Shim Eun-kyung

Shim Eun-kyung has claimed that she is single now and also that she hasn’t dated anyone as of now. She is focusing on her acting career and being this busy doesn’t allow her any free time to get romantically involved with someone.

She ran into a slight controversy in 2011, when she blamed the organizers of the Grand Bell Awards. They allegedly removed her name from the list of award nominees for a category because she told them that she wouldn’t be able to attend the ceremony. The organizers then gave her the Best Supporting Actress honour for her role in the film ‘Romantic Heaven’.

Shim Eun-kyung was born on May 31, 1994 in a well settled Gangneung family. She was the youngest child in the family, and hence, highly adored.

She grew up watching dramas and films at her home, and this sowed the seeds of acting in her. But she wasn’t very serious about a career in acting and it was never her dream to be famous. All she wanted was just to act.

She started to understand about life at a very early age and dug herself in science fiction comics, listening to music or practising taekwondo. This shaped her up into a mentally strong person and helped her when she started giving out back-to-back auditions.

A film star already, she finished her middle school education from South Korea and then decided to move to the US. She stated the reason that all the fame she enjoyed earlier wasn’t as great anymore and she didn’t want any of her classmates to treat her like a star. She moved to USA to have a quiet life and she finished her high school education there.

Shim started her acting career with the series ‘Dae Jang Geum’ as a child actress. After this small stint, she got more offers and appeared in the 2004 series ‘The Woman who wants to marry’, which she officially claims to be her debut.

After her roles in ‘Sweet Buns’ and ‘Emperor of the Sear’, she started getting recognised as a good actress, which was a rarity as far as child actors were concerned. Playing mostly the younger version of key characters, she quickly became everyone’s favourite due to the impressive professionalism that she exhibited.

A few minor roles followed in some big series’ such as ‘Lovers in Prague’ and ‘The Secret Lovers’ and her performances received appreciation from almost everyone who saw her work.

The 2007 film ‘Hansel and Gretel’ turned out to be her breakthrough role and turned her into a popular celebrity. She played the role of a sexually abused girl in the South Korean remake of the popular fairytale.

Thereafter, some better TV roles such as ‘The Legend’ and ‘Women of the Sun’ followed, and her performance was appreciated to such a level that the critics said that she had become the centre piece of the projects she was in, often outshining her adult co-stars.