Choi Cheol-ho

What strikes me about Choi Cheol-ho is how comfortably he wears a crown on screen. He's played King Seonjo in The Immortal Lee Soon-shin and King Gyeongjong in Empress Cheonchu, and that kind of casting tells me producers trust him with gravity and authority. Then he turned around and broke through with the 2009 hit Queen of Housewives, a much lighter register. I respect actors who can swing between sageuk dignity and contemporary comedy without losing themselves. His literature degree from Sungkyul University fits the image too. He's the sort of reliable Korean character actor whose face you recognize long before you recall the name.

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Name (English)

Choi Cheol-ho

Name (Japanese)

チェ・チョルホ

Reading

ちぇ・ちょるほ

Born

March 2, 1970 (age 56)

Origin

South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / stage actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

University

Sungkyunkwan University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi%20Cheol-ho
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q485181

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.