Ha Jung-woo
Birthday: Born in 1978-03-11 in Seoul, South Korea
Deathday: Alive
Ha Jung-woo (Korean: 하정우; born Kim Sung-hoon on March 11, 1978) is a South Korean actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. One of the highest grossing actors in South Korea, Ha's starring films have accumulated more than 100 million tickets. Only 3 other actors have reached this milestone, with Ha being nearly a decade younger than the rest when achieving this. His breakthrough to stardom came with the role in Na Hong-jin's serial killer film The Chaser (2008). One of the leading actors of his generation in Korean cinema, Ha showcased his versatility across films of various genres: road movie My Dear Enemy (2008), sports film Take Off (2009), action thriller The Yellow Sea (2010), gangster saga Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012), romantic comedy Love Fiction (2012), spy actioner The Berlin File (2013), and action thriller The Terror Live (2013). Ha is also known for his role as grim reaper Gang-rim in the fantasy action film Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds (2017) and its 2018 sequel. He made his directorial debut through the comedy film Fasten Your Seatbelt (2013), followed by Chronicle of a Blood Merchant (2015).
TV Credits
히트
Character: Kim Jae-yoon
H.I.T, also known as Homicide Investigation Team, is a 2007 South Korean television series starring Go Hyun-jung, Ha Jung-woo, Kim Jung-min, and Yoon Ji-min. It aired on MBC from March 19 to May 22, 2007 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. A police procedural crime drama that integrated crime scene analysis with action, suspense, and romance, H.I.T represented a departure from the usual Korean drama subjects of love and relationships....
아워게임: LG트윈스
Character: 나레이터
The LG Twins, a professional baseball team based in Seoul, has the largest fan base in Korea's sports history but is also considered an unfortunate team that has not raised a championship trophy for the last 28 years. The jewelry watch prize and the famous Japanese Awamori Soju (a premium alcohol beverage made from rice) that the GM from the 1994 winning team has vowed to present and open have become a legacy that no one has yet witnessed. There's even a painful nickname for LG Twins, "a team de...
프라하의 연인
Character: Ahn Dong-nam
Jae Hee, a diplomat in Prague, who is getting over a break-up, meets police detective Sang Hyun and romance blossoms. Jae Hee is the daughter of the Korean President and has to maintain a low profile. Jae Hee's ex, Young Woo and Sang Hyun's ex, Hye Joo make things complicated with secrets surrounding them. With the differences in social status, Jae Hee and Sang Hyun have to fight to see if the love that started in Prague can be overcome from what is trying to keep them apart....
청룡시리즈어워즈
Character: Self
The Blue Dragon Series Awards (BSA) is a new annual awards ceremony for original streaming content in South Korea....
안투라지
Character: Self
Young-Bin is a rising star actor in South Korea. He has been best friends with Ho-Jin, Joon and Geobook since they were all children. Young-Bin belongs to a management company with Kim Eun-Gab as the CEO....
나 혼자 산다
Character: Self
It can be a badge of honor to be “single.” “I Live Alone” is a documentary-style South Korean reality series that follows the members of a self-formed club called Rainbow, which is comprised of celebrities who are single and live alone....
두발로 티켓팅
Character: Self
The bros are on their foot to make the youth's dream trip a reality!...
수리남
Character: Kang In-gu
An ordinary entrepreneur joins a secret government mission to capture a Korean drug lord operating in South America....
Movie Credits
Time
Character: Ji-woo
Consumed by jealousy, a woman takes an extreme step and undergoes surgery for a new face. Although her lover of 2 years misses her, he falls in love with the new face, not knowing it's the same woman....
The Chaser
Character: Ji Young-min
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now....
No Boys, No Cry
Character: Hyung-gu
A couple of smugglers don't know what to do when one day their boss gives them a kidnapping job....
Take Off
Character: Cha Heon-tae
Cha Heon-tae, a Korean-American, was adopted with his sister to American parents. He appears on a Korean television program in search of his mother. Since Heon-tae is a trained alpine skier, he is approached by Coach Bang who wants to recruit members for a new national ski jumping team for the approaching 1998 Winter Olympics....
