Jun Ji-hyun
Jun Ji-hyun | |
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Born | Wang Ji-hyun 30 October 1981 Seoul, South Korea |
Other names | Gianna Jun |
Alma mater | Dongguk University - Theater and Film |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1997–present |
Agent | Culture Depot |
Spouse | Choi Joon-hyuk (married in 2012) |
Korean name | |
Hangul | |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Jeon Ji-hyeon |
McCune–Reischauer | Chŏn Chihyŏn |
Birth name | |
Hangul | |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Wang Ji-hyeon |
McCune–Reischauer | Wang Chihyŏn |
Website | www |
Jun Ji-hyun (Korean: 전지현; Hanja: 全智賢; born Wang Ji-hyun, 30 October 1981), also known as Gianna Jun, is a South Korean actress. She is best known for her role as "The Girl" in the romantic comedy My Sassy Girl (2001), one of the highest-grossing Korean comedies of all time. Other notable films include Il Mare (2000), Windstruck (2004), The Thieves (2012), The Berlin File (2013), and Assassination (2015), as well as the television series My Love from the Star (2013-2014).
Early life
Jun Ji-hyun was born in Seoul, South Korea. Her mother and her mother's friends all encouraged her to be an model or actress due to her tall and slim body shape. Her childhood dream was to become a flight attendant, but later gave up after a plane flight experience. At the age of 16, her high form friend who was a model discovered her and introduced her to a photographer. [1] Using the stage name Jun Ji-hyun, she began her career as a model for Ecole Magazine in 1997.
Career
1997-2003
Jun first became well known as a commercial model and as a TV actress. Although she made her film debut in the little-watched White Valentine in 1999, it was not until later in the year when she was featured in a commercial for Samsung My Jet Printer that she became a popular sensation. The dancing and attitude expressed in the ad made her into an icon for Koreans in their late teens and early twenties.[2]
After continuing her TV and modelling career, Jun made her first well-publicized film appearance in late 2000 with Il Mare. A handsomely shot melodrama set on Ganghwa Island, the film did respectably well at the box office (despite opening on the same day as blockbuster Joint Security Area) and solidified her status as a star.[2]
Jun's breakout film was comedy My Sassy Girl, which became a huge hit both in Korea and throughout Asia with its tale of a gullible college student and his slightly unhinged girlfriend.[3] The film spent two weeks at No. 1 in Hong Kong, and turned her into Korea's most recognizable star in the Chinese-language market.[4][5][6] She also won as Best Actress at the 2002 Grand Bell Awards. Two years then passed before she appeared in her next film, an "occult thriller" titled The Uninvited which wowed critics but failed to catch on with viewers.[7] Throughout this time she was a constant presence in TV ads and on billboards in Korea and also in other Asian countries.[2][8][9]
2004-2009: Breakthrough
2004 saw her return to the big screen in another film by Kwak Jae-yong, the director of My Sassy Girl. Windstruck cast her in the role of a policewoman, but many viewers felt it was too similar to My Sassy Girl. There were also signs that her popularity had started to suffer because of overexposure in advertisements.[10][11] Nonetheless, Windstruck became the best-performing Korean film in Japan at the time, where My Sassy Girl was not as well known.[2][12][13] In a 2005 survey of influential movie producers, she was ranked among the top ten most bankable stars in Korea.[14]
Jun's next project Daisy teamed her with Jung Woo-sung (who frequently appeared together with her in Giordano and 2% Lotte Chilsung Water advertisements), and drew attention for its 100% location shooting in the Netherlands, and for using the Hong Kong director Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs). [2][15]
In late 2006 it was announced that Jun would be making her long-predicted jump to Hollywood to take the lead role in Blood: The Last Vampire.[16] The international co-production, which was filmed in China and Argentina in 2007, is the live-action adaptation of a popular Japanese anime.[2] She went through three months of hard training to play the sword-wielding martial arts heroine.[17] During the filming and promotions for the movie prior to its 2009 release,[18][19][20] she adopted the Westernized name Gianna Jun.[21][22] "Gianna by True Religion" was launched by the luxury blue jeans brand in 2008, its first celebrity line. Jun was reportedly involved in every stage of their production, from design to deciding on fit and wash and their decoration with accessories.[23]
For the film A Man Who Was Superman, Jun cut off her signature long silky hair to play a cynical documentary producer who meets an odd, Hawaiian-shirt-clad modern-day hero who battles urban apathy and preaches the virtues of lending a hand. Of initially feeling pressured at the opportunity to work with acclaimed actor Hwang Jung-min, she said, "Although luck was probably involved, I think it's destiny for an actor to 'meet' new work. On the first day I met him, I realized that I have much to learn from him, not only from his acting, but also as an individual."[24][25]
2010-2013
