Lee Jung-jae (born December 15, 1972) is a South Korean actor and
model. He debuted as a fashion model, then began his acting career on
television, notably in the campus series Feelings (1994) and the
iconic drama Sandglass (1995). After his acting breakthrough in An
Affair (1998), Lee's film career took off. He has starred in a variety
of film genres, among them romantic films such as Il Mare (2000) and
Over the Rainbow (2002), melodrama Last Present (2001), comedy Oh
Brothers (2003), action films The Last Witness (2001) and Typhoon
(2005), heist film The Thieves (2012), film noir New World (2013), and
period film The Face Reader (2013). He won Best Actor awards at the
Blue Dragon Film Awards for City of the Rising Sun (1999), and at the
Fantasporto Director's Week for The Housemaid (2010).Lee Jung-jae was
discovered by designer Ha Yong-soo while he was working at a café in
Apgujeong, then worked as a fashion model for a number of years. Upon
making his acting debut with the 1993 TV drama Dinosaur Teacher, Lee
became a star practically overnight, and was almost always cast in
lead roles thereafter. A year later, he received favorable reviews for
his first big screen role in Bae Chang-ho's The Young Man, but it was
the 1994 hit campus drama Feelings that made him a household name.In
1995, what was supposed to be a small supporting role as the heroine's
silent, devoted bodyguard in ratings behemoth Sandglass turned Lee
into a national heartthrob, such that his screen time was increased
throughout the series' run.Lee's acting breakthrough would come in
late 1998 in the award-winning film An Affair by E J-yong. This was
followed up by another success, City of the Rising Sun, for which he
won Best Actor at the Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Korean
Association of Film Critics Awards. Lee Jung-jae Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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