2010
The Servant
Appears in the period film.
FLM.REDCHO
YEO-JEONG
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A career across Korean film and television
The South Korean actor behind Yeon-kyo in Parasite.
Seoul, South Korea
From screen roles to Parasite
Cho Yeo-jeong is a South Korean actor born on 10 February 1981. Her agency records her debut as a magazine model in 1997, followed by work across television and film.
The period film The Servant (2010) brought Cho wider attention in South Korea. She followed it with television work including I Need Romance and the film The Concubine.
Her performance in Obsessed (2014) earned a supporting-actress award from the Korean Association of Film Critics. The role was one of several in a career moving between different genres.
In Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019), Cho played Yeon-kyo, the mother of the wealthy Park family. Her performance won the Blue Dragon Film Award for best actress, and she shared a Screen Actors Guild cast award with the ensemble.
Her later work includes the television drama High Class and the film Hidden Face. The credits linked on FLM.RED come from its own catalogue and do not represent her complete work.
Selected performances
2011
I Need Romance
Stars in the television series.
2014
Obsessed
Wins a Korean critics’ supporting-actress award.
2019
Parasite
Plays Yeon-kyo and wins a Blue Dragon award.
Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.
Films in FLM.RED
Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.
Sources & image notes
- High Entertainment — official profile
- Korean Film Council — career and awards
- Festival de Cannes — Parasite cast and character
- IMDb — selected credits
- iQIYI — biography
Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.