Lee Sun-kyun

Biography

Lee Sun-kyun (March 2, 1975 – December 27, 2023) was a South Korean actor. He was best known for his roles in the films, Helpless (2012), romantic comedy All About My Wife (2012), and crime/black comedy A Hard Day (2014). He was also known for his role in the Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning black comedy film Parasite for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award along with his castmates. He received several other awards including nomination for an International Emmy Award. After beginning his career in musical theatre, for many years Lee was relegated to minor and supporting roles onscreen, only getting to play lead characters in one-act dramas on KBS Drama City and MBC Best Theater. In one such Best Theater project, he worked with TV director Lee Yoon-jung on Taereung National Village (2005), which led to him being cast in her later series Coffee Prince in 2007. Coffee Prince, along with medical drama White Tower brought Lee mainstream popularity, which he followed with Pasta (2010), Golden Time (2012) and My Mister (2018). Meanwhile, on the big screen, he received a Best Actor award from the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival for his role in Paju (2009), followed by critical acclaim for mystery thriller Helpless (2012), romantic comedy All About My Wife (2012), and crime/black comedy A Hard Day (2014). Lee also continues to collaborate with auteur Hong Sang-soo, and his arthouse films with Hong include Night and Day (2008), Oki's Movie (2010), and Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013). In 2019, he starred in Bong Joon-ho's Oscar-winning black comedy film Parasite.

Most Known For

Running Man

You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook

as Self

Parasite

as Park Dong-ik

The Oscars

as Self

Movie Room

as Self

Let's Eat Dinner Together

as Self

My Mister

as Park Dong-hoon

Dr. Brain

as Koh Se-won

Baeksang Arts Awards

as Self

Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village

as Self

Project Silence

as Cha Jeong-won

Behind the White Tower

as Choi Do-young

Payback: Money and Power

as Eun Yong

On Air

as Self

Miss Korea

as Kim Hyung-joon

Coffee Prince

as Choi Han-sung

Diary of a Prosecutor

as Lee Sun-Woong

Pasta

as Choi Hyun-wook

Triple

as Jo Hae-yoon

My Wife's Having an Affair This Week

as Do Hyun-Woo