Lee Seo-jin

Lee Seo-jin is one of those actors who earns his credibility the slow, steady way — no overnight explosion, just a decade-plus of quietly nailing complex leads in serious period dramas like Damo and Yi San, where his brooding stillness does more heavy lifting than most actors manage with a full monologue. What surprised a lot of people, though, is how effortlessly funny he turned out to be once the variety world got hold of him: his deadpan suffering on Three Meals a Day and Grandpa Over Flowers became appointment viewing, partly because you could tell he genuinely did not want to be there, which made it hilarious. NYU-educated, fluent in multiple registers of performance, and impossible to box into a single lane — I genuinely respect the range.

Name (English)

Lee Seo-jin

Name (Japanese)

イ・ソジン

Reading

い・そじん

Born

January 30, 1971 (age 55)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Boar

Origin

South Korea, United States

Occupation

actor / singer / television actor / film actor / stage actor

University

New York University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Seo-jin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%82%B8%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q494097

Tags

• actor
• singer
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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