Kim Hye-ja is an South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

n actress who starred in Bong Joon-ho

Bong Joon-ho

Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.-Biography:He was born in Daegu in 1969 and decided to become a filmmaker while in middle school, perhaps influenced by an artistic family He majored in sociology in Yonsei University in the late 1980s and was a member of the film club...

 film Mother

Mother (2009 film)

Mother is a 2009 South Korean drama film directed by Bong Joon-ho, starring Kim Hye-ja and Won Bin.-Plot:Kim Hye-ja, a veteran Korean actress, plays an unnamed widow living alone with her only son, selling medicinal herbs in a small town in southern South Korea while doing unlicensed acupuncture...

in which she won best actress for the 4th Asian Film Awards.

Career

While she was studying at Ewha Womans University

Ewha Womans University

Ewha Womans University is a private women's university in central Seoul, South Korea. It is one of the city's largest institutions of higher learning and currently the world's largest female educational institute. It is one of the best-known universities in South Korea, and often considered to...

, Kim made her debut at age 29 in Late Autumn which she won best actress in the Manila International Film Festival. She then starred in dramas like What is Love and Princess Hours

Princess Hours

Princess Hours is a 2006 Korean drama starring Yoon Eun Hye, Joo Ji Hoon, Kim Jeong Hoon and Song Ji-hyo. It was based on manhwa Goong by Park So-Hee. It was broadcast from 11 January to 30 March 2006 on MBC.Princess Hours was one of MBC's most popular dramas of 2006, second only to Jumong...

. In 2009, Kim starred in Mother

Mother (2009 film)

Mother is a 2009 South Korean drama film directed by Bong Joon-ho, starring Kim Hye-ja and Won Bin.-Plot:Kim Hye-ja, a veteran Korean actress, plays an unnamed widow living alone with her only son, selling medicinal herbs in a small town in southern South Korea while doing unlicensed acupuncture...

which is about a woman searching for the real killer after her son is accused of murder.

Filmography

• Mother
  Mother (2009 film)
  Mother is a 2009 South Korean drama film directed by Bong Joon-ho, starring Kim Hye-ja and Won Bin.-Plot:Kim Hye-ja, a veteran Korean actress, plays an unnamed widow living alone with her only son, selling medicinal herbs in a small town in southern South Korea while doing unlicensed acupuncture...
  
  (2009)
• Mayonnaise (1999)
• Late Autumn (1981)

TV series

• Red Major General's Autumn (SBS, 2009)
• Mom Has Grown Horns (KBS2, 2008)
• Goong (MBC, 2006)
• Smile of Spring Day (MBC, 2005)
• Since We Met (MBC, 2002)
• Roses and Bean Sprouts (MBC, 1999)
• You and I (MBC, 1997)
• First Love (MBC) (첫사랑) (MBC, 1986)

Awards

• 2010 (4th) Asian Film Awards - Best Actress (Mother)
• 2010 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress ("Mother")

External links

• Kim Hye-ja at Hancinema