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Uhm Tae-woong is a Actor Sud coréen born on 5 april 1974 at Jecheon (Coree du sud)
Uhm Tae-woong (born April 5, 1974) is a South Korean actor. He made his acting debut in 1998, but initially struggled to emerge from under the shadow of his older sister, popular singer-actress Uhm Jung-hwa. After several years of small roles and work in one-act dramas, Uhm began to gain recognition after his villainous turn in the romantic comedy Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang. In 2005, he made his breakthrough in the critically acclaimed Resurrection, followed by another revenge-themed series The Devil in 2007. Since then, he has starred in diverse leading roles on film and television, notably in Forever the Moment (2008), Chaw (2009), Cyrano Agency (2010), Architecture 101 (2012), and Man from the Equator (2012).
Uhm dated actress-model Lee Young-jin from 2007 to 2009.
On the November 4, 2012 episode of 2 Days & 1 Night, Uhm made the surprise announcement that he was engaged to ballerina Yoon Hye-jin, and that they are expecting their first child. The daughter of veteran actor Yoon Il-bong and niece of veteran actor Yoo Dong-geun, Yoon was a principal dancer with the Korea National Ballet before she moved to the Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. They were introduced by Uhm's older sister Uhm Jung-hwa. The couple wed on January 9, 2013 at Conrad Hotel Seoul. Their daughter Uhm Ji-on was born on June 18, 2013.
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Uhm's father, Uhm Jin-ok, was a public school music teacher who died from a motorcycle accident after Uhm had just turned 100 days old. After his father's death, his family (consisting of his mother (Yoo Gyeong-sook), three older sisters, and Uhm as the youngest) faced serious financial problems. His older sister Uhm Jung-hwa entered show business as a pop singer and released her first album in 1993 (earning the label "Madonna of Korea"); she later turned to acting.Uhm dated actress-model Lee Young-jin from 2007 to 2009.
On the November 4, 2012 episode of 2 Days & 1 Night, Uhm made the surprise announcement that he was engaged to ballerina Yoon Hye-jin, and that they are expecting their first child. The daughter of veteran actor Yoon Il-bong and niece of veteran actor Yoo Dong-geun, Yoon was a principal dancer with the Korea National Ballet before she moved to the Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. They were introduced by Uhm's older sister Uhm Jung-hwa. The couple wed on January 9, 2013 at Conrad Hotel Seoul. Their daughter Uhm Ji-on was born on June 18, 2013.
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Top Star (2013)
, 1h54Directed by Park Joong-hoon
Genres Drama
Actors Uhm Tae-woong, So Yi-hyun, Kim Min-joon, Kim Su-ro, Lee Joon-hyuk, Lee Yeong-hoon이영훈
Roles Tae-sik
Rating63%
Tae-sik is the talent manager of top celebrity Won-joon, but he has long wanted to be an actor. He unexpectedly gets his chance when Won-joon becomes involved in a hit and run accident and Tae-sik takes the fall instead by claiming he was the driver. In exchange, Won-joon promises to give Tae-sik a small role in his next film. But Tae-sik's acting career soon takes off after he gets out of jail, and his success and stardom starts to threaten and eclipse Won-joon's. Tae-sik's popularity finally overtakes Won-joon's, but his pure passion for acting turns into greed and ego. As he loses touch with his roots, he neglects the relationships he formed on the way up. Now, in order to maintain his fame, Tae-sik will stop at nothing to stay on top.
Never Ending Story (2012)
, 1h54Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Uhm Tae-woong, Jung Ryeo-won, Park Ki-woong, Yoo Sun, Cha Tae-hyun, Lee Byung-joon
Roles Kang Dong-ju
Rating61%
Oh Song-kyung (Jung Ryeo-won) is a well-organized 28-year-old bank teller. She meticulously has a plan for everything, including getting married through a dating agency. Taekwondo master Kang Dong-joo's (Uhm Tae-woong) biggest pleasure is buying lottery tickets in hopes of one day hitting the jackpot. In reality, however, he's an incompetent young man who barely makes ends meet and mooches off his younger brother (Park Ki-woong). He is forced to register with a dating agency because of pressure from his sister-in-law (Yoo Sun), who wants to kick him out of their house.
Architecture 101 (2012)
, 1h58Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Uhm Tae-woong, Han Ga-in, Lee Je-hoon, Bae Suzy (裴秀智), Yoo Yeon-seok, Jo Jung-suk
Roles Lee Seung-min
Rating72%
Seoul, the present day. Out of the blue, architect Lee Seung-min (Uhm Tae-woong) is approached by Yang Seo-yeon (Han Ga-in), whom he knew at college some 17 years previously, to design a new house for her on the site of her 30-year-old family home on Jeju island. Seung-min reluctantly agrees but can't come up with a design that pleases her. In the end, they decide to renovate and expand the existing house, and he and Seo-yeon spend a considerable amount of time together down in Jeju, to the growing annoyance of his fiancee Eun-chae (Go Joon-hee), with whom he is soon to be married and move to the US. As Seo-yeon cares for her dying father (Lee Seung-ho) and Seung-min learns more about what became of Seo-yeon in the intervening years, he recalls their initial meeting at college in the early 1990s.
