Born in Seoul in 1973, Jeon Do-yeon is one of the most decorated dramatic actresses of Korean cinema. She earned international recognition with Lee Chang-dong s Secret Sunshine (2007), for which she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, the first Korean actress to do so. She reunited with the director for Poetry-adjacent art cinema through the decades and led Im Sang-soo s The Housemaid (2010) at Cannes as well. She reached streaming audiences worldwide with the action thriller Kill Boksoon (2023). Fiercely committed and often devastating in emotional scenes, she is a benchmark for serious Korean film acting. Read more