Choi ji woo uhm tae woong biography

South Korean actor

In this Asiatic name, the family name evolution Uhm.

Uhm Tae-woong (born April 5, ) is a South Altaic actor. He made his characterization debut in , but at first struggled to emerge from embellish the shadow of his senior sister, popular singer-actress Uhm Jung-hwa. After several years of miniature roles and work in one-act dramas, Uhm began to get recognition after his villainous roll in the romantic comedy Sassy Girl Chun-hyang. In , take steps made his breakthrough in righteousness critically acclaimed Resurrection, followed strong another revenge-themed series Lucifer wear Since then, he has asterisked in diverse leading roles spreading film and television, notably resource Forever the Moment (), Chaw (), Cyrano Agency (), Architecture (), and Man propagate the Equator ().

Career

– Last-ditch actor

Uhm Tae-woong was unsure which college course to take, good he initially joined Kyungmin College's theater department because his pulverize was there. But even sustenance the girl shifted majors, Uhm stayed after having befriended uncluttered fellow student who would suit his current manager, and began acting in earnest.^[1]

Uhm made sovereignty acting debut in at depiction age of 24, and began playing bit parts and applicability roles in films, television dramas and music videos. Among these was the blockbuster Silmido, handset which he played a adherent of a suicide commando habitation trained to kill Kim Il-sung in the s. Starring experienced actors Sul Kyung-gu and Ahn Sung-ki, Silmido drew over 10 million admissions, and Ahn pleased Uhm, saying he "would wag into a true actor."^{[citation needed]} Uhm continued to go velleity auditions with little success, to a degree from the long shadow thrust by his older sister, habitual singer-actress Uhm Jung-hwa.^[2]

Then in , Uhm played a dying male in the acclaimed Drama Throw out episode Blue Skies of Jeju Island, a well-received performance cause which he won his foremost acting trophy at the KBS Drama Awards.

Breakthrough

Uhm began his rise to popularity opposed to the romantic comedy series Sassy Girl Chun-hyang, a modern retailing of the classic Korean story Chunhyangjeon. But instead of blue blood the gentry villainous magistrate of the tale, Uhm played a talent commission executive who becomes obsessed touch the heroine.^[3]

But it was Resurrection later that year that fast his stardom. He had primarily been cast as the rival, but after lead actor Commons Yong-woo dropped out three weeks before filming due to arrangement conflicts, director Park Chan-hong took a risk and cast Uhm as the protagonist.^[4] Playing doubled roles as two very disparate identical twins, one of whom embarks on a quest plan revenge, it was Uhm's premier leading role in a Small screen series.^[5] Despite low ratings, Resurrection was a critical hit shaft gained a cult following, folk tale one review praised Uhm represent "the kind of acting awaited from Song Kang-ho and Choi Min-sik," not from a callow little-known actor who'd previously comed in a few projects staging supporting roles.^[6][7] His growing fanbase nicknamed him "the UhmForce" (derived from Star Wars), and fair enough received an Excellence Award use the KBS Drama Awards suffer a Best TV Actor oratory from the Baeksang Arts Awards.^[8]

– Leading roles continue

In , noteworthy and Resurrection leading lady Outshine Ji-min were cast in Wolf, but an on-set accident lose concentration injured Han and co-star Eric Mun led to production entity halted and the series was cancelled after airing only trine episodes.^[2][9] Uhm moved on succeed to Stranger Than Paradise, in which he played the manager signal your intention a singer, the same bride his long-lost brother also flood in love with. He further joined the ensemble cast last part Kim Tae-yong's critically acclaimed release Family Ties, playing a incautious but charming man who in a flash shows up at his sister's door with a live-in companion 20 years his senior. Realize this role, Uhm won Blow out of the water New Actor at the Chunsa Film Art Awards.

In , Uhm, reunited with Resurrection's administrator Park Chan-hong and writer Diminish Ji-woo in Lucifer, the specially in Park and Kim's noir vengeance trilogy that explore nobleness conflict between good and shocking, and sin and punishment. Explicit gave another memorable lead help out as a detective hunting poverty-stricken a serial killer while attempting to atone for his over. Uhm also starred in Dec romance My Love, in which his character is a Natural Hugs activist who returns work to rule Korea after six years in a foreign country in the hopes of solemn his ex-girlfriend.

Finally no mortal known as simply "Uhm Jung-hwa's kid brother,"^[2] he continued holdings a diverse filmography in Rope in Yim Soon-rye's sleeper hitForever grandeur Moment, Uhm played the durable coach of the National Women's Handball Team (and received neat Best Supporting Actor nomination evade the Blue Dragon Film Awards). In Lee Joon-ik's Sunny, fair enough played a newly married Altaic soldier conscripted during the War War. And in Iri, be active played a cab driver compelling care of his mentally deficient sister in the aftermath signify the Iri Station Explosion.

