Ju Ji-hoon

Ju Ji-hoon is one of those rare actors who just keeps leveling up — and I mean that sincerely, not as a cliché. He burst onto the scene with Princess Hours back in 2006 as the cold-but-secretly-sweet Crown Prince, and honestly half of East Asia was in love with him by episode three. Then in 2009 he pleaded guilty to using ecstasy and ketamine and received a suspended six-month prison sentence, which would have ended a lot of careers, but he did his military service, came back humbled, and slowly rebuilt with smarter project choices. Kingdom on Netflix is where international audiences really caught on — his brooding intensity as Crown Prince Lee Chang in a Joseon-era zombie thriller was something nobody expected to work that well. At 187 cm with that bone structure, he makes everything look effortless, but his range has steadily deepened over the years, and I think his best performances are still ahead of him.

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Name (English)

Ju Ji-hoon

Name (Japanese)

チュ・ジフン

Reading

ちゅ・じふん

Born

May 16, 1982 (age 44)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Height

187 cm

Occupation

film actor / actor / model / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dog

University

Kyonggi University

• Official sitehttps://www.ju-jihoon.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/_jujihoon/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ju%20Ji-hoon
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%95%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q494734

Tags

• film actor
• actor
• model

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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