Jeon Yeo-been

Jeon Yeo-been is one of those rare actors who makes you forget you're watching someone perform — she just inhabits a character completely and lets you sit with them. She put herself on the map in a serious way with the indie film After My Death back in 2018, picking up the Actress of the Year prize at the Busan International Film Festival, which felt like exactly the right recognition at exactly the right time. From there she kept building a quietly impressive filmography across both film and television, and her 2023 Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Supporting Actress confirmed what attentive viewers already knew: she's the real deal. Born in Gangneung and trained at Dongduk Women's University, she has that indie-drama intensity that never tips into melodrama, which is genuinely hard to pull off consistently.

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Name (English)

Jeon Yeo-been

Name (Japanese)

チョン・ヨビン

Reading

ちょん・よびん

Born

July 26, 1989 (age 37)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

Origin

Gangneung, South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor

University

Dongduk Women's University

Awards & achievements

• 2023 Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Supporting Actress

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jeon.yeobeen/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeon%20Yeo-been
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A8%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27953264

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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