Yoona윤아

Yoona (윤아; real name Lim Yoon-a, 임윤아) is a South Korean singer and actress, born on May 30, 1990. After five years of training following a 2002 SM Entertainment open audition, she debuted in August 2007 as a member of Girls' Generation, the girl group formed by SM Entertainment.¹ Wikipedia says her acting breakthrough was the KBS series You Are My Destiny (2008), her first lead role, which won her Best New Actress at the 45th Baeksang Arts Awards.¹²

Her later television work includes The K2 (2016), Big Mouth (2022) and JTBC's King the Land (2023), which was No. 1 on Netflix's global non-English TV list for three weeks.¹² In film she appeared in Confidential Assignment (2017), Exit (2019), her first leading film role, and Confidential Assignment 2: International (2022), which Wikipedia lists among the highest-grossing films in South Korea.¹ She released a debut extended play, A Walk to Remember, on May 30, 2019, and it reached No. 3 on the Gaon Album Chart.¹

Her latest lead is tvN's Bon Appétit, Your Majesty (폭군의 셰프), which began on August 23, 2025: its September 28, 2025 finale drew 17.107% nationwide, and it spent 10 weeks in Netflix's global non-English TV Top 10, two of them at No. 1.² DabPop's table of luxury ambassadors lists her as Miu Miu's first global ambassador, from October 2021, a date taken from Wikipedia, and she appears in DabPop's one-time editorial list of 2026 K-drama actresses, an unranked pick that is not a ranking or a measurement.²³