Park Hae-soo

I'll be honest — before Squid Game dropped in 2021 I had no idea who Park Hae-soo was, and then suddenly he was everywhere, and for very good reason. His Cho Sang-woo is one of the most fascinating slow-burn villains I've seen on television in years: a Seoul National University golden boy who quietly unravels under survival pressure, and Park plays every layer of that moral collapse with this chilling restraint that makes you keep rooting for him even as he does unforgivable things. The Emmy nomination for supporting actor felt completely earned — he held his own against an ensemble that had the whole world watching. A stage-trained actor who studied at Dankook University, he brought a theatrical gravity to a role that could have easily been played as a simple bad guy, and instead became the emotional gut-punch of the whole season.

Name (English)

Park Hae-soo

Name (Japanese)

パク・ヘス

Reading

ぱく・へす

Born

November 21, 1981 (age 44)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rooster

Origin

Suwon, South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / stage actor

University

Dankook University

• Official sitehttps://bhent.co.kr/artist/park-hae-soo
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/haesoopark_official/
• Xhttps://x.com/haesoo1121
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park%20Hae-soo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%B9%20(1981%E5%B9%B4%E7%94%9F%E3%81%AE%E4%BF%B3%E5%84%AA)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18732317

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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