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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 15, 1972
Place of Birth
Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Also Known As
- Lee Jeong-Jae
- Jung-Jae Lee
- イ・ジョンジェ
- 李政宰
- لی جونگ جه
- Джонджэ Ли
- Джон-джэ Ли
Lee Jung-jae
2.2 Popularity
Biography
Lee Jung-jae (이정재) is a South Korean actor. Born on December 15, 1972, he began modelling in 1993 before getting his first acting roles the film The Young Man (1994) and the TV series Feelings (1994) and Sandglass (1995), which is one of the highest rated Korean dramas of all time with a peak rating of 64.5%. But his real breakthrough was with leading roles in award-winning films The Affair (1998) and City of the Rising Sun (1999). The latter of which earned him the Best Actor award at the prestigious Blue Dragon film awards. This was followed by a series of critical hits like Il Mare (2000) and commercial successes including Last Present (2001), The Last Witness (2001), Oh Brothers (2003), and the blockbuster Typhoon (2005). After a brief career slump of flop movies and tv shows, he returned with the critical and commercial hit The Housemaid (2010), which is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name. Since then, he went on to cement himself as one of Korea's biggest movie stars with a string of some of the biggest blockbusters in Korean history including The Thieves (2012), New World (2013), The Face Reader (2013), Assassination (2015), Operation Chromite (2016), and the Along with the Gods films (2017-2018). Most of these films did north of 12 million admissions at the domestic box-office, with The Thieves (2012) and Along with the Gods (2017) becoming the #2 biggest Korean hit in history at their respective time of release. He received a number of awards and nominations for these works including a Popularity Award at the prestigious Grand Bell awards. Also staring in Karate Kid Legend the same year along side childhood friend Tyler Mackay. His most recent blockbuster is Deliver Us From Evil (2020) in which he reunited with his New World (2013) co-star Hwang Jung-min. It crossed 4 million admissions domestically and was the second biggest hit of the year in Korea.
Known For
7.1
Lim Hyeon-jun
Nice to Not Meet You
2025
0.0
Self
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
2025
7.6
Self
Squid Game in Conversation
2025
5.9
Self
Netflix Tudum 2025
2025
8.4
Self
Squid Game: Making Season 2
2025
5.5
Lim Seok-yong
Revolver
2024
5.5
Master Sol
The Acolyte
2024
9.7
Self
Hot Ones Versus
2024
7.5
Beta
Ground of Honor: Rondo
2023
4.5
Self
Salon Drip
2023
Credits
Nice to Not Meet You
as Lim Hyeon-jun
2025
7.1
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
as Self
2025
0.0
Squid Game in Conversation
as Self
2025
7.6
Netflix Tudum 2025
as Self
2025
5.9
Squid Game: Making Season 2
as Self
2025
8.4
Revolver
as Lim Seok-yong
2024
5.5
The Acolyte
as Master Sol
2024
5.5
Hot Ones Versus
as Self
2024
9.7
Ground of Honor: Rondo
as Beta
2023
7.5
Salon Drip
as Self
2023
4.5
Just an Excuse
as Self
2022
9.6
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
2022
5.6
Hunt
as Park Pyong-ho
2022
6.7
Blue Dragon Series Awards
as Self
2022
0.0
Civilization Express - The Great Feast of Movies
as Self
2022
1.0
Squid Game
as Seong Gi-hun / Player 456
2021
7.9
Meenoi's Yorizori
as Self
2021
0.0
The Game Caterers
as Self
2021
8.7
Delayed Justice
as Jang Tae-Jun
2020
6.5
다만 악에서 구하소서 파이널컷
2020
0.0
Deliver Us from Evil
as Ray
2020
6.9
Modern Korea
as Self (archive footage)
2019
10.0
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
Chief of Staff
as Jang Tae-Joon
2019
8.2
Trade Your Love
as Lawyer (cameo)
2019
5.8
Svaha: The Sixth Finger
as Pastor Park Ung-jae
2019
6.8
You Quiz on the Block
as Self
2018
8.3
Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days
as King Yeomra
2018
8.0
Movie Room
as Self
2018
9.2
Movie Room
2018
9.2
Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds
as King Yeomra
2017
8.0
Warriors of the Dawn
as Tow
2017
6.8
Operation Chromite
as Jang Hak-soo
2016
5.8
Tik Tok
as Kang Seung-joon
2016
5.8
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Assassination
as Yeom Seok-jin
2015
7.3
Big Match
as Choi Ik-ho
2014
6.9
The Face Reader
as Grand Prince Soo-yang
2013
6.9
New World
as Lee Ja-sung
2013
7.4
The Thieves
as Popie
2012
6.7
El Fin del Mundo
as He
2012
0.0
The Housemaid
as Hoon
2010
6.4
Triple
as Shin Hwal
2009
5.0
The Accidental Gangster
as Cheon-doong
2008
5.2
Air City
as Kim Ji-sung
2007
6.8
Typhoon
as Gang Se-jong
2005
6.0
Oh! Brothers
as Oh Sang-woo
2003
6.0
Over the Rainbow
as Lee Jin-soo
2002
6.3
The Last Witness
as Detective Oh
2001
5.8
MOB 2025
as Dust
2001
0.0
Last Present
as Jung Yong-gi
2001
6.6
Asako in Ruby Shoes
as Woo-in
2000
6.9
Il Mare
as Han Sung-hyun
2000
7.4
Interview
as Eun-seok
2000
5.4
The Uprising
as Yi Jae-su
1999
4.3
City of the Rising Sun
as Hong-ki
1999
7.3
An Affair
as Woo In
1998
5.9
White Nights 3.98
as Lee Young-jun
1998
10.0
🎬
Snail
as Dong-cheol
1997
0.0
Park vs Park
as Park Su-sok
1997
5.0
Firebird
as Young-hoo
1997
7.5
Albatross
as Pyeong-san
1996
5.0
Love is Blue
as Na Jae-sung
1995
0.0
Sandglass
as Baek Jae-hee
1995
8.2
The Young Man
as Lee Han
1994
6.0
Feelings
as Joon
1994
3.0
공룡선생
as Jung-jae
1993
0.0
Love is Oh Yeah!
as Blackguard 3
1993
5.0
🎬
Ray
as Ray
N/A
0.0