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Южнокорейская актриса (род. 1975)
South Korean actress (born 1975)
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
Чхве Чжи Ву (настоящее имя Чхве Ми Хян, родилась 11 июня 1975 года) – южнокорейская актриса. Считается одной из самых красивых женщин Южной Кореи и получила признание критиков за работы в различных мелодрамах, в частности, в сериалах «Прекрасные дни» (2001), «Зимняя соната» (2002), «Лестница в небо» (2003), «Воздушный город» (2007), «Любовница звезды» (2008), «Подозрительная домохозяйка» (2013) и «Искушение» (2014), а также в романтической комедии «Двадцать снова» (2015) и «Женщина с чемоданом» (2016).
South Korean actress (born 1975)
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
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South Korean actress (born 1975)
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
**1994–1998: Начало**
South Korean actress (born 1975)
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
Чхве Ми Хян была впервые замечена, когда выиграла прослушивание, организованное MBC в 1994 году, и дебютировала в драматическом сериале «Война и любовь» в 1995 году. Впоследствии она взяла сценический псевдоним Чхве Чжи Ву. В 1996 году она получила свою первую главную роль в фильме «Врата судьбы», но из-за недостатка актерского мастерства была заменена во время съемок. В последующие два года Чхве продолжала сниматься в теледрамах и фильмах, включая «Дыру» (оригинальная версия голливудского триллера «Тишина»), а также в романтических комедиях «Первый поцелуй» с Аном Чжевуком и «Романтический президент» с Аном Сун Ки. Ее роли на телевидении в образах трагических героинь с чистым и невинным образом – особенно в сериалах «Правда» с Рю Си Воном и «Прекрасные дни» с Ли Бён Хном – способствовали росту ее популярности. В 2002 году она воссоединилась на экране с Пэ Ён Чжуном (ранее у нее была эпизодическая роль в его драме 1996 года «Первая любовь») и получила свою самую известную и культовую роль. Под руководством Юн Сок Хо, как вторая часть его «сезонных драм», «Зимняя соната» стала феноменальным хитом по всей Азии и считается одним из инициаторов корейской волны. В результате Чхве получила широкое признание в Азии, особенно огромную популярность в Японии, где она получила прозвище Ji woo Hime («Принцесса Джи Ву»). В 2009 году она и Пэ вновь озвучили своих персонажей для аниме «Зимняя соната». Она продолжает оставаться прибыльной звездой и брендом в Японии, получая высокие гонорары за лицензирование и трансляцию своих драм, а также распродавая концерты и товары (tvN's E News составил список лучших звезд Hallyu в Японии на основе их приблизительного валового дохода за первое полугодие 2011 года, и Чхве заняла пятое место с доходом около 2 миллионов долларов). После успеха мелодрамы 2003 года «Лестница в небо» с Квон Санг Ву, Чхве снова попыталась пробиться в кино. Она сыграла героиню, страдающую неизлечимой болезнью, в фильме «Теперь и навсегда», и более откровенный персонаж в секс-комедии «У всех есть секреты» (оригинальная версия ирландского фильма «Об Адаме»). Оба фильма были плохо приняты критиками и зрителями в Южной Корее, но имели успех в японском прокате. Затем Чхве несколько лет провела за границей, снимаясь в китайской драме «101-е предложение» с Сунь Син и в японской драме «Рондо» с Ютакой Такеноучи. В 2007 году она вернулась на корейское телевидение в сериале «Воздушный город» вместе с Ли Чжун Дже, где сыграла главного операционного директора аэропорта Инчхон.
