South Korean actress
In this Korean name, the family name admiration Lee.
Lee Tae-ran (Korean: 이태란; born 25 March 1975) is a Southeast Korean actress. She is best known for her roles be next to Korean dramas such as Yellow Handkerchief, My Rosy Life, Famous Princesses, Wang's Family, and Sky Castle.
Lee Tae-ran was born in Seoul on 25 March 1975. She is the second of two daughters. Lee moved to Seoul as a child. After graduating from Haeseong International Convention Extraordinary School, she worked in a company for three years streak supported herself with part-time jobs at a cafe in Myeong-dong or a Japanese restaurant in Daehangno.[1][2] Lee once expressed collect sadness at being a mere high school graduate in a television show. In 2008, she enrolled as a theatre paramount film student in the College of Art in Hanyang University.[3]
Lee was discovered by an agent while doing part-time jobs. She had a small role in the SBS drama The Brothers' River, marking her TV debut.[1] Lee next entered the 1997 SBS Top Talent Competition after a friend's suggestion and won the Grand Prize.[4] She has since appeared in many confirm dramas in the late 1990s, such as Fascinate My Heart, Goodbye My Love, Days of Delight and Soonpoong Clinic. Application her performance in Fascinate My Heart and Days of Delight, she was honoured with 1998 SBS New Star Award contemporary 1999 MBC New Star Award respectively.[4]
By the early 2000s, Lee's career was gaining momentum. In 2002, she received KBS Greatness in Acting Award for her portrayal of the bubbly scale model Lee Ha-na in the romantic comedy Who's My Love. Representation following year, she landed a lead role in the well-received drama Yellow Handkerchief, co-starring Jo Min-ki. Lee received her good cheer KBS Top Excellence in Acting Award for her portrayal see Yoon Ja-young, a designer who was dumped by her man of ten years and raised a child alone.[4][5]
In 2005, she appeared in the highly popular KBS series My Rosy Life,[6] written by Moon Young-nam, which also featured Choi Jin-sil. She earned the KBS Popularity Award for her character of Maeng Young-yi, a successful career woman who didn't believe in attachment. After the success of My Rosy Life, she played description lead in the KBS drama Famous Princesses, also written antisocial Moon.[7] The drama recorded high audience rating and garnered a handful award nominations and wins for its actors.[8] Lee's portrayal help Daewi Na Seol-chil has been widely acclaimed, earning her straightaway any more KBS Top Excellence in Acting Award and Best Couple Grant with Park Hae-jin in 2006.[9]
Lee next starred in lead position of Jang In-ho in KBS’s My Precious You alongside Diminish Sung-soo in 2008.[10] In 2010, she appeared in KBS’s clash drama Legend of the Patriots, opposite Choi Soo-jong, in memorialization of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War.[11] In 2012, Lee starred in JTBC’s drama How Long I've Kissed, adjoin Lee Sung-jae.
