Moon So-ri
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- This is a Korean name; the family name is Moon.
| Moon So-ri | |
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| Born | 문소리 July 2, 1974 South Korea |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1995 ~ present |
| Spouse(s) | Jang Jun-hwan |
| Domestic partner(s) | Lee Chang-dong |
| Moon So-ri | |
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| Hangul | 문소리 |
| Hanja | 文素利 |
| Revised Romanization | Moon So-ri |
| McCune–Reischauer | Mun So-ri |
Moon So-ri (Hangul: 문소리; born July 2, 1974), is a South Korean actress.
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[edit] Career
She appeared in plays and short films such as Black Cut and To the Spring Mountain before finding fame as a leading actress. Her first film role was in Lee Chang-dong's acclaimed Peppermint Candy, however her acting skills were not really showcased until she appeared in her second film Oasis, also by Lee Chang-dong. Her powerful portrayal of a woman with cerebral palsy earned her strong praise as well as the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Actor or Actress at the 2002 Venice Film Festival (Moon is only the second Korean to win a prize there, after Kang Soo-yeon in 1985 for The Surrogate Woman). Best Actress honors at many domestic awards ceremonies followed.[1]
The following year she again found fame in Im Sang-soo's third film A Good Lawyer's Wife. A 180-degree turn from her previous screen image, this film featured her as a free thinking woman in a decaying marriage who starts an affair with the teenage boy next door. This film was also invited to the Venice Film Festival, and she later won a Best Actress award from the Stockholm International Film Festival.[1]
In 2004, Moon starred opposite Song Kang-ho in The President's Barber, a film that illustrates 20 years of modern Korean history through the eyes of president Park Chung-hee's personal barber. She took a more central role in her next feature Sa-kwa (2005), about a woman who embarks on a new relationship after being dumped by her long-time boyfriend. Also from 2005, Bravo, My Life! sees her return to the historical era of the late 70s/early 80s in a family drama set against the political upheaval of those times.[1]
In 2006, she played a sexually promiscuous professor in Bewitching Attraction, as well as a disapproving sister in the critically-acclaimed Family Ties (for which she shared Best Actress honors with three castmates at the 2006 Thessaloniki Film Festival, where their film also swept Best Picture and Best Screenplay). Moon then starred in her first ever TV series, the big-budget fusion historical drama The Legend in 2007. She followed that with the sports movie Forever the Moment (a surprise hit in 2008), and another TV drama, this time about a family of siblings.[2] Her latest film is the human rights-themed Fly, Penguin. [3]
After graduating with a degree in Education from Sungkyunkwan University, Moon became part of the theater group Hangang from 1995 to 1997, and debuted in the play Classroom Idea (she also collaborated in its creation).[4] She has always expressed a desire to return to her stage roots, and did so in 2006 in Sad Play (Sulpun Yonguk).[5]
On December 24, 2006 she married Jang Jun-hwan, director of Save the Green Planet!.[6]
[edit] Filmography
- Fly, Penguin (2009)
- The Golden Age of My Life (TV, 2008)
- Forever the Moment (2008)
- The Legend (TV, 2007)
- Family Ties (2006)
- Bewitching Attraction (2006)
- Sa-kwa (2005)
- Bravo, My Life! (2005)
- Les Renaissances Du Cinema Coree / The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema (documentary, 2005)
- The President's Barber (2004)
- A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003)
- Oasis (2002)
- To the Spring Mountain (short, 2001)
- Plan 19 from Outer Space (short, 2001)
- Black Cut (short, 2000)
- Peppermint Candy (2000)
[edit] Awards
- 2008 MBC Drama Awards - Best Actress <Excellence> (The Golden Age of My Life)
- 2006 Thessaloniki Film Festival - Best Actress (Family Ties)
- 2004 Grand Bell Awards - Best Actress (A Good Lawyer's Wife)
- 2003 Women in Film Korea Awards - Best Actress
- 2003 Korean Film Awards - Best Actress (A Good Lawyer's Wife)
- 2003 Chunsa Film Art Awards - Best Actress (A Good Lawyer's Wife)
- 2003 Pusan Film Critics Awards - Best Actress (A Good Lawyer's Wife)
- 2003 Stockholm International Film Festival - Best Actress (A Good Lawyer's Wife)
- 2003 Seattle International Film Festival - Best Actress (Oasis)
- 2002 Okgwan Cultural Medal in Film Development
- 2002 Director's Cut Awards - Best New Actress (Oasis)
- 2002 Korean Film Awards - Best Actress, Best New Actress (Oasis)
- 2002 Korean Critics Association (Critics Choice) Awards - Best Actress (Oasis)
- 2002 Chunsa Film Art Awards - Best Actress (Oasis)
- 2002 Blue Dragon Film Awards - Best New Actress (Oasis)
- 2002 Venice Film Festival - Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Actor or Actress (Oasis)
[edit] Trivia
Moon is well-versed in pansori, the violin and the gayageum.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Darcy Paquet. "Korean Actors and Actresses: Moon So-ri." Koreanfilm.org.
- ^ "All About My Family." MBC Global Media.
- ^ "Yim Soon-rye Returns with New Feature". Korean Film Council. May 8, 2009. http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/KOFIC/Channel/?task=kofic.user.eng.b_filmnews.command.NewsView1Cmd&searchPage=1&Gesipan_SCD=1&Gesimul_SNO=1244.
- ^ "The Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival History - 2001 Jury." PiFan.com.
- ^ "Award-Winning Actress Moon So-ri Thrives on Risks and Versatility". The Korea Times. March 14, 2006. http://www.hancinema.net/award-winning-actress-moon-so-ri-thrives-on-risks-and-versatility-5506.html.
- ^ "Actress, Director to Wed on Christmas Eve". The Chosun Ilbo. December 1, 2006. http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200612/200612010004.html.
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