South Korean actress (born 1975)
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
**2009–2012: Прорыв**
South Korean actress (born 1975)
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
В 2009 году она снялась в драме «Любовница звезды» вместе с Ю Чжи Тэ, сыграв топ-актрису, влюбляющуюся в обычного мужчину. Чхве получала за эпизод самую высокую зарплату среди корейских актрис на тот момент (ее рекорд позже побила Ко Хён Чжун за драму 2010 года «Даэмуль»). В том же году она основала собственное агентство по управлению, C,JW Company, с братом в качестве генерального директора. Она также присоединилась к актерскому составу полуимпровизированного мокьюментари «Актрисы», возможно, ее самой значимой работе в кино. Во время пресс-конференции, посвященной сериалу 2011 года «Не могу проиграть» с Юн Сан Хёном в главной роли, где пара адвокатов столкнулась с собственным бракоразводным процессом, ее спросили, беспокоит ли ее потеря чистого и невинного имиджа. Чхве ответила: «У меня был один и тот же образ в течение 15 лет. Не пора ли мне вырваться? Я была королевой мелодрамы, а теперь хочу титул королевы романтической комедии». Она добавила, что приобрела больше поклонников после того, как показала свою веселую и непринужденную сторону в качестве гостя в реалити-шоу «2 Дня и 1 Ночь». В 2012 году Чхве была выбрана на главную роль в китайской драме «Городские любовники», где она сыграла генерального директора компании по организации мероприятий напротив Цин Хао, недавно принятого бизнесмена в ее фирме. Позже в том же году она стала ведущей программы «Delicious Korea» Чхве Чжи Ву на кабельном канале O'live TV вместе с дизайнером моды Чжун Кухо. Шоу, состоящее из пяти эпизодов, которое выходило в эфир с 23 ноября по 21 декабря 2012 года, было направлено на продвижение корейской кухни и культуры в мире, и два ведущих путешествовали по Южной Корее, знакомя зрителей с малоизвестными региональными блюдами. Затем она возглавила ремейк 2013 года популярной японской драмы 2011 года «Kaseifu no Mita». В «Подозрительной домохозяйке» Чхве сыграла главную героиню – холодную и сдержанную, но удивительно компетентную домохозяйку, которая устраивается на работу к недавно овдовевшему отцу и его четырем детям. Несмотря на трудности, связанные с невозможностью реагировать на своих партнеров по съемкам, Чхве сказала, что выбрала эту роль, потому что «была очарована тем, как героиня воздерживается от проявления своих эмоций».
South Korean actress (born 1975)
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
**2014–настоящее время: Возрождение карьеры**
South Korean actress (born 1975)
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
В феврале 2014 года Чхве подписала контракт с агентством талантов YG Entertainment. Затем она воссоединилась с Квон Санг Ву в сериале «Искушение», где сыграла богатую женщину, делающую опасное предложение женатому мужчине. В 2015 году Чхве присоединилась к четвертому сезону тревел-реалити-шоу «Дедушки на колесах», где она и Ли Со Джин путешествовали автостопом по Греции с ветеранами-актерами Ли Сун Дже, Шин Гу, Пак Кын Хёном и Пэк Иль Собом. За этим последовал кабельный сериал «Двадцать снова», где она получила признание критиков за роль застенчивой 38-летней домохозяйки, решившей впервые в жизни испытать студенческую жизнь вместе со своим 20-летним сыном. В 2016 году Чхве вернулась на большой экран спустя семь лет, снявшись в ансамблевом романтическом фильме «Like for Likes». В том же году она снялась в юридической романтической драме «Женщина с чемоданом». В 2017 году Чхве получила главную роль в семейной мелодраме «Самое красивое прощание», ремейке драмы Но Хи Кён «Самое красивое прощание в мире». В 2019 году Чхве сделала камео в роли самой себя в 13-м эпизоде драмы tvN «Аварийная посадка любви».