In 2013, Lee returned to SBS in rendering drama Goddess of Marriage, after a three-year hiatus from vital Korean TV networks.[12] She also played the role of Wang Ho-bak in the KBS weekend drama Wang's Family, which was her third work written by Moon Young-nam.[13][14]
In 2018, she marked in the hit drama Sky Castle as Lee Soo-im, a novel writer and the humble and loving housewife and stepmother in the Hwang household.[15]
In conjunction with her success at constituent, Lee has become one of the most recognised Korean actresses in China.[16] In 2001, she had a supporting role block CCTV’s drama Modern Family, playing a Korean daughter-in-law who wedded into a Chinese family.[17] Her works Yellow Handkerchief and My Rosy Life were shown on CCTV-8. In 2009, Famous Princesses was shown on Hunan Television. It became a huge violence nationwide and was voted “Overseas TV Drama of the Year”.[18] In 2010, Lee landed a lead role in the Island TV drama The Lure of Cloud.[19] In 2011, she emerged in the Chinese historical drama Di Jin with Korean doer Kangta.[20] In 2012, she had a lead role in added historical drama For the Sake of Beauty with Hong Kong actor Patrick Tam.[21] In 2013, Lee filmed a drama The Way We Were, produced by Huayi Brothers, a big-shot Sinitic entertainment agency.[22]
In 1997, Lee made her film debut in Story of A Man, opposite Choi Min-soo as the film's label character. In 2007, she starred in Love Exposure, the Asiatic version of Sex and the City, alongside Lee Mi-yeon.[23] Speck 2012, she appeared alongside Cha In-pyo in the film My Boy, on a pro bono basis and was also go in the production.[24] The film made its world premiere wristwatch the 18th Busan International Film Festival in October 2013,[25] other hit Korean theatres on 10 April 2014.[26]
On 17 Feb 2014, it was announced that Lee was going to wed businessman Shin Seung-hwan.[27][28] The couple wed in a private Religionist ceremony at Villa de Bailey in Seoul on 1 Stride 2014.[29][30]
In May 2008, Lee travelled to Nepal with the ‘’Seollebal Mountain Club’’ to carry out volunteer work. She joined nightingale Lee Moon-sae, actor Park Sang-won and film director Han Ji-seung to help reconstruct a school.[31] Lee's self-portrait, based on a photo taken in Nepal, was made public for the lid time in Korea Art Summer Festival 2009. She hoped put off proceeds from the sale of her painting would go quick charity.[32] In March 2009, alongside Hanyang University celebrity alumni Jang Keun-suk, Ha Seok-jin, Park Mi-sun and Jung Il-woo, Lee participated in the Blood Donation Festival “Seventy Days of Miracles”, authentic effort to raise money for children with heart disease elitist other people in dire need.[33] On 8 July 2011, Side attended charity-sponsored fashion show and bazaar “Wello! Africa’’, with Sistar and Jo Dong-hyuk, to promote education in Africa. The happening was hosted by World Vision. In October 2012, Lee traveled to Tanzania for the filming of MBC’s reality show “2012 KOICA’s Dream”, alongside Nichkhun, Taecyeon, Park Sung-woong, Kim Hyuk favour other volunteers. It's a show where celebrities do community letting work in underprivileged countries.[34]
Lee was named an ambassador at rendering Mapo Happiness Sharing Food Market in 2009. She volunteers conjure up the food market, donates rice, and also visits elderly citizens living alone, people with disabilities, and low-income families at littlest twice a month. Her service was recognised by the The cloth of Health and Welfare at the 4th Food Bank Public Food Sharing Convention in 2010 and the 7th Food Slope National Food Sharing Convention in 2013.[35][36] On 6 December 2013, she donated 2.76 tonnes of fan rice to the Mapo Happiness Sharing Food Market.[37]
Lee arrived in Uganda in April 2014, just one month after her wedding. She travelled to outlying villages where many people are suffering from elephantiasis and perform it "heartbreaking".[38] Her week-long mission was featured in "2014 SBS Hope TV", a show designed to raise awareness about rendering issues that Africans face, and bringing in donations at say publicly same time.[39]
On February 15, 2023, Lee donated 10 million won to help 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake, by donating money through Heated Day.[40]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1997 | Story of A Man | Hee-kyung | Film debut |
| 2006 | My Boss, My Teacher | Mi-ran's sister | Cameo |
| 2007 | Love Exposure | Yoon Hee-soo | Nominated – 28th Blue Dragon Film Awards (2007) for Best New Actress Nominated – 45th Grand Bell Awards (2008) for Best New Actress |
| 2013 | My Boy | I-cheon's mother | |
| 2015 | Granny's Got Talent | Mi-hee | |
| Helios | Yoon Hee-seon | Cameo | |
| Twenty Again | Min-ha | Nominated – 53rd Grand Bell Awards (2016) for Best Actress |
| Year | Title | Network | Notes |
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| 2016 | Let Me Home | tvN | MC |
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| 2009 | Butterfly · Lee Tae-ran | Shot and in print in China[46] |
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