south korean actor
Yoo. In this korean name, the family name is Yoo Seung-ho ( korean : 유승호 ; Hanja : 俞承豪 ; born August 17, 1993 ) is a south korean actor who rose to fame as a child actor in the film The Way Home ( 2002 ). Since then, he has starred in many television series and movie films as a child and adolescent. After his biennial mandatary military service, he starred in the legal drama Remember ( 2015 ), historic films Joseon Magician ( 2015 ) and Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River ( 2016 ) a well as historical drama The Emperor: Owner of the Mask ( 2017 ), romance drollery series I’m Not a Robot ( 2017 ), and SBS ‘s high school drama My Strange Hero ( 2018 ).

early animation and department of education [edit ]

Born and raised in Incheon, Yoo is the younger of two siblings, he belated claimed that his class had been hapless. [ 3 ] Yoo graduated from Baekshin High School in February 2012. He decided not to pursue a college degree in order to concentrate on his acting career. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]

career [edit ]

1999–2009 : Beginnings as a child actor [edit ]

Yoo made his entertainment debut in a cellular telephone commercial in 1999 after Yoo ‘s mother sent in a photograph of her son to an ad agency. [ 3 ] In 2000 Yoo began his career as a child actor, first appearing in the television drama Daddy Fish. [ 7 ] He rose to stardom in his beginning film The Way Home, playing a bratty city boy who learns to appreciate state life when he ‘s forced to spend the summer with his mute grandma. [ 8 ] The low-budget film was a surprise box office hit in 2002, drawing more than 4 million admissions. [ 9 ] He was then dearly labeled as “ Nation ‘s Little Brother “. [ 10 ] Thereafter, Yoo besides starred in animal movie Hearty Paws ( 2006 ) about a son and his beloved dog, and Unforgettable ( 2008 ) about school children from a remote control island who go on a field trip to a sugarcoat factory in Seoul during the 1970s. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] He continued acting in television receiver, appearing in Magic Warriors Mir & Gaon ( 2005 ), an venture series for children. Yoo further built his filmography, playing younger counterparts of male protagonists in television drama, including general Yi Sun-sin in Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin ( 2004 ), King Seongjong in The King and I ( 2007 ), and Gwanggaeto the Great in The Legend ( 2007 ). [ 14 ] In 2009, Yoo starred in the carry through movie City of Fathers and thriller film 4th Period Mystery. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] He besides played Kim Chunchu in the period epic Queen Seondeok. [ 17 ]

2010–2014 : adolescent roles [edit ]

In his teens, Yoo was cast in one of the major roles in Master of Study ( 2010 ), a korean screen adaptation of japanese manga Dragon Zakura. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] He then played a more suppurate role in Flames of Desire, as the second-generation son of a affluent chaebol syndicate who is uninterested in the battles of succession among his relatives and becomes a marital homo at 21. [ 21 ] Later that year, Yoo sang a pas de deux with singer/actress IU titled “ Believe in Love ” for the jacob’s ladder program Love Request. The song ‘s lyrics was based on a diary that Yoo had written while seeing orphans of war in the slums of Sri Lanka. [ 22 ] In 2011, Yoo trained in play and martial arts in his role as an assassin in Warrior Baek Dong-soo, an action -period drama based on the manhwa by Lee Jae-heon. [ 23 ] He besides voiced Greenie, Leafie ‘s assume son, on Leafie, a Hen into the Wild, which was adapted from a bestselling children ‘s novel by Hwang Sun-mi. [ 24 ] He then co-starred with Kim Ha-neul in the thriller Blind. [ 25 ] In 2012, Yoo was cast in his first role as a leading man in Operation Proposal, a korean remake of the japanese drama Proposal Daisakusen. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] This was followed by a supporting function as the Jade Emperor, rule of the heavens, in the fantasy-period play Arang and the Magistrate. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Afterwards, he starred in the melodrama Missing You, playing a cold man who hides a vengeance-filled heart behind his apparently gentle smile. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ]

Known in the compress as “ Little So Ji-sub “ for his resemblance to the said actor, in 2013 Yoo starred in the music video for So ‘s single “ Eraser ” together with Park Shin-hye. This was his second time promoting So ‘s musical endeavors, after “ lone biography ” in 2008. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Following that, Yoo ‘s first gear photograph script titled Travel Letter, Spring Snow, And… was published ; it was the last stick out shot by celebrity photographer Bori before her death on April 9, 2013. [ 35 ]

2015–present : adult roles and rising popularity [edit ]

As his first post-army project, Yoo appeared in the music video for Naul ‘s “ You From the lapp Time ” in 2015. [ 36 ] He was following casting as a stubborn webcomic writer raising a kat in the television receiver adaptation of webtoon Imaginary Cat. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] Yoo followed this by starring in the joseon-era romance movie The Magician directed by Kim Dae-seung, in which he plays a circus magician who falls in love with a princess. [ 39 ] Yoo was then cast in SBS ‘s legal thriller series Remember as a lawyer with hyperthymesia who defends his father on end row. [ 40 ] In 2016, Yoo starred in the historic comedy film Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River as the titular fictional character Kim Seon-dal. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] In 2017, he starred in MBC ‘s historic melodrama The Emperor: Owner of the Mask [ 43 ] [ 44 ] and romantic-comedy I’m Not a Robot. [ 45 ] In 2018, he was cast in SBS ‘s high educate drama My Strange Hero. [ 46 ] In 2020, Yoo starred in the mystery thriller Memorist as a detective in the patrol impel with the baron to read people ‘s memories. [ 47 ] Yoo Seung-ho was scheduled to appear in film ‘Firefighter ‘, but when the filming was postponed in the aftermath of a novel coronavirus infection ( COVID-19 ), Yoo Seung-ho got off the movie undertaking due to schedule problems. [ 48 ]

personal life [edit ]

Yoo enlisted for his compulsory military service in the army on March 5, 2013, where he reportedly became an teacher training new recruits. [ 49 ] [ 5 ] [ 50 ] [ 51 ] [ 52 ] [ 53 ] He was discharged on December 4, 2014. [ 54 ] [ 55 ]

Filmography [edit ]

film [edit ]

television receiver series [edit ]

television shows [edit ]

Year Title Network Role Notes Ref.
2013 Homo Academicus KBS1 Narrator Documentary narrator [72]

discography [edit ]

Title Year Peak chart positions Sales
(digital) 		Album
KOR
Gaon
[73]
“I Believe in Love” (

사랑을 믿어요

)
( Yoo Seung-ho feat. IU

2010 11
  • KOR: 1,010,437[74]
 Road for Hope.

bibliography [edit ]

Year Title Publisher ISBN Notes Ref.
2013 Travel Letter, Spring Snow, And… Wisdom House ISBN 9788959137268 Photobook [35]

Awards and nominations [edit ]

References [edit ]