Jang Hye-jin

Jang Hye-jin is one of those actors who makes you forget you're watching a performance, and her role as Kim Chung-sook, the Kim family mother who ends up as the rich household's housekeeper in Bong Joon-ho's Parasite, is a perfect example. She brought a blunt, lived-in physicality to a character that could have easily been a two-dimensional plot device, and instead made her feel tough and human at the same time. Trained at the Korea National University of Arts and with a deep stage background, she has the kind of technical foundation that doesn't announce itself — it just makes everything feel inevitable. The Busan roots probably add something too; there's a toughness and directness in her screen presence that feels real, not performed. International audiences are still just scratching the surface of her career, and honestly that's exciting.

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Name (English)

Jang Hye-jin

Name (Japanese)

チャン・ヘジン

Reading

ちゃん・へじん

Born

September 5, 1975 (age 51)

Origin

Busan, South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / stage actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

University

Korea National University of Arts

• Official sitehttp://iok.co.kr/jang-hye-jin/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang%20Hye-jin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%B8%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55733858

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• stage actor

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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