Born in 1991, Won Jinah started to dream of being an actor early on but didn’t pass the entry exam for the theater and film school she was applying for and chose instead to study cultural planning. She eventually dropped out after a year and did a string of odd jobs to support her family, including at a postpartum confinement center, but her parents encouraged her to move to Seoul so she could have a better chance at achieving her dream. She first appeared in the short mov...More

Born in 1991, Won Jinah started to dream of being an actor early on but didn’t pass the entry exam for the theater and film school she was applying for and chose instead to study cultural planning. She eventually dropped out after a year and did a string of odd jobs to support her family, including at a postpartum confinement center, but her parents encouraged her to move to Seoul so she could have a better chance at achieving her dream. She first appeared in the short movie <A Game of Catch> (2015) after passing an audition, and this was soon followed by <Secondhand, Paul> (2015). She then landed a minor role in Kim Jeewoon’s period espionage film <The Age of Shadows> (2016), but it was for her convincing performance as a North Korean girl in <Steel Rain> (2017) that she was first noticed by the public. After beating more than a hundred hopefuls in an audition, she was cast as the female lead of television drama series <Rain or Shine> (2017-2018), for which she later received a nomination for Best New Actress at the Baeksang Arts Awards and a newcomer win from the APAN Star Awards. Next for her was a supporting part in the financial thriller <Money> (2018) and was part of the main cast of the political comedy <Long Live the King> (2019). After a hiatus in 2020, she came back in the workplace drama series <She Would Never Know> (2021) and the fantasy Netflix Original series <Hellbound>, directed by Yeon Sangho.Less