My Take
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.
Overview
Jeon Yeo-been (Korean: 전여빈; born Jeon Bo-young on July 26, 1989) is a South Korean actress. She rose to prominence with her performance in the independent film After My Death (2018), for which she received the Actress of the Year Award at the 22nd Busan International Film Festival and the Independent Star Award at the 2017 Seoul Independent Film Festival.
1. Profile
- 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 36)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Snake
- Origin
- Gangneung, South Korea
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Dongduk Women's University
Awards & achievements
- 2023 Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.