Ahn Nae-sang

Ahn Nae-sang is the kind of actor who makes every scene feel earned — the guy trained on stage, which you can feel even when he's doing something small and quiet on screen. He got his film start in a Bong Joon-ho short back in 1994, which in hindsight reads like a very good early career omen. Since then he's built this impressive body of work as the reliable, deeply human presence in films by some of Korea's best directors — Lee Chang-dong's Oasis and Poetry both benefit enormously from him. He's not flashy, but that's exactly the point; the subtlety is the craft. A Yonsei University guy who clearly took the long, serious theatrical road, and it shows in a career that's quietly essential to Korean cinema's golden run.

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Name (English)

Ahn Nae-sang

Name (Japanese)

アン・ネサン

Reading

あん・ねさん

Born

December 25, 1964 (age 61)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dragon

Origin

Daegu, South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / stage actor

University

Yonsei University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahn%20Nae-sang
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3335107

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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