S.I.U. (2011)
, 1h51Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Uhm Tae-woong, Joo Won, Jung Jin-young, Lee Tae-im, Kim Jung-tae, Kim Young-jae
Roles Kim Seong-beom
Rating59%
Seong-beom is a foul-mouthed, hot-tempered detective with uncanny animal instincts in the violent crimes section who has never failed to solve a case. While he is on an undercover operation, he hears that a colleague of his has been brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. Seong-beom and the police agency instinctively know there is something behind this murder case. They set up a Special Investigations Unit (S.I.U.), and profiler Ho-ryong, a former FBI agent, is assigned as Seong-beom's partner. As the police dragnet begins to close in, the suspect is always faster than the police. They then receive a suspicious shoot to kill order from high-ranking police officials once the suspect is found. The team must fight against conspiring powers responsible for the crime, all the while dealing with tension and mistrust that begin to build within the police force itself as more information about the case begins to surface that may implicate corrupt detectives within their ranks.
Cyrano Agency (2010)
, 2h1Directed by Kim Hyeon-seok
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Uhm Tae-woong, Lee Min-jung, Choi Daniel, Park Shin-hye, Song Sae-byeok, Park Chul-min
Roles Byeong-hoon
Rating64%
Lovelorn Kim Hyeon-gon (Song Sae-byeok), who has fallen for coffee shop worker Seon-ah (Ryu Hyun-kyung), learns about Cyrano Agency, a small organization set up by theatre actor Lee Byeong-hoon (Uhm Tae-woong) that claims 100% success in making people fall in love. Kim signs on, and the Cyrano team — Byeong-hoon's onetime drama student Min-yeong (Park Shin-hye), plus older Cheol-bin (Park Chul-min) and younger Jae-pil (Jeon Ah-min) — set to work, constructing elaborate scenarios in which Seon-ah is the unwitting target and feeding lines to Hyeon-gon through an earpiece. The operation is a success, but Cyrano Agency needs more clients as its finances are perilous. Their next client is fund manager Lee Sang-yong (Choi Daniel), who has fallen for Kim Hee-joong (Lee Min-jung), a young woman he met at church. Byeong-hoon is not keen on taking the case, as it turns out that Hee-joong is an ex-girlfriend of his. Unwillingly he agrees, and things initially go smoothly between Sang-yong and Hee-joong; but then Byeong-hoon's personal feelings start to get in the way of business.
Chaw (2009)
, 2h2Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Uhm Tae-woong, Jeong Yu-mi, Yoon Je-moon, Jang Hang-sun, Choi Won-young, Park Hyuk-kwon
Roles Kim Sun-kyeong
Rating56%
The quiet town of Sammaeri near Mount Jiri has been crime-free for a decade until now. Bodies of villagers begin turning up, making the village leaders nervous just ahead of an organic food fair expected be a financial windfall. Chun Il-man (Jang Hang-sun), whose granddaughter was one of the victims, is sure that a man-killing boar is behind the crimes. He joins forces with detective Shin (Park Hyuk-kwon) and Kim Kang-soo (Uhm Tae-woong), a reassigned cop from Seoul whose mother has gone missing in the woods. With Byun Soo-ryun (Jung Yu-mi), a biologist studying wild animals, and glory-seeking hunter Baek Man-bae (Yoon Je-moon) on the team to fight the giant killer beast, the five start up the mountain to face their enemy.
Handphone (2009)
, 2h17Directed by Kim Han-min
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Uhm Tae-woong, Park Yong-woo, Park Sol-mi, Kim Nam-gil, Kim Yu-seok, Joo Jin-mo
Roles Oh Seung-min
Rating65%
Talent manager Seung-min sees Yoon Jin-ah, a rising actress, as his one last hope to turn his life around. Just as Jin-ah is on the path to stardom, he receives a threat from her former lover and gets her sex clip on his phone. Seung-min tracks down the culprit and retrieves the tape but ends up losing his phone. He realizes there is one last evidence of the sex tape on his phone and anxiously looks for it. Yi-gyu, who found Seung-min's phone, calls Seung-min's wife and asks her to come pick it up. On the night the phone was supposed to be returned, Yi-gyu doesn't show up. Now Yi-gyu is the one holding the leverage. Seung-min tries to do everything possible to get back his phone but Yi-gyu's demands are escalating to the point of no return.
