UHM Ji-won proved her potential as an actress by starring in <Mutt Boy> directed by KWAK Kyung-taek and landed a lead role in <The Scarlet Letter>, a thriller movie. Despite her unlimited potential, she had yet to come out of her shell to become a real actress. But it was director HONG Sangsoo, known for his philosophical questions to daily lives, who led her to the path to a character actress. She nonchalantly played a pretentious woman in <A Tale of Cinema>...More

UHM Ji-won proved her potential as an actress by starring in <Mutt Boy> directed by KWAK Kyung-taek and landed a lead role in <The Scarlet Letter>, a thriller movie. Despite her unlimited potential, she had yet to come out of her shell to become a real actress. But it was director HONG Sangsoo, known for his philosophical questions to daily lives, who led her to the path to a character actress. She nonchalantly played a pretentious woman in <A Tale of Cinema> switching from a sheepish, elegant lady to a hysterical woman. She bared her femininity in <Traces of Love>, which made a sentimental revisit to the collapse of Sampoong department store and <Scout>, which juxtaposed the budding years of the Korean baseball history with the Gwangju student uprising in the mid 1980s. Her individuality shined in <Tale of Cinema> and <Like You Know It All> directed by HONG Sangsoo. In particular, she drew praises for her realistic portrayal of a neurotic woman in <Like You Know It All> who was ladylike at one moment and the next splenetic over nothing. Over the next few years, UHM specialized in comedy, appearing in the romcom <Romantic Debtors>, the ensemble comedy <Foxy Festival> (both 2010) and the early 2013 hit gangster shaman comedy <Man on the Edge>. Later that year, she drew wide acclaim as she took on a different image as one of the leads in LEE Joon-ik’s <Hope>. She took Best Actress honors at the Korean Association of Film Critics Awards for her part in the film. A series of thrillers followed for actress, starting with Colonial Era chiller <The Silenced> and murder thriller <The Phone> in 2015, before appearing alongside KONG Hyo-jin in the kidnap thriller <Missing Child> a year later.
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