Kim Tae-hee

south korean actress
Kim. In this korean identify, the kin name is Kim Tae-hee ( korean : 김태희 ; born 29 March 1980 ) is a south korean actress. Considered one of South Korea ‘s most beautiful women, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] she is well known for her roles in korean drama such as Stairway to Heaven ( 2003 ), Love Story in Harvard ( 2004 ), Iris ( 2009 ), My Princess ( 2011 ), Yong-pal ( 2015 ) and Hi Bye, Mama! ( 2020 ). Kim Tae-hee is referred to as one of “ The Troika ” along with Song Hye-kyo and Jun Ji-hyun, jointly known by the acronym “ Tae-Hye-Ji ”. [ 5 ]

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early life and department of education [edit ]

Kim Tae-hee was born on 29 March 1980 in Ulsan, South Korea. Her father is Kim Yoo Moon, who established, and is president of, Hankook Union Transportation Company in 1984. She is frequently involved in assorted charities to help out underserved youths and break families in the Ulsan area. [ 2 ] She has an older sister, Kim Hee-won, and a younger brother, Lee Wan ; the latter is besides an actor and appeared in her television receiver series Stairway to Heaven. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] She attended Samshin Elementary School, Daehyun Middle School ( 대현중학교 ) [ 8 ] and then enrolled at Ulsan Girls ‘ high School. [ 9 ] In 1999, Kim moved to Seoul to attend college at the esteemed Seoul National University, where she became the president of the SNU Women ‘s Ski Club. In 2005, she graduated from SNU with a bachelor ‘s degree in fashion design. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ]

career [edit ]

2001–2002 : Beginnings [edit ]

In 2000, an advertise executive saw Kim riding the metro, and offered her a mold job. Kim appeared in television receiver commercials and print ads, before making her acting debut with a small character in the 2001 melodrama Last Present. [ 10 ] In 2002, she starred in the short film Living in New Town and the situation comedy Let’s Go, followed by Screen and A Problem at My Younger Brother’s House in 2003 .

2003–2006 : Rising popularity and movie introduction [edit ]

Kim rose to stardom in 2003 via her depicting of the evil half sister in the popular SBS television receiver series Stairway to Heaven. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Starting 2004, Kim was cast in leading roles in her future projects, including the supernatural KBS series Forbidden Love and the SBS campus romanticism Love Story in Harvard. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The latter trace solid viewership ratings countrywide throughout its footrace with a flower spectator rat of 20 percentage and won Kim the Most Popular Actress award in television receiver class at the Baeksang Arts Awards. [ 18 ] Love Story in Harvard was besides reportedly well-received by japanese viewers and contributed to Kim ‘s popularity in the area. Riding the bad success of Stairway to Heaven and Love Story in Harvard, Kim became one of the most sought faces in the television receiver commercial diligence. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] She was picked by Korea Broadcast Advertising Corporation as the top advertise model of the class in 2008, earning her title of “ CF Queen ”. [ 22 ] however, Kim expressed her desire to be valued properly as an actor, preferring to succeed based on her acting skills rather than her effigy. Kim then turned to film, starring in action illusion epic The Restless ( 2006 ), [ 23 ] [ 24 ] and the romantic comedy Venus and Mars ( 2007 ). [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] however, both were unsuccessful at the box office. [ 28 ]

2009–2014 : Iris and rising overseas popularity [edit ]

In October 2013 back on the small screen in 2009, Kim played an NIS profiler in the descry action thriller Iris. [ 29 ] It was one of the most expensive korean play ever produced and was a critical and commercial success with an average viewership rat of 30 %. [ 30 ] Kim shed tears at the KBS Drama Awards when she won an Excellence Award in a Mid-length Drama ; which was her first acting award, excluding newcomer and popularity awards. [ 31 ] Kim left her then-agency Namoo Actors [ 32 ] in January 2010 to join Lua Entertainment, which was founded by her brother-in-law. That year, she besides played a cavalry jockey who dreams of winning the championship in the sports movie Grand Prix. [ 33 ] After the success of Iris, she again drew positive reviews in the amatory comedy serial My Princess ( 2011 ) ; Kim played an ordinary college scholar who discovers that she is korean royalty. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Later that class, she starred in her inaugural japanese television drama Boku to Star no 99 Nichi, where her character is a korean Wave star who meets an ordinary japanese bodyguard and he somehow makes her fall forefront over heels in love with him. [ 36 ] The Fuji TV drama, which aired in Japan from October to December in 2011, raked in 9 to 10 percentage of viewers ‘ ratings on average, launching Kim into a family appoint in Japan. [ 37 ] Kim later encountered backfire from some japanese netizens for allegedly promoting South Korea ‘s title in the Liancourt Rocks dispute during her 2005 stumble to Switzerland as grace ambassadors. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] [ 40 ] In 2013, Kim starred in her first historical drama Jang Ok-jung, Living by Love as the ill-famed imperial concubine Hui-bin Jang. [ 41 ] This was followed by another period character, as the wife of celebrated Chinese calligrapher Wang Xizhi in the chinese television play Saint Wang Xizhi. [ 42 ] [ 43 ]

2015–present : career revival [edit ]

Kim returned to Korean television receiver in 2015, playing an heiress who recovers from a coma with the avail of a doctor-for-hire, the titular Yong-pal. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] The testify garnered potent ratings and Kim won a exceed excellence Acting award from the Korea Drama Awards. [ 46 ]

personal life [edit ]

In September 2012, Kim started dating south korean singer-actor Rain. They married on 19 January 2017. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] [ 51 ] On 23 May 2017, Kim ‘s agency, Lua Entertainment, announced that Kim was meaning with their beginning child. [ 52 ] She gave birth to a daughter on 25 October 2017. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] [ 55 ] In February 2019, Kim announced she was pregnant again. [ 56 ] On 19 September 2019, she gave birth to the pair ‘s second gear daughter. Kim is a practicing Catholic. [ 57 ] She was one of 30 catholic celebrities who appeared in the 2014 music video recording for the digital single “ Koinonia ” to commemorate Pope Francis ‘s sojourn to South Korea, the first meter in 19 years that an incumbent pope visited Asia. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] [ 60 ]

Filmography [edit ]

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music video appearances [edit ]

Year

Song

Artist

2002

“Letter”

g.o.d

2003

“Only”

The Jun

2004

“Don’t Go Away”

Park Yong-ha

2014

“Koinonia”[61]

Korean Catholic celebrities

2021

“I Like You”[62]
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