In 2010, she acted opposite Chinese actress Li Bingbing in the English-language film Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, based on Lisa See's bestselling novel of the same name, which was directed by Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club). The film, set in remote 19th-century China, features the lifelong friendship between two women, Lily and Snow Flower, and their imprisonment imposed by the strict cultural codes of conduct for women at that time.[26][27][28][29] She was photographed by Annie Leibovitz for the July issue of the American edition of Vogue, the first Korean actress to be included in the iconic fashion magazine.[30][31]
As part of the star-studded cast of The Thieves, Jun was a scene stealer in Choi Dong-hoon's heist film about thieves from Korea and China who team up together to steal a diamond worth US$30 million, which is locked in a special room at a casino in Macau.[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] The Thieves became the second top-selling Korean film of all time.[40]
She played a translator married to a North Korean intelligence agent in the 2013 spy thriller The Berlin File, and director Ryoo Seung-wan praised Jun's action scenes and her North Korean dialect.[41][42][43][44]
2014-present: My Love from the Star
14 years after Happy Together in 1999, Jun made her highly anticipated return to television in fantasy romance My Love from the Star.[45] Kim Soo-hyun (Jun's costar in The Thieves) played an alien who landed on earth 400 years ago during the Joseon Dynasty, then falls for a present-day top actress (played by Jun).[46][47] The series was a ratings success, sparking trends in fashion, make-up and restaurants.[48] Jun won the Daesang (or "Grand Prize"), the highest award for television, at the 2014 Baeksang Arts Awards and the 2014 SBS Drama Awards.[49][50][51][52][53][54]
In 2015, she reunited with director Choi Dong-hoon for Assassination, an espionage action film set during the 1930s colonial era in which she played a sniper , Ahn Ok Yun who assembles a squad of independence fighters to kill a Japanese army commander and a pro-Japanese Korean business tycoon. The film was a great success and rounded at 7th on the Korea highest box office at all time. The movie gave a deep impression in people, especially Korean of the fight they had with Japan. This movie has been planned for over 10 years till it worked out. Jun Ji Hyun accepted to play to role immediately when director Choi Dong-hoon requested her to.
In 2016, Jun was ranked 8th at Forbes Korea's Top 40 Powerful Celebrities, making it her second consecutive year in the top 10, having been ranked 4th in 2015. [55][56][57][58]
Endorsements
Jun is one of the most in-demand celebrity endorsers in South Korea. In 2014, she earned an estimated ₩20 billion from advertising and endorsement fees.[59] Market research in that same year showed that based on the value of real estate holdings, she ranked first among South Korean female celebrities, and fourth out of both male and female.[60]
A lipstick she wore on My Love from the Star, YSL "Rouge Pur Couture No. 52" sold out worldwide, while the same coat she wore on the show caused a surge in sales of over 2,500 in ShesMiss stores in ten days.[61][62][63]
As of April 2014, Jun appears in the following commercials,[62] namely: outdoor clothing brand Nepa, which credited her for increased sales in China;[64] SK Telecom, for which the commercial in which she sings "You Are Handsome" was chosen as 2014's best ad and model by KOBACO;[65] Hanyul cosmetics; coffee shop franchise Droptop, which she has endorsed since 2011 that it is sometimes nicknamed the "Jun Ji-hyun café";[66] refrigerator Samsung Zipel which signed her in 2013 for her "urban and modern yet mature" image following her marriage, as well as for its Chinese ad campaign with Kim Soo-hyun in 2014;[67][68] Coupang e-commerce; vinegar drink Hongcho; Reebok sportswear; Cup Noodles; bakery Paris Baguette; Hera Cosmetics, notably the "Love All, Take All or Lose All" commercial;[69] HStyle's Spring 2015 apparel;[69] Lotte Liquor's Kloud Beer;[70] and ShesMiss clothing brand.[63]
Legal issues
Jun, along with six other South Korean stars (Jung Woo-sung, Kim Sun-a, Jo In-sung, Ji Jin-hee, Cha Tae-hyun and Yang Jin-woo), sued local monthly movie magazine Screen in 2006 for commercially using their pictures without permission.[71] Seoul Central District Court ruled in 2007 that the publisher must pay from ₩5 million to ₩15 million to each star for infringing their publicity rights.[72]
In 2009, police discovered that Jun's cell phone had been illegally cloned. Seoul Metropolitan Police arrested a private detective identified as Kim, who testified that it was ordered by SidusHQ (Jun's then-agency of 13 years), for which he was paid ₩6.4 million in cash by the brother of CEO Jung Hoon-tak. Police believed Jun’s management company used the cloned phone to keep tabs on her, in an attempt to exert control over all aspects of her life. SidusHQ denied those allegations.[73][74][75][76][77] Jung Hoon-tak was later cleared after police could not find any concrete evidence of his direct involvement.[78] Kim was sentenced to one year in prison for invasion of privacy, Jung's brother received suspended jail terms.[79] Because of the scandal, many expected her to leave once her contract expired, but she surprisingly extended her contract with SidusHQ for one more year. Then in 2011 she set up her own management agency J&Co. Entertainment,[80] which was later renamed to Culture Depot.
