Jung Hye-young

Jung Hye-young is one of those quietly formidable Korean actresses who never needs to shout to command attention. She started on stage back in 1992 — trained at Seoul Arts College, cutting her teeth in theater before making her official television debut through SBS the following year — and that theatrical foundation gives her work a grounded, lived-in quality you don't always get from actors who jump straight to screens. Being under YG Entertainment is a bit of an unusual home for a stage-rooted drama actress, which somehow feels fitting for someone who's always struck me as a bit of an outlier. She has that rare ability to make supporting roles feel essential, and when she gets space to lead, she fills it completely.

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Name (English)

Jung Hye-young

Name (Japanese)

チョン・ヘヨン

Reading

ちょん・へよん

Born

December 14, 1973 (age 52)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / stage actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

High school

Junghwa High School

Awards & achievements

• Ilga Award

• Official sitehttp://www.ygfamily.com/artist/About.asp?ATYPE=1&ARTIDX=23
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hydrangea_garden/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jung%20Hye-young
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%A8%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q491329

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.