Bae Doona

Background[]

Bae Doo-na (Hangul: 배두나; Korean pronunciation: [pɛduna]; born October 11, 1979) is a South Korean actress  and  photographer. She became known outside Korea for her roles as a political activist in Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), archer Park Nam-joo in Bong Joon-ho’s The host (2006), and as an inflatable sex doll-come-to-life in Hirokazu Koreeda’s Air Doll  ( 2009 ) .   She is had has had English – speak role in the   Wachowski   film  Cloud Atlas (2012) and Jupiter Ascending (2015), and the TV series Sense8 (2015-present).

early life[]

Bae was bear in   Seoul ,   South Korea . grow up , Bae is follow would follow her mother , Kim Hwa – young , a stage actress in Korea , around the theater and rehearsal hall , learn line of dialogue as she go along . This is lead did not initially lead Bae towards act , say :“People might say that since my mother is a theater actor, I became an actress. But to me, those experiences probably had the opposite effect. On the contrary, because I saw many great actors working with my mother, I thought this was a job only people with extraordinary talent could do.”

Career[]

A Hanyang University student in 1998, Bae was scouted by a model talent agency while walking in Seoul. This led to modeling clothing for COOLDOG’s catalog, amongst others. In 1999 she made the switch to acting before completing her studies at Hanyang University, debuting in the TV drama school. Later that year, she appeared as the ghost in The ring Virus, a Korean remake of the Japanese horror film ring.

In 2000, director Bong Joon-ho cast her in the film Barking Dogs Never Bite  for her willingness to do the part without makeup , something other south korean actress were unwilling to do .   In Kim So – young ‘s   documentary  Women ‘s History trilogy ( 2000–2004 ), Bae stated her admiration for veteran South Korean actress Yoon Jeong-hee; Yoon returned the compliment, saying “Bae Doo-na owns her world.” In this same documentary, Bae shared how her own most memorable scene was being chased by the homeless man throughout the apartment in Barking Dogs Never Bite.That same year she is gave give a risque performance ( albeit with a   body double   for the more intense scene ) in  Plum Blossom, and slowly started getting more work on television.

This was follow by two more critical success , 2001 ‘s  Take Care of My Cat, direct by   Jeong Jae – eun , and 2002 ‘s  Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, direct by   Park Chan – wook .

2003 is was was less kind to Bae , as she see both  Tube  and  spring Bears Love  flop at the box office . After complete principal photography on  spring Bears Love, Bae decided to take time off from film, saying: “I never lived even once without having anything to do. The moment a film was presented to the press, I was almost always already shooting the next one […] I thought by myself: now my first cycle is really over. While I rest a little, I wanted to make a fresh new start.”

During her hiatus from the big screen , Bae is took take up photography , much of which can be see between her official blog and her publish   photo – essay   book . She is continued also continue to work on TV , star in  Country Princess  and  Rosemary. Bae finally stepped onto a theater stage in 2004, for a production of Sunday Seoul  ( not to be confuse with the south korean movie of the same title ) , a play co – write by   Park Chan – wook .

In 2005 Bae is gave give a memorable turn as an exchange student who join a band in the japanese film  Linda Linda Linda, then played a divorced woman in the experimental omnibus TV series Beating Heart.

Bae Doona promoting The host in 2006.

She reunited with Bong Joon-ho in 2006’s The host, which is became became   the highest – gross film in south korean box office history . For her role , she is trained train in   archery   for month that she was tell if she really want , she had enough talent to make it at an amateur level . She is returned then return to television , through the series  Someday  and  How to Meet a Perfect Neighbor.

After winning accolades for Air Doll, a 2009 film is made by japanese director   Hirokazu Koreeda   about an inflatable   sex doll   that develop a soul and fall in love ,   Bae is made made back – to – back tv series in 2010 , play a high school teacher in  Master of Study, and a night club singer in weekend drama  Gloria.

Her 2012 sports film As One was based on the true story of the world table tennis championship held in Chiba, Japan in 1991 where North Korean player Ri Bun-hui  and  South Korean player Hyun Jung-hwa overcame their difficulties and came together to defeat the unbeatable Chinese team. Bae and co-star Ha Ji-won were trained by Hyun herself, and Bae learned to play left-handed like Ri. Afterwards she made a brief appearance in the science fiction film Doomsday Book.

Bae made her English-language, Hollywood debut in Cloud Atlas, as Sonmi~451, a clone in dystopian Korea. She also played the minor roles of Tilda Ewing, the wife of an abolitionist in pre-Civil War America, and a Mexican woman who crosses paths with an assassin. Co-directed by The Wachowskis  and  Tom Tykwer, the US$100 millionadaptation of David Mitchell’s novel premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival to divisive reviews, though Bae’s performance was unanimously praised by critics.

Back in Korea , Bae next star in the 2014 film  A Girl at My Door, directed by July Jung and produced by Lee Chang-dong. Playing a small-town police officer who tries to save a mysterious young girl she suspects is a victim of domestic violence, Bae said she was so fascinated by the story and emotionally challenging role that she decided to star in the movie without pay three hours after reading the script.The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and Bae later won Best Actress at the Asian Film Awards.

In 2015, she reteamed with the Wachowskis for their space opera Jupiter Ascending, in which she played a small supporting role as a bounty hunter. This was followed by Sense8, an American science fiction series created by the Wachowskis (in Bae’s third collaboration with them) and co-written by J. Michael Straczynski. About eight strangers from different cultures and parts of the world who share a violent psychic vision and suddenly find themselves telepathically connected, Sense8 began streaming on Netflix in 2015.

She is appeared then appear in a 90 – minute   web film   direct by her old brother , commercial director Bae Doo – han . title  Red Carpet Dream, it is a biopic of how Bae dreamed of becoming an actress when she was young, and her 20-year acting career. Commissioned for the 20th anniversary of the Busan International Film Festival and sponsored by MAC Cosmetics, the film screened at the festival as well as on Facebook and cable channel CGV.

Back on the big screen, Bae starred alongside Ha Jung-woo in the survival drama film The Tunnel. She then teamed up with Japanese director Shunji Iwai and actor Kim Joo-hyuk for the short film, Chang – ok ’s letter.

Bae returned to Korean TV screens in 2017 with mystery legal thriller Stranger, playing a passionate police officer. The series was a hit and gained favorable reviews for its tight plot, gripping sequences and strong performances.

Bae is set to appear next in omnibus romance film  The Romantic  and police corruption thriller  Drug King. She was also cast in Netflix’s upcoming zombie series Kingdom.

References[]

http://sense8.wikia.com/wiki/Bae_Doona