South Korean actress (born 1975)
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
a South Korean actress born 1975
Choi Ji woo (born Choi Mi hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002), Stairway to Heaven (2003),
Air City (2007), Star's Lover (2008), The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013) and Temptation (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series Twenty Again (2015) and Woman with a Suitcase (2016). Career
1994–1998: Beginnings
Choi Mi hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series War and Love in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film The Gate of Destiny, but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dramas and films, including The Hole (the Original version of Hollywood thriller Hush), as well as the romantic comedies First Kiss with Ahn Jae wook and The Romantic President with Ahn Sung ki. It was her portrayals on TV of tragic heroines with a pure and innocent image—notably in Truth opposite Ryu Si won and Beautiful Days opposite Lee Byung hun—that boosted her rising popularity. In 2002, she reunited onscreen with Bae Yong joon (she previously had a supporting role in his 1996 drama First Love) that she would star in her most famous, iconic role. Directed by Yoon Seok ho as the second installment of his "season dramas," Winter Sonata became a phenomenal hit throughout Asia and has been credited as one of the initiators of the Korean Wave. As a result, Choi gained wide pan Asian recognition, especially a huge following in Japan where she acquired the nickname Ji woo Hime ("Princess Ji woo"). In 2009 she and Bae reprised their roles as voice actors for Winter Sonata Anime. She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing/broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise (tvN's E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was number five with approximately $2 million). After the success of her 2003 melodrama Stairway to Heaven with Kwon Sang woo, Choi again attempted to break into film. She played a terminally ill heroine in Now and Forever, and a more risque character in sex comedy Everybody Has Secrets ("The Original Version of Irish film About Adam). Both films were poorly received by critics and audiences in South Korea, but performed well at the Japanese box office. Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Chinese drama 101st Proposal with Sun Xing, and the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi. She returned to Korean television in 2007 in Air City alongside Lee Jung jae; her role was the Chief Operating Officer of Incheon Airport. 2009–2012: Breakthrough
In 2009, she starred opposite Yoo Ji tae in the drama Star's Lover, playing a top actress who falls in love with an ordinary man. Choi received per episode, the highest salary for a Korean actress at the time (her record was later broken by Go Hyun jung's for the 2010 drama Daemul). That same year, she set up her own management agency called C,JW Company with her brother as CEO. She also joined the ensemble cast of semi improvisational mockumentary Actresses, arguably her most significant film yet. During the press conference for the 2011 series, Can't Lose, co starring Yoon Sang hyun, featuring a lawyer couple facing their own divorce suit, she was asked if she worried about shedding her pure and innocent image. Choi said, "I've had the same image for 15 years. Isn't it time for me to break out? I was a melodrama queen and now I want the title of romantic comedy queen." She added that she had gained more fans after showing her cheerful, easygoing side as a guest on the reality show 2 Days & 1 Night. In 2012, Choi was cast in the Chinese drama City Lovers, in which she portrayed the CEO at an event management company opposite Qin Hao, a newly employed businessman at her firm. Later that year, she became the host of Choi Ji woo's Delicious Korea on food lifestyle cable channel O'live TV alongside fashion designer Jung Kuho. The 5 episode show, which aired from November 23 to December 21, 2012, aimed to promote Korean cuisine and culture to the world, and the two hosts traveled through South Korea and introduced little known regional food to the viewers. She next headlined the 2013 remake of the hit 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita. In The Suspicious Housekeeper, Choi played the titular character, an icy and stoic yet amazingly capable housekeeper who comes to work for a recently widowed father and his four children. Despite the difficulty of not being able to react to her costars, Choi said she chose the role because she "was really charmed by the way the heroine refrains from letting her emotions show." 2014–present: Career resurgence
In February 2014, Choi signed with the talent agency YG Entertainment. She then reunited with previous costar Kwon Sang woo in Temptation; she played a rich woman who makes a dangerous offer to a married man. Choi joined the fourth season of travel reality show Grandpas Over Flowers in 2015, where she and Lee Seo jin backpacked through Greece with veteran actors Lee Soon jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun hyung and Baek Il seob. This was followed by the cable series Twenty Again, where she gained critical acclaim as a shy 38 year old housewife who decides to experience campus college life for the first time alongside her 20 year old son. In 2016, Choi returned to the big screen in seven years, starring in the ensemble cast romance film Like for Likes. The same year, she starred in the legal romance drama Woman with a Suitcase. In 2017, Choi was cast in the family melodrama The Most Beautiful Goodbye, a remake of the drama The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World by Noh Hee kyung. In 2019, Choi made a cameo appearance as herself in episode 13 of the tvN drama, Crash Landing on You''.
Личная жизнь
Чой изучала аэробный танец в женском колледже в Пусане. Позже она поступила на Театральный и кино факультет Университета Ханьян и закончила первый курс, однако из-за напряженного рабочего графика ей пришлось прервать учебу. Чхве вышла замуж за своего непубличного бойфренда, который на 9 лет младше её, 29 марта 2018 года на частной церемонии, сообщив об этом публично лишь за несколько часов до события через рукописное письмо, опубликованное на сайте её фан-клуба. 23 декабря 2019 года Чхве объявила о своей беременности первым ребенком, а 16 мая 2020 года родила дочь.