In 2011, SidusHQ CEO Jung Hoon-tak was accused of illegally using Jun's bank account to pocket profits from a merger and acquisition. Jung allegedly made ₩200 million after purchasing a stake in the junior KOSDAQ-listed Stom E&F in 2009 with an account under Jun's name and announcing through a public filing several months later that he would buy Stom E&F. Jung and Stom E&F's former CEO Kwon Seung-shik were reported for gaining unfair profits by leaking information on the M&A beforehand. Upon investigation by the Financial Supervisory Service, Jun testified that she had not even been aware of such an account existing under her name.[81] Jung issued a denial.[82]
Personal life
More than 600 guests, including celebrities and close friends and family of the star, attended her wedding to banker Choi Joon-hyuk on 13 April 2012 at Shilla Hotel in Jangchung-dong, central Seoul.[83][84][85][86][87] Choi is the grandson of famed hanbok designer Lee Young-hee, and the son of fashion designer Lee Jung-woo.[88][89]
Her agency confirmed in July 2015 that Jun is 10 weeks pregnant with her first child.[90][91][92]
On 10 February 2016, she gave birth to a baby boy.[93]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role |
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1999 | White Valentine | Jung-min |
2000 | Il Mare | Eun-joo |
2001 | My Sassy Girl | The Girl |
2003 | The Uninvited | Yeon |
2004 | Windstruck | Yeo Kyung-jin |
2006 | Daisy | Hye-young |
2008 | A Man Who Was Superman | Song Soo-jung |
2009 | Blood: The Last Vampire | Saya Otonashi |
2011 | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Sophia/Snow Flower |
2012 | The Thieves | Yenicall |
2013 | The Berlin File | Ryun Jung-hee |
2015 | Assassination | Ahn Ok-yun/Mitsuko |
Television
Year | Title | Role |
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1997 | The Season of Puberty | |
1998 | Inkigayo (Popular Music) | Host |
Fascinate My Heart | Wang Ga-young | |
1999 | Happy Together | Seo Yoon-joo |
2013-2014 | My Love from the Star | Cheon Song-yi |
Music video
Year | Song Title | Artist |
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1999 | "The Beginning of Love" | Leon Lai |
2000 | "Hey Girl" | Jang Hyuk (T.J Project) |
"January Love" | ||
2002 | "Love Is Always Thirsty" | Yumi |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1999 | 35th Baeksang Arts Awards | Best New Actress | White Valentine | Won |
SBS Drama Awards | New Star Award | Happy Together | Won | |
2001 | 22nd Blue Dragon Film Awards | Best Actress | My Sassy Girl | Nominated |
2002 | 39th Grand Bell Awards | Best Actress | Won | |
Popularity Award | Won | |||
2006 | 43rd Grand Bell Awards | Best Actress | Daisy | Nominated |
2012 | 56th Asia-Pacific Film Festival | Best Supporting Actress | The Thieves | Nominated |
2013 | 7th Asian Film Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |
49th Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | ||
7th Mnet 20's Choice Awards | 20's Movie Star - Female | The Berlin File | Nominated | |
17th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival[94][95] | Producer's Choice Award | The Thieves, The Berlin File | Won | |
33rd Korean Association of Film Critics Awards | Best Actress | The Berlin File | Nominated | |
2014 | 50th Baeksang Arts Awards | Grand Prize (Daesang) for Television | My Love from the Star | Won |
Best Actress (TV) | Nominated | |||
InStyle Fashionista Award | — | Won | ||
Korea Tourism Awards[96] | Star of Korean Tourism | — | Won | |
41st Korea Broadcasting Awards | Best Actor/Actress | My Love from the Star | Won | |
7th Korea Drama Awards | Grand Prize (Daesang) | Nominated | ||
3rd APAN Star Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries | Nominated | ||
Hallyu Star Award | Won | |||
SBS Drama Awards | Grand Prize (Daesang) | Won | ||
Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Drama Special | Nominated | |||
PD Award | Won | |||
Top 10 Stars | Won | |||
Best Couple Award (with Kim Soo-hyun) | Won | |||
2015 | 24th Buil Film Awards | Best Actress | Assassination | Nominated |
6th Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards[97] | President's Award | — | Won | |
52nd Grand Bell Awards | Best Actress | Assassination | Won | |
36th Blue Dragon Film Awards | Best Actress | Nominated | ||
2016 | 2016 Max Movie Awards | Best Actress | Won |
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