Born in 1979 in Gangwon province, KIM You-mi attended Kyewon Arts High School and later the Seoul University of Arts, where she studied for a broadcasting degree. She kicked off her career on the small screen in <Swat Police> (2000), for which she received the New Actress prize from the SBS Acting Awards. She received the same prize from the KBS Acting Awards in 2002 for her role in <Man of the Sun, Lee Je-ma>. That same year she broke into the film industry with ...More

Born in 1979 in Gangwon province, KIM You-mi attended Kyewon Arts High School and later the Seoul University of Arts, where she studied for a broadcasting degree. She kicked off her career on the small screen in <Swat Police> (2000), for which she received the New Actress prize from the SBS Acting Awards. She received the same prize from the KBS Acting Awards in 2002 for her role in <Man of the Sun, Lee Je-ma>. That same year she broke into the film industry with a leading role in the horror film <Phone>, alongside HA Ji-won. She kept active both in film and on television over the following years, including another K-horror with <Doll Master> in 2004. The next year, she appeared in the melodrama <The Windmill Palm Grove>, for which she was nominated for Best New Actress at the Baeksang Arts Awards. Following two more film roles, in 2006’s <Detective ODD> and 2007’s <Wide Awake>, she focused on her television career. She returned to the big screen in 2013 in the documentary <Black Gospel> and also as the leader of a group of North Korean spies posing as a family in the comedy-drama <Red Family>, which was written and produced by KIM Ki-duk. Less