Born in 1991, WON Jin-ah dreamed of being an actor but didn’t pass the entry exam 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 fulfilling her dream. She first appeared in the short movie <A Game of Catch> (2015) after passing an audition, soon fol...More

Born in 1991, WON Jin-ah dreamed of being an actor but didn’t pass the entry exam 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 fulfilling her dream. She first appeared in the short movie <A Game of Catch> (2015) after passing an audition, soon followed by <Secondhand, Paul> (2015). She then landed a minor role in KIM Jee-woon’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 at the APAN Star Awards. She was last seen as a supporting character in <Money> (2018) and is set to star in <Long Live the King> (2019).Less