– Ratings and box-office success

In , Uhm played a celebrity director who is threatened by brush up unknown man and driven appointment the extremes in Handphone.^[10] That was followed by the murky comedyChaw, in which his impulse is a policeman battling best a mutant boar. Uhm run away with starred as 7th-century Silla common Kim Yushin in the well-liked period dramaQueen Seondeok, for which he received a Top Superiority Award at the MBC Spectacle Awards.^[11][12][13]

Romantic comedy Cyrano Agency was the 8th most commercially flourishing Korean film of , meticulous in it, Uhm played straight theater actor-turned-dating coach whose ex-girlfriend is being pursued by tiara client.^[14][1] While in Dr. Champ, after his character's ice sphere career was ended by cut, he became a cranky athleticss medicine doctor reminiscent of Doctor House.^[15]

– Reality show

In , Uhm joined the cast of 2 Days & 1 Night, shipshape and bristol fashion popular variety-reality show which crossing throughout Korea, featuring small towns and their inhabitants.^[16] Through stop working, viewers discovered the real-life withdrawing, dorky personality behind Uhm's fierce screen persona.^[17]

Meanwhile, he continued sign out his acting projects. He not with it opposite 2 Days & 1 Night co-star Joo Won soupзon S.I.U., as two detectives who team up against corruption have as a feature their ranks.^[18]

In , Uhm seized one half of a kinky terminally ill couple in Never Ending Story,^[19][20][21] and an father building his first love's home in Architecture (the tide was a box-office hit, breakdown records at the time by the same token the top-grossing Korean melodrama work at all time).^[22]

He returned to leader-writers in another revenge-themed drama, Man from the Equator. Uhm histrion praise for his performance chimp a blind man, and reactionary an Excellence Award from honesty KBS Drama Awards, as in shape as a Best TV Human nomination from the Baeksang Humanities Awards.^{[23][24][25][26]}

In , he made natty guest appearance in Joo Won's spy comedy series 7th Bring to somebody's attention Civil Servant. Uhm then reunited with Man from the Equator director Kim Yong-soo in The Blade and Petal, a duration drama set in Goguryeo. Be active played Yeon Gaesomun's fictional blameworthy son who has a impermissible romance with the princess whose father, the king, was glue by Yeon in a coup.^[27][28]

Veteran actor Park Joong-hoon then meaning Uhm in the lead representation capacity in Park's directorial debut Top Star. He played a supervisor who dreams of becoming be over actor.^[29][30]

Later that year, Uhm not done 2 Days & 1 Night along with other regulars Leeward Soo-geun, Sung Si-kyung, and Yoo Hae-jin.^[31]

Cable dramas

In early , Uhm played an arrogant peel director who falls in tenderness with a divorcee in Can We Fall in Love, Again?, which aired on cable interim jTBC.

This was followed following in the year by Righteous Love from tvN, in which his character's marriage is infringe to the test after realm wife has an affair, advantageous as a marine researcher crystalclear sets out to prove ditch her new romance is "invalid."^[32]

Back to variety

In January , Uhm and his daughter Ji-on began appearing in The Give back of Superman, a reality agricultural show in which male celebrities grip care of their young family unit for 48 hours.^[33] He lefthand the program in October

Personal life

Uhm's father, Uhm Jin-ok, was a public school music professor who died in a motorbike accident before Uhm turned era old. After his father's demise, the family (consisting of coronet mother, Yoo Gyeong-sook, three major sisters, and him as class youngest) faced serious financial squeezing. His older sister Uhm Jung-hwa entered show business as first-class pop singer and released bitterness first album in (earning excellence label "Madonna of Korea"); she later turned to acting.

On the November 4, episode raise 2 Days & 1 Night, Uhm made the surprise account that he was engaged tell off ballerina Yoon Hye-jin, and walk they were expecting their cardinal child. The daughter of old stager actor Yoon Il-bong and niece of veteran actor Yoo Dong-geun, Yoon was a principal performer with the Korea National Choreography before she moved to righteousness Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. They were introduced by Uhm's older sister Uhm Jung-hwa.^{[34][35][36][37][38]} Say publicly couple wed on January 9, at Conrad Hotel Seoul.^[39][40][41]2 Cycle 1 night co-star Sung Si Kyung and singer Yoo Hee Yeol sang on their wedding.^[42] Their daughter, Uhm Ji-on, was born on June 18, ^[43]

Filmography

Film

Television series

Variety show

Music video

Theater

Discography

Awards and nominations

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