JANG
HYE-JIN

Jang Hye-jin is a South Korean actor born in 1975. Sources differ on her exact birth date, so this profile gives the year confirmed by the Korean Film Council.

She studied acting at the Korea National University of Arts and made her film debut in If It Snows on Christmas (1998). Her subsequent work included smaller parts in Secret Sunshine and The World of Us.

Jang appeared in Adulthood before taking a leading role in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019). She played Chung-sook, the mother of the Kim family, whose work becomes entangled with the wealthy Parks.

The cast of Parasite received the Screen Actors Guild award for outstanding performance by a motion-picture cast. Jang’s work after the film has included Korean television dramas such as Crash Landing on You and Birthcare Center.

Her film and television credits cover a range of family stories and dramatic roles. The titles linked on FLM.RED come from its catalogue and do not represent her complete work.