Choi majored in aerobic dance at Busan Women's College. She later enrolled in Hanyang University's Department of Theater and Film and completed her first year; however she had to withdraw from college studies due to her hectic work schedule. Choi married her non celebrity boyfriend who is 9 years her junior, on March 29, 2018, in a private wedding, only publicly announcing it just hours prior through a handwritten letter released in her fan club website. Choi announced that she was pregnant with her first child on December 23, 2019, and gave birth to a daughter on May 16, 2020.
Телесериал
Год Название Роль Заметки 1995 Война и любовь 1996 MBC Лучший театр – "Любовь, только одна вещь" Первая любовь Кан Сок Хи Три парня и три девушки Камео 1997 Счастье в наших сердцах Сон Кён А 1998 Любовь Ю Джи Ён 1999 Любовь в трех цветах Юн Джи Су Любовь Ми Чжун Эпизоды 3–4 2000 Правда Ли Джа Ён Мистер Дюк Чжан Су Джин 2001 Красивые дни Ким Ён Су 2002 Мы встречаемся сейчас Камео (эпизод 15) Зимняя соната Чон Ю Джин 2003 Лестница в небо Хан Чон Со 2004 Полный дом Сама Камео (эпизод 3) 101-е предложение Ли Шао Жун Китайская драма 2006 Рондо Чхве Юн А Японская драма 2007 Air City Хан До Кён 2008 Звездный любовник Ли Ма Ри 2009 Зимняя соната (аниме) Чон Ю Джин Озвучка 2011 Fuyu no Sakura Подруга Инабы Тацуки Камео (эпизод 2) Can't Lose Ли Ын Чжэ 2013 Подозрительная домохозяйка Пак Бок Нё 2014 Соблазн Ю Сэ Ён 2015 Вторая двадцатая Ха Но Ра 2016 Женщина с чемоданом Ча Гым Чжу 2017 Самое красивое прощание Ён Су 2020 Аварийная посадка любви Сама Камео (эпизоды 13, 15) 2022 Shooting Stars Ын Си У Камео
Year Title Role Notes 1995 War and Love1996 MBC Best Theater – "Love, Just That One Thing"First Love Kang Seok hee Three Guys and Three Girls Cameo appearance 1997 Happiness Is in Our Hearts Seon Kyung ah 1998 Love Yoo Ji young1999 Love in 3 Colors Eun Ji soo Love Story Min jung Episode 3–42000 Truth Lee Ja young Mr. Duke Jang Soo jin 2001 Beautiful Days Kim Yeon soo2002 We Are Dating Now Cameo (episode 15) Winter Sonata Jeong Yoo jin 2003 Stairway to Heaven Han Jung seo 2004 Full House Herself Cameo (episode 3) 101st Proposal Li Shao Rong Chinese drama 2006 Rondo Choi Yoon ah Japanese drama 2007 Air City Han Do kyung 2008 Star's Lover Lee Ma ri 2009 Winter Sonata Anime Jeong Yoo jin Voice 2011Fuyu no Sakura Inaba Tatsuki's Korean girlfriend Cameo (episode 2) Can't Lose Lee Eun jae 2013 The Suspicious Housekeeper Park Bok nyeo 2014 Temptation Yoo Se young 2015 Second 20s Ha No ra 2016 Woman with a Suitcase Cha Geum joo 2017 The Most Beautiful Goodbye Yeon soo 2020 Crash Landing on You Herself Cameo (episode 13, 15)2022Shooting StarsEun Si woo Cameo
Награды и номинации
Год Награда Категория Номинированная работа Результат 1995 Конкурс «Изабелла Аджани Кореи» 1996 KBS Drama Awards Лучшая новая актриса «Первая любовь» 1997 18-я Премия «Голубой дракон» Лучшая новая актриса «Дыра» 1998 34-я Премия Baeksang Arts Лучшая новая актриса (фильм) 21-я Премия «Золотая кинематография» Лучшая новая актриса 1999 14-я Премия «Золотой диск» Golden Video Лучшая актриса «Для твоей души» 20-я Премия «Голубой дракон» Лучшая актриса второго плана «Некуда спрятаться» 2000 37-я Премия «Большой колокол» Лучшая актриса второго плана MBC Drama Awards Премия за выдающиеся достижения, актриса «Мистер Дюк, Правда» 2001 SBS Drama Awards «Прекрасные дни» Топ-10 звезд 2002 Model Line Best Dresser Awards Премия «Лебедь» 38-я Премия Baeksang Arts Самая популярная актриса (ТВ) «Зимняя соната» KBS Drama Awards Главная премия за выдающиеся