Lee Jung-jae

Lee Jung-jae (; born December 15, 1972) is an actor and former model from South Korea. In 2021 he gained fame for his role of Seong Gi-Hun in Netflix's survival drama Squid Game. He won a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy Award for his role as Seong Gi-Hun.

 Career 
He started his career as a fashion model. Then Lee Jung-jae began his acting career on television in the campus series Feelings (1994) and the iconic drama Sandglass (1995).

Lee's film career grew after his acting breakthrough in An Affair (1998). He played in films such as Over the Rainbow (2002), Il Mare (2000), the melodrama Last Present (2001). He also played in popular comedies, such as Oh! Brothers (2003), action films The Last Witness (2001) and Typhoon (2005), heist film The Thieves (2012), film noir New World (2013), and period film The Face Reader (2013). He was also the main protagonist in the Squid Game as Player 456 in Season 1 (2021) and Season 2 (2024).

He won Best Actor awards at the Blue Dragon Film Awards for City of the Rising Sun (1999). 

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Category:Living people
Category:1972 births
Category:South Korean movie actors
Category:South Korean television actors
Category:South Korean models
Category:Screen Actors Guild Award winners
Category:Emmy Award winning actors