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Lee Yoo-ri is a popular South Korean actress and a successful businesswoman

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BirthdayJanuary 28, 1980
NationalitySouth Korean
FamousFilm & Theater Personalities, Actresses, Business Women
SpousesJo Kye-hyun (m. 2010)
Universities
  • Kyewon University of Arts and Design
Birth PlaceSeoul, South Korea
Height165
GenderFemale
Sun SignAquarius
Born inSeoul, South Korea
Famous asActress
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Who is Lee Yoo-ri?

Lee Yoo-ri is a popular South Korean actress and a successful businesswoman. Lee made her screen debut in the year 2000 with a very small role in the series ‘Hur Jun’ and made her official debut in the year 2001, where she appeared in back to back three dramas. Never quite achieving the true stardom, she continuously kept appearing in different supporting or small roles in TV series’ over the years, until 2011. It was the year when she finally received credits for her acting prowess after her appearance as an antagonist in the series ‘Twinkle Twinkle’ went huge. After this award winning stint, she came around playing another solid role in the series ‘Jong Bo-ri’ is here. Winning the Daesung Award for her performance, she finally established herself as a strong competent actor. In the same year, Gallup Korea included her in the highly prestigious list of ‘Actor of the Year’, where Lee stood at the second spot. Apart from acting, she has been a face of many popular South Korean brands and her frequent appearance in the commercials keeps her afresh in the public eye. She got married to her theologist boyfriend Jo Kye-hun in 2010.

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Childhood & Early Life

Lee Yoo-ri was born in Seoul, South Korea on 28th January 1980 in a middle class household. She was the youngest member in the family of 6, and had an older brother and two older sisters.

Always a fan of dramas, she had seen the dream of becoming an actor well during her childhood days and eventually started training herself with the plays in school.

Having an artistic inclination towards life, she was always dug up in books, paintings and music and loved the way the artists lead their lives. Acting had taken a backseat during her high school years as she prepared herself to become a painter, or a musician.

Once the school was over, and she enrolled into the Kyewon University of Arts & Design, she once again got interested in acting and started giving out auditions after auditions, eventually getting a few smaller parts in the TV productions.

Career

Lee’s very first stint in front of the camera was with ‘Hur Jun’ in 1999, where her role was limited to just being an extra as one of the court maids.

After a year gap, she finally bagged a better role in 2001, in the youth series ‘School 4’, an anthology TV series, which she says was her debut. In the same year, she got to play the role of Empress Sunmyeong in the period drama ‘Empress Myeongseong’. In both the series, Lee had minimal time on-screen and in the following few series’ as well, there was no improvement in the roles she was being offered.

Lee was getting sidelined as just another pretty face with no talent and as in the next few years, she kept appearing in the smaller roles in series’ such as ‘Argon’, ‘Wife’, Twenty’ and ‘Yellow Handkerchief’, there was a time when she thought of quitting.

In 2004, came her first and last movie appearance to date with the small budget horror film ‘Bunshinsaba’. Although the film wasn’t released widely and remained largely unknown, it did receive critical acclaim and travelled to different film festivals around the globe. This was also the first time when Lee proved that given the right roles, she can give a chilling performance.

But it just wasn’t her time yet. Though the roles had improved, still not to the satisfaction of Lee, who desperately wanted to establish herself as a great actor. She joined the cast of the series ‘Mom’s dead upset’ in 2008, where she essayed the role of an innocent sweet working girl who receives the shock of a lifetime when she comes to know that her boyfriend happens to be a rich man.

And then things changed for better in the following couple of years. She got offered the leading parts in the series’ ‘Daring Women’ and ‘I Love you, don’t Cry’. Although both the series’ were minimal successes in terms of ratings, Lee received a major award nomination for the former one and it was the offer following these two series’ that finally started an upward slope in her career.

She had a drastic change in image for the 2011 series ‘Twinkle Twinkle’ where she played a negative role. She played a poor young girl who comes to know that she was born in a rich family and was switched at birth. She wants to alter her circumstances and is willing to destroy everything that comes in her way. Lee shone at the Korea Drama Awards and the MBC Drama Awards, receiving top acting honours for her chilling performance.

Another successful stint followed in the next year in form of a drama ‘Ice Adonis’, where Lee played the lead role as an innocent sweet girl, contrasting her previous villainous role. The drama was a massive success, topping the charts for the 18 consecutive weeks and earned Lee widespread accolades and paved her way to get further more interesting roles.

’Jang Bo-ri is Here!’, the series hit the screens in 2014, and shoot up to success as soon as it was released, further establishing Lee as one of the best actors of that time. It turned out to be the most successful year of Lee’s professional life, as she managed to bag every other top award for her performance as a poor born girl, who’s willing to do anything it takes to become a rich person.

Other than sweeping the Daesang Award at the MBC Drama Awards for ‘Jang Bo-ri is Here!’, she won a PD Award and received nomination for the Top Excellence Award. Gallup Korea, smitten by her success, welcomed her in their list of Top Korean Actors of the year, and gave her the second position.

