ACTRESS: Kim Tae Hee

Kim Tae Hee

Kim has an older sister and a younger brother. Her brother Lee Wan is also an actor and is making himself known through a series of dramas, including Swallow the Sun. Lee Wan worked with her on the drama series Stairway to Heaven, where he played her young character's young older brother. She graduated from Seoul National University with a major in Fashion Design. In middle school she had an average of ‘100' for all subjects throughout her three years in middle school. Kim began her career in entertainment as a model and in television commercials. She rose to stardom via her portrayal of Han Yoori, the evil stepsister in the popular SBS TV series Stairway to Heaven.[2][3] Her other TV projects include the supernatural KBS series Forbidden Love and the SBS campus romance Love Story in Harvard. Both series were successful. For her performance in Forbidden Love, she was honored with the Best Female Newcomer award. Kim then turned to film, starring in The Restless with Jung Woo-sung and the romantic comedy Venus and Mars with Sol Kyung-gu. In 2009, she returned to drama in the espionage action thriller Iris with Lee Byung-hun. It was one of the most expensive dramas ever produced and was a critical and commercial success with an average rating of 30%.[4][5] It was the top rated program every week after it’s debut. She also starred in the film Grand Prix opposite Yang Dong-geun where she portrays a horse jockey who dreams of winning the Grand Prix championship. After the success of Iris, she played the lead in the MBC romantic comedy My Princess alongside Song Seung-heon. My Princess began airing on January 5, 2011. Her character was Lee Seol, an ordinary college student who discovers that she is a princess. She will also star in her first Japanese drama Boku to Star no 99 Nichi with Japanese actor Nishijima Hidetoshi. It will be a light romantic comedy, with Kim Tae Hee playing the role of ‘Han Yuna‘, a big South Korean star. One day she happens to run into an ordinary, and pretty boring, 40-year-old man called ‘Namiki Kouhei‘ (Nishijima), who somehow makes her fall head over heels in love with him. She is known as Korea's ideal woman for her well educated background and her natural beauty .