Yoo Inna

**Yoo Inna** is a South Korean actress and DJ.
After supporting roles in *High Kick! Through the Roof* (2009-2010) and *Secret Garden* (2010), she rose to fame as the lead actress in *Queen and I* (2012), which led to a supporting role in *My Love from the Star* (2013-2014). She is also known for her roles in *Guardian: The Lonely and Great God* (2016–2017), one of the highest rated cable television series in South Korea and *Touch Your Heart* (2019).

Aside from acting, Yoo also ventured into radio. She was the DJ of *Let's Crank Up the Volume* from 2011-2016.
In 2020, Yoo was announced as one of the MC's of the Mnet program, Produce 5201314. This program will be the fifth season of *Produce 101*.

## Personal Life

**Yoo In-na** was born in Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea. She has an older sister.

She did her high school education from Sunae High School and went on to join Kyungwon University.

When she was young she tried her hand at singing and dancing by joining an entertainment agency as a singer at the age of 16. She even joined a girl group but did not get success to make a name for herself as she had difficulty with the dance steps of Korean Pop. Even after regular practice for a few years she had to give up the idea of a career in singing and dancing and diverted her attention to acting.

## Career

At the age of 16, Yoo In-na joined an entertainment agency as an apprentice singer in 1998, and had nearly become part of a girl group. After 11 years and five different agencies, she could not be prominent. Yoo said she had difficulty memorizing the dance choreography required of K-pop singers, and after practicing for eight hours a day, six days a week, she had resigned from becoming an idol.

In 2006, Yoo joined YG Entertainment as an aspiring actress. She said, "If singing wasn't meant to be, I decided to give acting a go because it seemed fun. I never gave up. A lot of my friends did, though, even though they were prettier and more capable than me." She first came to note in 2009 with the sitcom *High Kick Through the Roof* on MBC. Several supporting roles followed, notably in the 2010 drama *Secret Garden*, which she received a Best New Actress award at the Baeksang Arts Awards, and as the second female lead in Hong sisters' romantic comedy *The Greatest Love*.

She was an MC for *TV Entertainment Tonight* from March 3, 2011 to June 4, 2012, for which she won Best Variety Entertainer at the SBS Entertainment Awards. She was also the DJ for KBS Cool FM's *Let's Crank Up the Volume*, which is the highest-rated radio program in its timeslot across both AM and FM bandwidths.

Yoo's vocals were featured in Humming Urban Stereo's 2011 digital single "You, That Day" (넌 그날). She also sang for the soundtrack of her 2011 film *My Black Mini Dress* alongside her castmates Yoon Eun-hye, Park Han-byul, and Cha Ye-ryun.

In 2012, Yoo starred in her first leading role in the tvN time-slip romance series *Queen and I*.

She next starred in the family drama *You're the Best, Lee Soon-shin*, and as the female antagonist in the fantasy romance drama *My Love from the Star*. Due to the popularity of *My Love from the Star* in China, Yoo was cast in the leading role opposite Godfrey Gao in the 2014 Chinese romantic comedy film *Wedding Bible* (its director Heo In-moo previously directed Yoo in *My Black Mini Dress*).

In March 2014, Yoo became the new host of beauty program *Get It Beauty*. Later that year, she starred in the mystery-romantic comedy series *My Secret Hotel*.

In 2016, she starred in the romantic comedy series *One More Happy Ending*, followed by the fantasy drama *Guardian: The Lonely and Great God*.

In 2019, Yoo starred in the romance comedy drama *Touch Your Heart* alongside *Guardian* co-star Lee Dong-wook.
In 2020, Yoo was announced as one of the MC's of Produce 5201314.

## Filmography

### Film[edit]

 2011
 2012

### Discography

 2011
Cha Ye-ryun and Yoo Inna