достижения, актриса Премия за популярность 2003 Andre Kim Best Star Awards Премия за женскую звезду 26-я Премия «Золотая кинематография» Самая популярная актриса «Романтический президент» SBS Drama Awards Премия за выдающиеся достижения, актриса в специальной драме «Райская лестница» Топ-10 звезд 2004 40-я Премия Baeksang Arts Самая популярная актриса (ТВ) 4-я Премия Proud Korean Awards (Федерация журналистов Кореи) Лауреат 2005 41-я Премия Baeksang Arts Специальная премия Hallyu The Motion Pictures Association of Korea 2006 Dior Timeless Beauty Awards Лауреат 2009 International Cultural Industry Exchange Foundation Awards Лауреат 4-й Seoul International Drama Awards Зачислена в Зал славы 36-я Премия Tourism Day Президентская награда SBS Drama Awards Премия за выдающиеся достижения, актриса в специальной драме «Влюбленный звездочет» 2010 World Tourism Cities Forum Премия за популярность 2012 7-я Asia Model Awards Asia Star Award Seoul International Social Work Conference Премия за социальное благосостояние 2013 SBS Drama Awards Главная премия за выдающиеся достижения, актриса в специальной драме «Подозрительная домохозяйка» 2014 7-я Korea Drama Awards Главная премия за выдающиеся достижения, актриса SBS Drama Awards Главная премия за выдающиеся достижения, актриса в специальной драме «Искушение» 2016 MBC Drama Awards Главная премия за выдающиеся достижения, актриса в специальной драме «Женщина с чемоданом» tvN10 Awards Лучшая актриса Second 20s
Year Award Category Nominated work Result 1995 Korea's Isabelle Adjani Contest 1996 KBS Drama AwardsBest New Actress First Love 1997 18th Blue Dragon Film AwardsBest New ActressThe Hole 1998 34th Baeksang Arts AwardsBest New Actress (Film) 21st Golden Cinematography AwardsBest New Actress 1999 14th Golden Disk Awards Golden Video Best Actress For Your Soul 20th Blue Dragon Film AwardsBest Supporting ActressNowhere to Hide 2000 37th Grand Bell AwardsBest Supporting Actress MBC Drama AwardsExcellence Award, Actress Mr. Duke, Truth 2001SBS Drama AwardsBeautiful Days Top 10 Stars 2002 Model Line Best Dresser Awards Swan Award 38th Baeksang Arts Awards Most Popular Actress (TV) Winter Sonata KBS Drama Awards Top Excellence Award, Actress Popularity Award 2003 Andre Kim Best Star Awards Female Star Award 26th Golden Cinematography Awards Most Popular Actress The Romantic President SBS Drama Awards Excellence Award, Actress in a Drama SpecialStairway to Heaven Top 10 Stars 2004 40th Baeksang Arts Awards Most Popular Actress (TV) 4th Proud Korean Awards (Journalists Federation of Korea) Recipient 2005 41st Baeksang Arts AwardsHallyu Special Award The Motion Pictures Association of Korea 2006 Dior Timeless Beauty Awards Recipient 2009 International Cultural Industry Exchange Foundation Awards Recipient 4th Seoul International Drama Awards Inducted into the Star Hall of Fame 36th Tourism Day Presidential Commendation SBS Drama Awards Excellence Award, Actress in a Drama SpecialStar's Lover 2010 World Tourism Cities Forum Top Popularity Award 2012 7th Asia Model Awards Asia Star Award Seoul International Social Work Conference Social Welfare Award 2013 SBS Drama Awards Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Drama SpecialThe Suspicious Housekeeper 2014 7th Korea Drama Awards Top Excellence Award, Actress SBS Drama Awards Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Drama SpecialTemptation 2016 MBC Drama Awards Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Special Project Drama Woman with a Suitcase tvN10 Awards Best Actress Second 20s