Never Forever
Character: Jihah
When an American woman begins a dangerous relationship with an attractive immigrant worker, in order to save her marriage, she finds her true self....
Our School's E.T.
Character: Doctor
Sung geun, a physical education teacher, is at risk of losing his job when the school decides it needs an English teacher instead of a PE teacher. Therefore, he starts to devise a plan to change his job as an English teacher....
My Dear Enemy
Character: Byoung-woon
Hee-soo is desperate for money and finds her ex-boyfriend who owes her money. He goes around to various ex-girlfriends to get cash and she trails along to make sure he does not cheat her....
The Client
Character: Kang Seong-Hee
Elite attorney Kang Seong-Hee goes up against a top prosecutor over a case involving a man accused of killing his wife....
Beastie Boys
Character: Jae-hyun
Two friends are involved in the male escort business. One starts an honest relationship with one of his clients. The other cheats on his girlfriend and has his many scams catch up to him....
Lobby
Character: Chang-wook
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The Fox Family
Character: Son fox
The Kumiho family circus in town -- and with it, apparently, a mysterious murderer. The members of motherless family aren’t helping their case with their strange remarks about humans and their initial performances, cavalcades of dismemberment and torrents of blood which terrify the local kids. Pretty soon, a dour, downbeat cop is on the tail of the plucky, bumbling Kumihos. Or rather, tails -- “kumiho” is the word for the fox spirits of Korean mythology, and this clan from Nam Mountain near Seou...
Like You Know It All
Character: Mr. Cho
A South Korean art house film director is first invited to serve on the panel of a film festival, then to guest lecture at a film school....
Hijack 1971
Character: Tae-in
Pilots Tae-in and Gyu-sik are set to fly to Gimpo. Under the guidance of flight attendant Ok-soon, passengers are busy boarding. However, shortly after takeoff, a homemade bomb explodes, turning the cabin into chaos....
Project 577
Character: Himself
Ha Jung Woo promised that if he won the best actor award 2 years in a row he would walk across South Korea. He did and the adventure begins....
The Unforgiven
Character: Yoo Tae-jeong
Some time after completing his mandatory military service, a man receives a distressed call from one of his subordinates, who's also an old classmate....
Mr. Gam’s Victory
Character: Kim Woo-yeol
A relief pitcher for the worst team in the league seizes the unlikely opportunity to work nine innings against the star starting pitcher of the league's best team when no one else wants to face him....
The Terror Live
Character: Yoon Young-hwa
A newsman discovers he's been rigged with a bomb after he has an exclusive interview with a terrorist who blew up a bridge....
The Yellow Sea
Character: Kim Gu-nam
A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him....
Nameless Gangster
Character: Choi Hyung-bae
A corrupt customs official joins forces with a vicious gangster to form the most powerful crime partnership in Busan....
Love Fiction
Character: Goo Joo-wol / Detective Ma Dong-wook
A writer looking for inspiration finds a perfect muse in a girl. After much work, he makes her his girlfriend. But then he starts to get tired of her....
The Berlin File
Character: Pyo Jong-seong
When an illicit arms deal goes bad, North Korean spy Pyo Jong-seong finds himself targeted not just by the South Koreans but also his own bosses....
Kundo: Age of the Rampant
Character: Dol Moo-chi
In 1862, amidst the rule of the late Joseon dynasty in Korea, a band of fighters named Kundo rise against the unjust authorities....
She's on Duty
Character: Detective Cho
A boisterous detective goes undercover in a high school in order to befriend the teenage daughter of a notorious gangster....
Assassination
Character: Hawaii Pistol
In Japanese-occupied Korea, three freedom fighters are assigned a mission to assassinate a genocidal military leader and his top collaborator. But the plan goes completely awry amidst double-crossings, counter-assassinations, and a shocking revelation about one of the assassins' past....
Breath
Character: Joo-yeon's Husband
A condemned prisoner slowly falls in love with the married female artist who decorates his prison cell. Jin is a convicted killer awaiting execution on Death Row; Yeon is a lonely artist locked in a loveless marriage....
