Born in 1994, Jun Jongseo spent part of her childhood in Canada before moving back to Korea and entering an art high school with a specialization in drama and film. She then entered the Film Art College of Sejong University, but she eventually decided to stop after a year as she didn’t feel particularly interested in the kind of lectures that were offered there. This didn’t mean that she was to give up acting, however. She took private acting classes and spent a couple of...More

Born in 1994, Jun Jongseo spent part of her childhood in Canada before moving back to Korea and entering an art high school with a specialization in drama and film. She then entered the Film Art College of Sejong University, but she eventually decided to stop after a year as she didn’t feel particularly interested in the kind of lectures that were offered there. This didn’t mean that she was to give up acting, however. She took private acting classes and spent a couple of years contacting talent agencies. Just three days after she finally signed with a talent agent, she went to her very first open audition, and one try was all it took for her to land her first role, one of the main characters in Lee Changdong’s much-anticipated <BURNING> (2018). Lee later explained he never doubted that she was the perfect choice for this role. Invited to the Cannes Film Festival, this film adaptation of Murakami Haruki’s short story Barn Burning directly propelled Jeon to stardom, with the Hollywood Reporter later naming her as one of the “15 International Breakout Talents of 2018”. Jun impressed again with her performance as a loner who suffers physical and psychological abuse until she turns to murder in the time-bending thriller <CALL>, which debuted as a Netflix Original. Unanimously praised by the critics, she won Best Actress in Film from the Baeksang Arts Awards. Jeon continued to make enormous strides in making a name for herself on the global stage; for her third film credit, she was chosen by Iranian American director Ana Lily Amirpour of <A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night> fame to play the lead role of a girl with supernatural powers who escapes from a psychiatric hospital in <Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon>, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival as part of the official competition. Jeon made her debut on the smaller screen by starring as Tokyo in the Korean remake of the Spanish heist drama series <La Casa de Papel>, and in 2021 she moved to romcom fare when she received top billing in the film <Nothing Serious>.Less