Son Ye-jin손예진

Son Ye-jin (손예진; real name Son Eon-jin, 손언진) is a South Korean actress, born on January 11, 1982, in Daegu, and represented by MSTeam Entertainment.¹ Her first screen credit was a voice role in the 2000 film Secret Tears, and a leading role in the TV drama Delicious Proposal (2001) won her Best New Actress at that year's MBC Drama Awards.¹² In 2003 she starred in Kwak Jae-yong's film The Classic, which won her Best New Actress at both the Baeksang Arts Awards and the Grand Bell Awards, and in the TV drama Summer Scent.¹² Her 2004 film A Moment to Remember sold more than two million tickets in Korea and set box office records in Japan.¹

Her four Baeksang acting wins are Best New Actress – Film for The Classic (2003), Best Actress – Television for Alone in Love (2007), and Best Actress – Film for My Wife Got Married (2009) and The Last Princess (2017).² That puts her joint seventh, one of twelve performers with four, on DabPop's ranking of actors with the most Baeksang acting wins.³ My Wife Got Married also won her Best Actress at the 2008 Blue Dragon Film Awards, and she won Best Actress at the Grand Bell Awards for The Pirates (2014) and The Last Princess (2016). Her awards list records her as the youngest person to have won Best Actress at all three of Korea's major film awards (Baeksang, Grand Bell and Blue Dragon), by age 34 and for different roles.² The Pirates drew more than 8.6 million admissions.¹

On television she starred in JTBC's Something in the Rain (2018) and played the heiress Yoon Se-ri in tvN's Crash Landing on You (사랑의 불시착, 2019–2020). Its finale drew a 21.7% nationwide rating, the highest of any tvN drama at the time.⁵ The series was made under a live-shoot system, with filming ending three days before the last episode aired, as DabPop's account of how a K-drama gets made describes.⁴ In 2025 she played Lee Mi-ri in Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다), which premiered in competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2025.⁶ The role won her a second Blue Dragon Best Actress award, at the 2025 ceremony.²⁶ Her latest series, Netflix's period drama The Scandal (스캔들), in which she plays Lady Cho, was released on September 18, 2026.⁸ It was number one on Netflix's TV Top 10 in South Korea in its first week and reached number three on the global non-English TV list in its second, with 2.8 million views.⁷