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Song Joong Ki
Song Joong-ki (Korean: Song Joong-ki/Song Joong-ki, Romanized: Song Joong-ki, September 19, 1985 -) is a South Korean actor and graduated from Sungkyunkwan University. In 2021, he won the Chunshi Film Award for Best Actor for South Korea's first science fiction film "Victory". In 2024, he won the Busil Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for the noir film "Disaster". In 2008, he made his debut with the movie "Frost Flower Shop". He became famous through starring in the costume dramas "Sungkyunkwan Scandal" (2010) and "A Tree with Deep Roots" (2011). In 2012, he reached the pinnacle of acting for the first time with the TV series "The Kind Man" and the movie "Wolf Boy". In 2016, the first TV drama "Descendants of the Sun" after his discharge from the army caused "Song Joong Ki Syndrome" in South Korea and Asia with the role of Yoo Si Jin, and he became a Hallyu star. In 2022, the TV series "The Youngest Son of the Plutocrat" starring in it set new records in ratings and topicality after "Vincenzo" (2021) and the movie "Victory" (2021); and entered the Cannes Film Festival for the first time with the movie "Chaos" (2023). Song Joong-ki has appeared in many works with different themes, including the war film "Battleship Island" (2017), the original fantasy TV series "Arthdal Chronicles" (2019), the black comedy "Vincenzo" (2021), and the space opera "Victory" ( 2021), the fantasy revenge drama "The Son of the Rich" (2022), the noir film "The Disaster" (2023), the drama "The End of the Road" (2024), and the crime thriller "Bogotá: The Land of Last Chance" (2024). By challenging works of various themes, he has become one of the few actors with both acting skills and popularity. He has been selected as the TV Actor of the Year by Gallup Korea and the Movie Actor of the Year by Gallup Korea many times, and won first place in 2012 and 2017.
- Category
- Film & TV
- Nationality
- Republic of Korea
- Born
- 1985-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q485517