Soo Ae

Soo Ae is an actress I keep returning to because she trusts quiet over noise. After winning the Blue Dragon Best New Actress award in 2004, she built a body of work across Sunny, Midnight FM, and The Flu that refuses to repeat itself. What I admire is the tension she holds between delicacy and steel: she can be tender in one frame and fiercely resolute in the next. Performers who graduate from television into leading film roles tend to have unusual range, and she has it. I value actors who burn slowly inside a character rather than chase headlines, and Soo Ae is exactly that.

Name (English)

Soo Ae

Name (Japanese)

スエ

Reading

すえ

Born

September 16, 1979 (age 46)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

Origin

South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor

University

Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Awards & achievements

• 2004 Blue Dragon Film Award for Best New Actress

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soo%20Ae
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A8
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q491071

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-23

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