Go Ara

Go Ara is one of those rare performers who started as a model and actually made the acting transition stick — and then some. I first noticed her in Reply 1994, where she held her own in an ensemble that had no business being that charming, and she's been quietly building a genuinely varied resume ever since. Hwarang showed she could do sweeping period drama, Black proved she wasn't afraid of dark genre material, and Ms. Hammurabi let her dig into something with real social weight. She doesn't always get the headlines that some of her generation command, but every time I check in on her work she's clearly taking it seriously. Born in Jinju, trained at Chung-Ang University — she did the work, and it shows.

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Name (English)

Go Ara

Name (Japanese)

Ara

Reading

あら

Born

February 11, 1990 (age 36)

Origin

Jinju, South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / model / child actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Horse

High school

Chungshin Girls' High School

University

Chung-Ang University

• Official sitehttp://goara.smtown.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ara_go_0211/
• Xhttps://x.com/floara211
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%20Ara
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q259409

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• model

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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