Park Ah-in (; born 12 February 1985) is a South Korean actress. She is an alumna of Chung-Ang University, Department of Theater and Film, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Theater Studies. She made her acting debut in 2006 in the horror film Forbidden Floor and since then has appeared in a number of films and television series, including Loner (2008), A Gentleman's Dignity (2012), Descendants of the Sun (2016), Vagabond (2019), Never Twice (2019) and Kkondae Intern (2020).
Early life and marriage Park was born in Busan, South Korea, and graduated from the Department of Theater and Film at Chung-Ang University. She got married on November 7, 2020, at the Oksu-dong Cathedral in Seongdong District, Seoul, her spouse being unrelated to the entertainment industry.
Career Park started her acting career with the horror film Forbidden Floor in 2006.
In 2008, she took on the role of policewoman Hanakoin in a stage play Atami Murder Case organized by the Chung-Ang University Performing Film Arts Center.
In 2016, she was cast in the award-winning and popular show of the year Descendants of the Sun as Kim Eun-ji, a thoracic surgery specialist. The same year she also appeared in the mystery thriller Babysitter and another award-winning tvN drama The Good Wife.
In 2018, she starred in tvN's historical romance Mr. Sunshine, where she portrayed a woman who is unable to bear a child so she is regularly abused by her husband. The drama was praised by Park Jin-hai of The Korea Times for its strong female characters.
In 2019, she played Lily, an assassin in the spy crime-thriller Vagabond. For her portrayal of an assassin, she was nominated in the Best New Actress category for SBS Drama Awards. In the same year she also portrayed a Korean version of Paris Hilton as the granddaughter of the chairman and founder of Guseong Hotel, where she also is the head of marketing, in MBC's comedy drama Never Twice.
In 2020, Park appeared as Tak Jeong-eun, a 5-year contract worker of the Marketing Department at Joon Soo Foods, in Kkondae Intern, an MBC TV drama broadcast from May - June, 2020. In the same year she made her first variety show appearance on SBS's comedy show Park-Jang's LOL.
Filmography Films
Year Title Role NotesRef. 2006 Forbidden Floor 2008 Loner 2010 Outlaw Woman with no brain 2012 Project 577 Self 2013 Top Star Won-joon's female junior colleague 2 Friends 2 Female singer 2019 Hoop It Up Yoo-jin
Television series
Year Title Role NotesRef. 2010 Bad Man Da-rim 2012 A Gentleman's Dignity Attorney Kang 2014 Mama Suzy Discovery of Love Da-yeon 2016 Descendants of the Sun Kim Eun-ji (Thoracic Surgery Specialist) Babysitter The Good Wife Lee Yeon-joo – lawyer 2017 Manhole Park Young-joo 2018 Mr. Sunshine Go Ae-soon 2018-19 Clean with Passion for Now Lee Young-eun, woman in office cleaned by Oh-sol (Ep. 3) Special appearance My Strange Hero Yang Min-ji 2019 He Is Psychometric Welcome to Waikiki 2 Da-young (Ep. 5) Special appearance My Absolute Boyfriend Vagabond Lily, an assassin hired by Jessica 2019-20 Never Twice Na Hae-ri 2020 Kkondae Intern Tak Jung-eun Sweet Home The girl next door Guest appearance 2021 Moonshine Woon Shim 2024 Wedding Impossible Choi Seung-ah 2026 Sold Out on You
Television show Year Title HangulNotesRef. 2020Park-Jang's LOL박장데소Debut
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Work Result Ref.2019SBS Drama Awards Best Supporting Team -with Park Ah-in, Choi Dae-chul, Kim Jung-hyun and Moon Jeong-hee Vagabond Best New Actress
References
External links
Park Ah-in on Daum