Lee Bo-young

Lee Bo-young is one of those actresses who makes you forget you're watching someone perform — she just pulls you straight into the moment. I first paid attention to her in I Can Hear Your Voice back in 2013, and that mix of warmth and quiet intensity she brought to the role was something else. Then Mother (2018) happened and honestly, that performance should be in a museum somewhere. She has this rare ability to carry enormous emotional weight without ever going melodramatic, which in Korean drama terms is genuinely hard to pull off. Mine (2021) showed she could do cold and calculating just as convincingly as she does vulnerable. Gallup Korea naming her Television Actor of the Year in 2013 felt obvious — you could see it coming from the first episode she was in.

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Name (English)

Lee Bo-young

Name (Japanese)

イ・ボヨン

Reading

い・ぼよん

Born

January 12, 1979 (age 47)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

film actor / actor / model

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

University

Seoul Women's University

• Official sitehttp://www.jwide.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=21&wr_id=4
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/leeboyounglafe_th/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Bo-young
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%A8%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q491807

Tags

• film actor
• actor
• model

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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