Cho Yeo-jeong

I'll be honest — before Parasite, I'd somehow missed Cho Yeo-jeong's entire career, and that film made me feel the gap acutely. She plays the Moon-gwang character with this unsettling, almost operatic intensity, and the moment her performance shifts gears in the basement is one of the most electrifying things I've seen in years. What strikes me is how she holds her own in a film absolutely stacked with talent — Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik — and still carves out a space that's entirely hers. She graduated from Dongguk University and built a steady career in Korean film and theater before landing a role that ended up winning Best Picture at the Oscars, the first non-English film ever to do so. That's a career arc worth envying. I genuinely want to go back and excavate her earlier work now.

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Name (English)

Cho Yeo-jeong

Name (Japanese)

チョ・ヨジョン

Reading

ちょ・よじょん

Born

February 10, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Height

163 cm

Occupation

actor / film actor / advertising model / stage actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rooster

University

Dongguk University

Awards & achievements

• Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Actress

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cho%20Yeo-jeong
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A8%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q626347

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• advertising model

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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