular period drama Queen Seondeok, for which he received a Top Excellence Award at the 2009 MBC Drama Awards.

Uhm starred in the 8th most commercially lucrative Korean film of 2010, and in it, his ex-girlfriend is being pursued by his client. Although working in Dr. Judith, she was involved in Dr. Champ, after his character's ice hockey career was ended by injuries, he became a cranky sports medicine doctor reminiscent of Gregory House.

Uhm was one of the original cast of 2 Days & 1 Night, a popular variety-reality show that accomptains small towns and their people in 2011. Viewers discovered the authentic, dorky person behind Uhm's vivacious screen persona through it.

In the meantime, he continued with his acting jobs. In S.I.U., he appeared opposite 2 Days & 1 Night as two detectives who join forces against unfairness in their ranks.

In 2012, Uhm appeared as one half of a quirky terminally ill couple in Never Ending Story and an architect designing his first love's house in Architecture 101 (the former was a box-office smash at the time as the top-grossing Korean melodrama of all time).

Man from the Equator, a revenge-themed drama, has returned to television. Uhm received an Excellence Award from the 2012 KBS Drama Awards, as well as a Best TV Actor nomination from the 2013 Baeksang Arts Awards, for his role as a blind man.

In 2013, he appeared in Joo Won's spy comedy series 7th Grade Civil Servant. In The Blade and Petal, a time drama set in Goguryeo, Uhm was then reunited with Kim Yong-soo, a Man from the Equator director. He portrayed Yeon Gaesomun's fictional illegitimate son who has a forbidden liaison with the princess, whose father, the king, was killed by Yeon in a coup.

In Park's first Directorial debut Top Star, veteran actor Park Joong-hoon cast Uhm in the lead role. He was a manager who aspires to be a comedian.

Uhm and other regulars Lee Soo-geun, Sung Si-kyung, and Yoo Hae-jin all arrived in the hood later this year.

Can We Fall in Love, Again?, an early 2014 film director who falls in love with a divorcee.

Righteous Love from tvN, which his character's marriage is put into question after his wife's affair, was followed later this year, so a marine researcher sets out to prove that her latest love is "invalid."

In January 2015, Uhm and his daughter Ji-on premiered in The Return of Superman, a reality show in which male celebrities take care of their young children for 48 hours. In October 2015, he left the program.

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