Behind the Camera
Character: Self / Director Ha
An odd director leaves for Hollywood to shoot a film via Skype and cellphones. 14 actors and actresses are devastated after being dumped by the director. Now, the 14 actors and actress prepare for the counterattack....
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
Character: Heo Sam-gwan
Set in a village right after the Korean War, poor but good-hearted Heo Sam-gwan sets out to win the most beautiful girl in the village, Heo Ok-ran, by selling his blood to earn money. Years later, the two are happily married with three children, but their family undergoes a crisis when Sam-gwan's eldest son doesn't resemble him and rumors spread about the boy's paternity....
The Handmaiden
Character: Count Fujiwara
In 1930s Korea, a swindler and a young woman pose as a Japanese count and a handmaiden to seduce a Japanese heiress and steal her fortune....
Madeleine
Character: Joon-ho
The story follows the lives of two girls living together and their separate love lives as they struggle to find and maintain their new relationships. The movie mainly focuses on pretty girl Lee Hee-Jin. Hee-Jin is a hair stylist working at a salon when she meets an old classmate from junior high school. Kang Ji-Suk meets up with Hee-Jin when he arrives at her salon for a hair cut. The pair ends up deciding to try dating for a month to see how things go. All goes well in the beginning until Ji-Su...
Tunnel
Character: Lee Jung-soo
A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped leaving himself for the unexpected whilst emergency services struggle to help....
Forever the Moment
Character: Man at a Date
A look at the Korean women's handball team and their journey to the 2004 Summer Olympics. Their path was far from flowery, and they must overcome many obstacles before they can head over to compete....
Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds
Character: Gang-rim
Having died unexpectedly, firefighter Ja-hong is taken to the afterlife by 3 afterlife guardians. Only when he passes 7 trials over 49 days and proves he was innocent in human life, he’s able to reincarnate, and his 3 afterlife guardians are by his side to defend him in trial....
1987: When the Day Comes
Character: Prosecutor Choi Hwan
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eru...
Come Rain, Come Shine
Character: Other Man
A melodrama about a couple who have been married for five years, but who continue to play hide and seek with their true feelings....
Suh-Suh Pyoung, Slowly and Peacefully
Character: Narrator
A Christian documentary about a German missionary Elisabeth Johanna Shepping also known as the Joseon Teresa; her beautiful life, sincere service and sacrifice to life....
Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days
Character: Gang-rim
As the deceased soul Ja-hong and his three afterlife guardians prepare for their remaining trials for reincarnation, the guardians soon come face to face with the truth of their tragic time on Earth 1,000 years earlier....
Parallel Life
Character: Jang Soo Yeong
A young man finds out that he is living a completely identical life to another man who lived decades ago. And when his wife is murdered the same way as the previous man's, he decides to dig into the older case to find clues about who was the murderer this time....
Take Point
Character: Ahab
On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea's politician in an underground bunker below the Korean Demilitarized Zone. However, they get caught in the crossfire which causes tensions to escalate to the brink of World War III....
The Closet
Character: Sang-won
After moving into a new house, a young girl begins displaying strange and disturbing behavior until, one day, she disappears behind a closet. While the devastated father is left with no clue about his daughter's disappearance, an exorcist shows up to help....
Road to Boston
Character: Sohn Kee-chung
A rousing tale of the Korean athletes who ran the 1947 Boston International Marathon, the first international marathon held since World War II....
Ransomed
Character: Lee Min-jun
In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money....
Ashfall
Character: Jo In-chang
A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain....
Miss & Mrs. Cops
Character: Motel Staff
Once a legendary detective and a new mom, Mi-young, now works a desk job. But when overenthusiastic newbie Ji-hye is assigned to Mi-young's civil complaints team, the two female cops get caught up in a serious criminal case that triggers an action-filled comedic investigation....
Nocturnal
Character: Min-tae
A mystery thriller about what happens when a detective finds out that a case he is working on resembles a novel while investigating the death of a best-selling author's husband....
Fasten Your Seatbelt
Character: Incheon Airport traffic controller (voice)
Hallyu star Ma Joon-Gyu boards an airplane that will take him from Tokyo to Seoul, but the plane is soon swept up into a typhoon and faces danger....