In 2015, she led the cast of a romantic comedy drama ‘Super Daddy Yeol’, where she endearingly played the role of a single mother, a strong headed woman who finds out that she is terminally ill and now looking for the best possible father for her daughter. Her performance in the light hearted role, with the layers of depressive sad woman earned her huge respect among the critic circles.

In 2016, she played the role of twins in the drama ‘The Promise’, a series which turned out to be a moderate commercial and critical success, but earned Lee an Excellence Award and Best Actress in a Daily Drama award at the KBS Drama Awards.

In another highly eventful and successful year of her career in 2017, she appeared in four successful series’ back to back. Playing cameos in ‘Unni is Alive’ and ‘Strongest Deliveryman’, she then played the leading role in the family comedy drama ‘My Father is Strange’, which revolved around a happy family which welcomes a young man, who claims to be a part of them. For her role, Lee won Actress of the Year Award at Brand of the Year Awards.

Personal Life

Lee Yoo-ri met theologist Jo Kye-hun in 2008 during one of her bible studies and the couple started dating a year later, eventually getting married in 2010.

Lee is a devoted Christian and converted from Buddhism to Christianity in 2002.

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Lee Yoo-ri biography timelines

  • // 28th Jan 1980
    Lee Yoo-ri was born in Seoul, South Korea on 28th January 1980 in a middle class household. She was the youngest member in the family of 6, and had an older brother and two older sisters.
  • // 1999
    Lee’s very first stint in front of the camera was with ‘Hur Jun’ in 1999, where her role was limited to just being an extra as one of the court maids.
  • // 2001
    After a year gap, she finally bagged a better role in 2001, in the youth series ‘School 4’, an anthology TV series, which she says was her debut. In the same year, she got to play the role of Empress Sunmyeong in the period drama ‘Empress Myeongseong’. In both the series, Lee had minimal time on-screen and in the following few series’ as well, there was no improvement in the roles she was being offered.
  • // 2002
    Lee is a devoted Christian and converted from Buddhism to Christianity in 2002.
  • // 2004
    In 2004, came her first and last movie appearance to date with the small budget horror film ‘Bunshinsaba’. Although the film wasn’t released widely and remained largely unknown, it did receive critical acclaim and travelled to different film festivals around the globe. This was also the first time when Lee proved that given the right roles, she can give a chilling performance.
  • // 2008
    But it just wasn’t her time yet. Though the roles had improved, still not to the satisfaction of Lee, who desperately wanted to establish herself as a great actor. She joined the cast of the series ‘Mom’s dead upset’ in 2008, where she essayed the role of an innocent sweet working girl who receives the shock of a lifetime when she comes to know that her boyfriend happens to be a rich man.
  • // 2008 To 2010
    Lee Yoo-ri met theologist Jo Kye-hun in 2008 during one of her bible studies and the couple started dating a year later, eventually getting married in 2010.
  • // 2011
    She had a drastic change in image for the 2011 series ‘Twinkle Twinkle’ where she played a negative role. She played a poor young girl who comes to know that she was born in a rich family and was switched at birth. She wants to alter her circumstances and is willing to destroy everything that comes in her way. Lee shone at the Korea Drama Awards and the MBC Drama Awards, receiving top acting honours for her chilling performance.
  • // 2014
    ’Jang Bo-ri is Here!’, the series hit the screens in 2014, and shoot up to success as soon as it was released, further establishing Lee as one of the best actors of that time. It turned out to be the most successful year of Lee’s professional life, as she managed to bag every other top award for her performance as a poor born girl, who’s willing to do anything it takes to become a rich person.
  • // 2015
    In 2015, she led the cast of a romantic comedy drama ‘Super Daddy Yeol’, where she endearingly played the role of a single mother, a strong headed woman who finds out that she is terminally ill and now looking for the best possible father for her daughter. Her performance in the light hearted role, with the layers of depressive sad woman earned her huge respect among the critic circles.
  • // 2016
    In 2016, she played the role of twins in the drama ‘The Promise’, a series which turned out to be a moderate commercial and critical success, but earned Lee an Excellence Award and Best Actress in a Daily Drama award at the KBS Drama Awards.
  • // 2017
    In another highly eventful and successful year of her career in 2017, she appeared in four successful series’ back to back. Playing cameos in ‘Unni is Alive’ and ‘Strongest Deliveryman’, she then played the leading role in the family comedy drama ‘My Father is Strange’, which revolved around a happy family which welcomes a young man, who claims to be a part of them. For her role, Lee won Actress of the Year Award at Brand of the Year Awards.

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    Lee Yoo-ri was born at 1980-01-28

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    Lee Yoo-ri was born in Seoul, South Korea

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    Lee Yoo-ri's nationalities is South Korean

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    Lee Yoo-ri's spouses is Jo Kye-hyun (m. 2010)

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    Lee Yoo-ri studied at Kyewon University of Arts and Design

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