Born in Busan in 1974, Moon So-ri came out of Korean theater and became one of the most acclaimed actresses of the country's New Wave. She won prizes at Venice for Lee Chang-dong's Oasis (2002), having already broken through in his Peppermint Candy (1999). She led A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003) for Im Sang-soo, joined Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden (2016) and later directed her own feature The Running Actress (2017). She is a defining performer of contemporary Korean cinema, equally at home in art films and prestige television. Read more