Youn Yun-Jung is a South Korean actress who has reached the peak of her career at the age of 73. She is a reputable actress who has been in the film and television industry for nearly 50 years. She is best known for starring in Woman of Fire (1971), The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), The Bacchus Lady (2016), and Minari (2020). She has made South Korean film history nominated for the best supporting actress at the 93rd Academy Awards and Oscar in 2021. She is also known for being the wife of singer and television personality Jo Young-Nam.
Oscar Historic Nomination Of Youn Yuh-Jung
At the age of 73, Actress Youn Yun-Jung has created South Korean film history, being nominated for the best supporting actress at the 93rd Academy Awards.
Minari is the movie that made Actress Youn Yuh-Jung became the first South Korean and fourth Asian to be nominated for the best supporting actress at the Oscar in 2021. Her role in Minari as Soonja, a spirited grandmother who travels from South Korea to the United States to care for her grandchildren, has also earned nominations in five other Oscar categories.
Minari has been nominated for six awards at the Oscars and has already won 32 honors in South Korea. Her Oscar nomination comes after she has already grabbed 32 trophies for the role.
Actress Youn Yuh-Jung in the movie Minari (©:GlamourBiz.com)
Actor Steven Yeun from Minari has also rewritten Oscar’s history by becoming the first Asian-American nominee in the Best Actor category.
The News reported that Youn had never even dreamed about being nominated for an Oscar. She was in South Korea’s mandatory two-week coronavirus quarantine when she heard the news of being nominated by her friend. Youn said that she just laid on her couch and half asleep after getting the news.
The annual 93rd Academy Awards is going to be held on 25 April 2021.
Youn Yun-Jung Career And Net worth
Despite having a long filming career, No information about the net worth of Youn Yuh-Jung has been revealed.
Youn Yuh-Jung started working part-time at Tongyang Broadcasting Company in 1966 as a freshman at Hanyang University in Seoul, majoring in Korean literature and loath.
She started her professional filming career getting into TBC in 1966.
During her long acting career, Youn has appeared in various movies and TV series. She took on the leading role in the period drama Jang Hui-bin in 1971.
She debuted on the big screen with director Kim Ki-young’s Hwanyeo in the year 1971. She played the role of a young housemaid who disrupts the life of a married couple living on a chicken farm in the movie Hwanyeo.
She has shot to fame in South Korea with her 1971 debut Fire Woman, which helped her win Best Actress at the Sitges Film Festival.
From the year 1971 to 2005, She has appeared in Insect Woman (1972), Woman Requiem (1985), Be a Wicked woman (1995), Ruler of Your Own World (2002), Springtime (2004), The President's Last Bang (2005) and Be Strong, Geum-Soon! (2005). She has also starred in Really, Really Like You, Maundy Thursday, What's Up Fox? and The Old Garden in 2006.
Hwang Jin Yi (2007), Garoojigi (2008), No Limit (2009), Actresses (2009), Golden Fish (2010), The Housemaid (2010), Home Sweet Home (2010), Can You Hear My Heart? (2011), List (2011), Unexpected You (2012), The King 2 Hearts (2012), Boomerang Family (2013), The Queen's Classroom (2013), Wonderful Days (2014), Salute d' Amour (2015), Dear My Friends (2016) and Canola (2016) are also the movies and TV series featured by actress Youn.
She has cast in the Netflix series Sense8 from the year 2015 to 2017. Series Sense8 has created by the Wachowskis and screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski, where Youn has played the role of one of the female inmates sharing the cell with Korean actress Bae Du-na.
She has also starred in Sense8 (2015-2017), Keys To The Heart (2018), Lucky Chan-sil (2019), and Minari in the year 2020.
Along with movies and TV series, she has also starred in a variety of shows like Sisters Over Flowers (2013), Youn’s Kitchen (2017), All The Butlers (2018), and Youn’s Kitchen – Season 2 (2018).
She won the best actress accolades at Korea’s top two awards ceremonies, the Blue Dragon and Grand Bell.
Who Is Youn Yuh-Jung Married To? Husband
Youn Yuh-Jung and Jo Young-Nam got married in 1975. Jo is a singer and television personality. Youn was at the peak of her filming career, whereas her husband Jo had retired in 1975. The duo was blessed with two sons. Their marriage did not last so long. After being together for 12 years, the duo got divorced in 1987.