
Name: Ha Ji Won
Born: 28 June 1979
Birth place: Seoul South Korea
Height: 168cm
Weight: 48kg
Blood type: A
Education: Dankook University
Career
Ha Ji-won started her career playing supporting roles in TV productions, recognizable for her feminine height and her then chubby cheeks.
In 2002, Ha Ji-won had her breakthrough as the lead in the horror film Phone, a film thematically and stylistically similar to a whole spate of horror films coming out of East Asia at the time. Her performance was good enough to win her a best actress nomination at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. This success secured her many more film offers as well as "big star" status.
Since then she has gone on to make films like the American Pie-clone Sex Is Zero and more recently, Reversal of Fortune. She also began an attempt at a recording career in 2002.
Ha Ji-Won has recently starred in the series What Happened in Bali in early 2004, co-starring Jo Insung and So Jisub. At the said project, she played the hard-put tour guide Lee Soojung, who consequently attracted two guys to her own discomfort. Her performance in that 2004 drama won her a Baek-Sang Best Actress Award.
Filmography
- 2007 Miracle on 1st Street (aka 1Beonga-ui gijeok )
- 2007 Fool
- 2005 Duelist
- 2005 Daddy Long-legs
- 2004 Love So Divine (신부수업)
- 2004 100 Days With Mr. Arrogant (aka Naesarang ssagaji)
- 2003 Reversal of Fortune (aka Yeokjeone sanda)
- 2002 Sex Is Zero
- 2002 Phone
- 2000 Truth Game
- 2000 Ditto
- 2000 Nightmare (aka Gawi)
Drama
- 2006 Hwang Jin-i (KBS)
- 2004 What Happened in Bali (SBS)
- 2003 Damo (MBC)
- Dragons Tears (KBS)
- Love thats bigger than Love (MBC)
- Hak Gyo 2 (KBS)
- 2000 Secret (SBS)
- Life is Beautiful (KBS)
Awards
- 2006 KBS Drama Best Actress Award (Hwang Jin-i)
- 2006 KBS Best Couple Award (with Jang Geun Suk)
- 2004 Baek Sang Best Actress Award
- 2000 Blue Dragon Best Supporting Actress Award
- 2000 Pusan Film Critics Assn. Awards Best New Actress (Truth or Dare)
See also
- List of Korea-related topics
- Contemporary culture of South Korea