Jang Dongyun, born in 1992, wound up working as an actor in an unusual way; while he was heading for a career in finance, he suddenly made the local news in 2015 after contributing to the arrest of an armed robber in a convenience store. After he went viral on social media as the “handsome college student who caught a robber”, a talent agent took notice of his newfound fame and offered him a contract. The following year, Jang made his acting debut in the web series <Ga...More

Jang Dongyun, born in 1992, wound up working as an actor in an unusual way; while he was heading for a career in finance, he suddenly made the local news in 2015 after contributing to the arrest of an armed robber in a convenience store. After he went viral on social media as the “handsome college student who caught a robber”, a talent agent took notice of his newfound fame and offered him a contract. The following year, Jang made his acting debut in the web series <Game Development Girls> before moving to television at the turn of the year, playing the male lead in the legal drama series <Solomon’s Perjury> (2016-2017). He was then cast in the youth drama series <School 2017> and the medical series <A Poem a Day> (2018). His debut in films made headlines, starring alongside Lee Nayoung in the opening film of the 2018 Busan International Film Festival, Jéro Yun’s movie <Beautiful Days> (2018), earning a Grand Bell Award nomination in the New Actor category. He gained wider recognition after appearing in the hit historical drama series <Mr. Sunshine> (2018) and receiving top billing in the historical drama <The Tale of Nokdu> (2019), winning a couple of television industry awards for good measure. He was later cast in <RUN BOY RUN> (2020). In 2021, he lent his voice to the titular character in the animated biopic <Chun Tae-il>, and in 2022 he starred in the gorefest genre film <Project Wolf Hunting> as one of the criminals being extradited from the Philippines to KoreaLess