Born in 1991 and a student of the Film Department of Konkuk University, RYU Hye-young became active in short films from the tender age of 16, when she appeared in <High School Girls>. Following more roles in well-received shorts, RYU appeared in the feature-length omnibus <A Time to Love>. In 2013, she won the Best Actress Prize from the Multicultural International Short Film Festival for the film <Graduation Trip>. Her first full feature length role came in...More

Born in 1991 and a student of the Film Department of Konkuk University, RYU Hye-young became active in short films from the tender age of 16, when she appeared in <High School Girls>. Following more roles in well-received shorts, RYU appeared in the feature-length omnibus <A Time to Love>. In 2013, she won the Best Actress Prize from the Multicultural International Short Film Festival for the film <Graduation Trip>. Her first full feature length role came in 2013 when she appeared in the Korean Academy of Film Arts feature <INGtoogi: Battle of Internet Trolls>. Her scene-stealing comic performance earned her a Best New Actress prize from the Busan Film Critics Awards, as well as a nomination from the Buil Film Awards. Her commercial debut came alongside SUL Kyung-gu and PARK Hae-il in the comedy-drama <My Dictator>, and earned her more nominations for Best New Actress awards from the Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Max Movie Awards. She went on to appear in the CHA Tae-hyun comedy <Slow Video>, the shamanism docudrama <Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits>, the 2015 revenge thriller <Fatal Intuition> and the romantic Colonial Era drama <Love, Lies> in early 2016. More fame came her way when she appeared in the popular TV shows <Spy> and <Reply 1988> in 2015.Less