Forever the Moment (2008)
, 2h4Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Films about the Olympic Games
Actors Moon So-ri, Kim Jeong-eun, Uhm Tae-woong, Jo Eun-ji, Kim Ji-young, Ha Jeong-woo
Roles Ahn Seung-pil
Rating63%
Kim Hye-kyeong is a retired handball player who has been successfully coaching in the Japan Handball League. When the coach of South Korea's women's national team suddenly quits, she is asked to fill in, but is faced with an undisciplined squad of players. Hye-kyeong tries to improve the team by recruiting some of her old teammates, including two-time Olympic gold medalist Han Mi-sook. However, Hye-kyeong's aggressiveness causes friction amongst the players, and she is replaced by former men's handball star Ahn Seung-pil, though she decides to stay with the team as a player. Seung-pil introduces modern European training methods which brings him into conflict with the older players, and things get worse when they lose a game against a high school boy's team.
Sunny (2008)
, 2h6Directed by Lee Joon-ik
Genres Drama, War, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Soo Ae, Jung Jin-young, Jung Kyung-ho, Joo Jin-mo, Uhm Tae-woong, Joo Jin-mo
Roles Sang-gil
Rating63%
Soon-yi is a young woman stuck in an arranged marriage to a man who still loves his college girlfriend. Her husband, Sang-gil, is a soldier in the Republic of Korea Army, and though she visits him regularly, he doesn't return her affections. After Sang-gil is sent to fight in the Vietnam War, Soon-yi resolves to follow him. She joins a band which is heading there, where she sings for the soldiers as "Sunny", with the hope of being reunited with her husband.
My Love (2007)
, 1h51Directed by Lee Han
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Choi Kang-hee, Kam Woo-sung, Uhm Tae-woong, Jung Il-woo, Lee Yeon-hee, Ryoo Seung-ryong
Roles Jin-man
Rating65%
Three couples and one single man experience the miracle of love during the Christmas season. Joo-won, who is prone to daydreams and flights of fancy, shares a loving relationship with her subway driver boyfriend Se-jin. College student So-hyeon falls in love with fellow student Ji-woo, and asks him for drinking lessons despite her inability to handle alcohol. Career woman Soo-jeong is attracted to widowed father Jeong-seok, though he continually rejects her advances. And oddball "free hug activist" Jin-man returns to Seoul hoping to meet his old girlfriend.
Family Ties (2006)
, 1h53Directed by Kim Tae-yong
Genres Drama
Actors Moon So-ri, Go Doo-shim, Uhm Tae-woong, Gong Hyo-jin, Bong Tae-gyu, Kim Kkobbi
Roles Hyung-chul
Rating69%
The film is divided into three different 'family' portraits. The first two take place at roughly the same time.
Another Public Enemy (2005)
, 2h28Directed by Kang Woo-suk
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Sol Kyung-gu, Jung Joon-ho, Uhm Tae-woong, Park Geun-hyung, Kang Shin-il, Byun Hee-bong
Roles Song Jung-hoon
Rating60%
Kang Chul-joong (Sol Kyung-gu), a prosecutor for the Seoul District attorney's office, is a unique one. He prefers going directly to the crime scene to reading files, his intuition and guts to logic and reason, and using weapons of force to sitting back watching his men get stabbed by criminals. And now, once again, his gets one of his gut feelings about a particular case, and wastes no time in getting involved in the Myung-sun Foundation case, during which he opening declares war on Han Sang-woo (Jung Joon-ho), the Public Enemy.
A Family (2004)
, 1h35Genres Drama
Actors Soo Ae, Joo Hyun, Park Ji-bin, Park Hee-soon, Uhm Tae-woong
Roles Dong-Soo
Rating70%
Jeong-eun, a former pickpocket with four prior convictions, is released from prison after serving a three-year sentence. She reunites with her younger brother Jeong-hwan and father Ju-seok, the latter with whom she has a troubled relationship. Ju-seok, an ex-cop-turned-fishmonger, hides his love and concern for his daughter beneath a gruff exterior. Though Jeong-eun is tough and rebellious, she is fiercely protective of her brother and father, and is genuinely determined to put her life in order this time. While under probation, she works as an assistant at a beauty salon, hoping to someday open her own salon with the money she has saved. But Chang-won, who was once her partner in crime and now leads his own gang, not only refuses to give Jeong-eun her cut of their last job, but he and his gangsters begin harassing her family, saying she's the one who owes him money.
Silmido (2003)
, 2h15Directed by Kang Woo-suk
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Sol Kyung-gu, Ahn Sung-ki, Jung Jae-young, Im Won-hee, Huh Joon-ho, Kang Shin-il
Roles Won-sang
Rating69%
On 21 January 1968, 31 North Korean commandos of Unit 124 are shown to have infiltrated South Korea in a failed mission to assassinate President Park Chung-hee.
Do You Like Bears in Spring? (2003)
, 1h38Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Bae Doona, Kim Nam-jin, Yoon Ji-hye, Oh Kwang-rok, Kwon Oh-joong, Uhm Tae-woong
Rating58%
A young woman named Hyun-chae is on train looking through an art book. As she turns the pages, she discovers a written message underneath a picture of bears playing together in the springtime. She reads: