song hye kyo

 

Song Hye-kyo

Song Hye-kyo
Born	November 22, 1981 (1981-11-22) (age 30) Daegu, South Korea
Other names	Snow, Iris
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	1996–present
Korean name
Revised Romanization	Song Hye-gyo
McCune–Reischauer	Song Hye-kyo
Website
www.songhyekyo.co.kr

Song Hye-kyo (Korean:born November 22, 1981) is a South Korean model and actress. She gained popularity through television dramas such as Autumn in My Heart (2000), All In (2003), Full House (2004), and The World That They Live In (2008). .

 

Career

Song debuted in the entertainment industry in 1996 when she won the Grand Prize in SunKyung Smart (a school uniform company) when she was finishing her third year in junior high school. It was not long until she starred in her first drama, Merry Morning. Since then, she would continue to star in a string of various dramas and sitcoms but it wasn't until the KBS drama Autumn in My Heart in 2000 with Song Seung-hun and Won Bin that she rose to fame throughout Asia.
In 2003, her popularity continued to climb when she played a leading role alongside Lee Byung-hun in the gambling drama All In. The following year, she co-starred with singer Rain in the hit romantic comedy series Full House.
After the pan-Asian success of Full House, she made her big-screen debut in My Girl and I (a Korean adaptation of Crying Out Love in the Center of the World She returned to acting in 2007, as the kisaeng Hwang Jini in the film adaptation of [[Hwang Jin Yi "Hwangjini only held one man in her heart"] A year later, she made her American debut in the Hollywood indie Make Yourself at Home (formerly titled Fetish), a psychological thriller about a girl who was born to a shaman mother and tries to flee her fate by becoming an immigrant bride in the U.S. She made her TV comeback in late 2008 with The World That They Live In, a series set at a broadcast station in which Song and Hyun Bin play drama PDs who work together and fall in love.^[4]
In 2010, she starred in Camellia, an omnibus pic made up of three feature films directed by three Asian directors. Each episode is set in the past, present and future of the city of Busan, Korea. In the film's final segment Love for Sale, Song and Kang Dong-won play former lovers who forget their memories about each other which later leads them to a fatal destiny.
Chinese director John Woo announced Song's casting in his film 1949, but the project was cancelled.Wong Kar-wai then cast her in a supporting role in his biopic about Bruce Lee's kung fu master Ip Man.Titled The Grandmasters, Song learned Cantonese and martial arts for the film.
Considered one of Korea's most beautiful woman,in early 2011 Song released the photobook Song Hye-kyo's Moment which was shot by top photographers in Atlanta, New York, Buenos Aires, Patagonia, Paris, the Netherlands and Brazil.In 2010, she was ranked no. 18 among the most beautiful faces in the world by Independent Critics.
She plays a documentary producer who finds the strength to forgive the 17-year-old boy who killed her fiance but instead of redemption finds only greater tragedy in A Reason to Live (Korean title: Today), which after several delays was released in October 2011.^[ Song was a huge fan of the director and had actively sought her out, and though she had difficulty getting into character, Song said she fell in love with the script and felt her acting had matured.She considers the film "a turning point" in her life.

Endorsements

Song is one of the most in-demand product endorsers in Korea and has done many TV commercials and print ads over the years. She has been a spokesperson for popular brands such as Laneige, Levi's (Lady style), Etude, Whitea, Aritaum, Innisfree, Nintendo DS (Animal Crossing), Roem, McDonalds (Ice Cream), FHM and Vivien Bra.

Personal life

When Song was born, she was sick and her parents and doctor thought she would not survive. Miraculously she did and her parents only registered her birth on February 26, 1982 (instead of her actual birthdate). She has no siblings. Her hobbies are ice skating, swimming, and playing the piano.
Song has been in two highly publicized relationships. She started dating Lee Byung-hun while filming All In in 2003. Their relationship and subsequent break-up in 2004 generated much media attention and gossip. The experience taught her to draw a clear line between private and public life, saying in a 2008 Dong-A Ilbo interview, "The viewers suddenly learned, while in the midst of watching a drama I was acting in, that I was somebody’s girlfriend. In the end, this was an obstacle and only served to create a sense of dislike among viewers."In another interview for Fuji TV, Song was asked about her first love and fans speculated that she was obliquely referring to Lee.
Song kept in touch with Hyun Bin after The World That They Live In ended, but it was their separation while Hyun was filming Friend, Our Legend in Busan that made them realize they were in love. They announced their dating status in June 2009.In March 2011 mere hours after Hyun's military enlistment, his and Song's agencies confirmed speculation that the couple had broken up. According to the joint press release, "Both have been very busy shooting films and dramas both in and out of Korea, which inevitably caused them to grow apart." With rumors of their separation circulating since late 2010, the agencies said the two split up in early 2011 but wanted to keep it secret for the time being "because neither of them wanted the public attention to be directed on their split instead of their professional work. Hyun also did not want a personal issue to interfere with his last days with his fans before starting his military service."
Asked about the aftereffects of her two romantic relationships that caught the public's attention, Song said in October 2011, "I think the time when I felt uncomfortable about living under a microscope has gone. I'm no longer afraid of such things. What I did was typical of any woman my age. In fact, I haven't had any time to feel lonely."

Filmography

Drama

Year	Title	Role
1996	Merry Morning (KBS)
	First Love (KBS)	Jung-ah
1998	Six Siblings (MBC)
	One of a Pair (SBS)
	Marching (SBS)
	Deadly Eyes (SBS)
	White Nights 3.98 (SBS)
	How Am I? (SBS)
1999	Sweet Bride (SBS)
	Soonpoong Clinic (SBS)	Oh Hye-gyo
2000	Autumn in My Heart (KBS)	Yoon/Choi Eun-seo
2001	Guardian Angel (SBS)	Jung Da-so
	Hotelier (MBC)	Kim Yoon-hee
2003	All In (SBS)	Min Su-yeon
	Sunlight Pours Down (SBS)	Ji Yeon-woo
2004	Full House (KBS)	Han Ji-eun
2008	The World That They Live In (KBS)	Joo Joon-young

Film

Year	Title	Role
2005	My Girl and I	Bae Su-eun
2007	Hwang Jin Yi	Hwang Jini
2008	Make Yourself at Home	Sookhy
2010	Camellia - "Love for Sale"	Bo-ra
2011	A Reason to Live	Da-hye
2012	The Grandmasters