Moon Jeong-hee (born January 12, 1976) is a South Korean actress. She has won Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Deranged (2012) and Best Supporting Actress award in Buil Film Awards for her performance in Cart (2014).
Early life and education Moon Jeong-hee graduated from the Korea National University of Arts with a degree in Theatre Studies. She made her theater debut in a 1998 staging of Blood Brothers.
Career Though she hasn't found full-fledged stardom, the actress has built a solid body of work alternating leading and supporting roles. 2012 hit Deranged was her first starring role in a commercial film, for which she won Best Supporting Actress at the 33rd Blue Dragon Film Awards.
Moon has also drawn positive reviews for her performances in Hide and Seek (2013), Cart (2014), and Mama (2014).
Other activities Having learned salsa in middle school, Moon became an accomplished salsa dancer. She has worked as a salsa dancing teacher in between projects, and can also do jazz dancing and the pansori.
Moon is fluent in three languages - Korean, English and French. She was named the goodwill ambassador of international children's rights group Safe Kids Korea in 2010.
In 2012 she hosted the closing ceremony of the Jeonju International Film Festival.
In 2021, she was selected as jury member for Bucheon Choice Features section of 25th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival held in July.
Filmography
Film Year Title Role Notes2001 I Wish I Had a Wife Take Care of My Cat Team leader Falling Season short film 2002 Three Hyun-joo segment: "Memories" 2003 Wishing Stairs Dance teacher2004 Dance with the Wind Ji-yeon Low LifeHong Su-bi 2005 My Girl and I Soon-im / Soon-im's daughter2006 Running Wild Yoon Jung-min Les Formidables Female singer 2007 Big Bang Han Kyung-soon 2009 Why Did You Come to My House?2010 Troubleshooter Oh Kyung-shin Cafe Noir Mi-yeon 1 2011 Sorry, Thanks adult Bo-eun (cameo) segment: "My Younger Brother" 2012 Deranged Kyung-soon 2013 Hide and Seek Joo-hee 2014 Cart Hye-mi Dad for Rent Ji-soo 2016 Pandora Jung-hye 2018 Seven Years of Night Hyun-soo's wife Dark Figure of Crime Kim Soo-min Special appearance2020 The Day I Died: Unclosed Case Jeong-mi 2022Limit Hyejin 2023 Noryang: Deadly SeaLady Bang 2025 The Match Jung Mi-hwa
Television drama Year Title Role 2003 Nursery Story 2005 Shin Don Hye-bi2006 Alone in Love Jung Yoo-kyung Singles Game Seo Hye-jin Lovers Sang-taek's wife2007 A Happy Woman Lee Ji-sook Air City Seo Myung-woo2008 My Sweet Seoul Nam Yoo-hee Daughter-in-Law Lee Soon-jung2009 Empress Cheonchu Empress Munhwa Father's House Lee Hyun-jae2010 Oh! My Lady Han Jung-ah KBS Drama Special:"Cutting Off the Heart" Yoon Sun-young2011 I Believe in Love Kim Young-hee A Thousand Days' Promise Jang Myung-hee My One And Only Cha Do-young 2012 KBS Drama Special:"Still Picture" Seo Eun-soo 2013 The Firstborn Park Jung-shim (cameo) 2014 Mama Seo Ji-eun 2015 Sweet, Savage Family Kim Eun-ok 2019 Vagabond Jessica 2020 When the Weather Is Fine Shim Myeong-yeo Mystic Pop-up Bar Hyun-ok (Cameo, Ep. 9) Search Kim Da-jung 2021 Times Kim Young-joo
Web series Year Title Role 2024 The 8 Show 5th Floor
Variety show Year Title Network Notes 2009 A Night of Cultural Walks KBS2 2011 Brunch tvN MC
Theater Year Title Role 1998 Blood Brothers 2001 The Rocky Horror Show 2003 Grease Sandy 2009 New Kang Full's Soonjung Manhwa
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Nominated work Result 2008 SBS Drama Awards Producer's Award My Sweet Seoul, Daughter-in-Law 2009 Asia Latin Culture Festival Lifetime Achievement Award KBS Drama Awards Best Supporting Actress Empress Cheonchu 2011 I Believe in Love, My One and Only 2012 1st K-Drama Star Awards Excellence Award, Actress My One And Only KBS Drama Awards Best Actress in a One-Act/Special Drama Still Picture 49th Grand Bell AwardsBest Supporting ActressDeranged 33rd Blue Dragon Film AwardsBest Supporting Actress 2013 49th Baeksang Arts Awards Best Supporting Actress 50th Grand Bell Awards Best ActressHide and Seek 34th Blue Dragon Film AwardsBest Leading Actress 201450th Baeksang Arts Awards Best Actress (Film) 34th Golden Cinema Festival Special Jury Prize 22nd Korea Culture and Entertainment Awards Best Actress Dad for Rent 3rd APAN Star Awards Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries Mama MBC Drama Awards Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Special Project Drama 2015 51st Baeksang Arts Awards Best Actress (TV) Best Supporting Actress (Film)Cart 24th Buil Film Awards Best Supporting Actress 36th Blue Dragon Film AwardsBest Supporting Actress MBC Drama Awards Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries Sweet, Savage Family 2019 SBS Drama Awards Best Supporting Actress Vagabond
References
External links
Moon Jeong-hee at Prain TPC