Song Ji-hyo

Then she was nominated for the Best New Actress at the 24th Blue Dragon Film Awards for her performance in the film.

Song experienced a rise in popularity and was nominated for Best New Actress in the TV category at the 43rd Baeksang Arts Awards for her performance.

Cheon Soo-yeon (born August 15, 1981), known professionally as Song Ji-hyo, is a South Korean actress and model.

Song Ji-hyo was born as Cheon Seong-im on August 15, 1981, in Pohang, North Gyeongsang.

Her mother swam competitively for South Korea.

She has a younger sister and a younger brother, Cheon Seong-moon, an actor.

Song dreamed of becoming an actress during her high school years after watching Park Shin-yang in the 1998 South Korean film, Promise.

She graduated with a degree in tax accounting from Kyungmoon University (now Kookje University).

Before entering the acting industry, Song was cast while working a part-time job at a cafe.

Before Song debuted as an actress, she was a model for Kiki Magazine.

She chose "Song Ji-hyo" as her stage name because she was inspired by the two famous actors Song Seung-heon and Song Hye-kyo, both main protagonists of Autumn in My Heart.

Song then appeared in the music videos of Lee Soo-young's "And I Love You" and JTL's "Just Say Goodbye".

She also made a cameo appearance in the television series Age of Innocence.

She was a cover model for Kiki Magazine before she made her acting debut in the feature film Wishing Stairs (2003), the third installment in the Whispering Corridors film series.

Song made her feature film debut in Wishing Stairs (2003), the third installment of the horror Whispering Corridors film series, after beating out 3000 actors in an audition.

She starred in the crime thriller Some (2004), where she played a reporter.

She made her television debut in the romantic comedy Princess Hours (2006) and the historical Jumong (2006).

Song made her television debut in the romantic comedy, Princess Hours (2006), where she played a ballet dancer who dreams to be a ballerina.

The series became hit across Asia, contributing to the Korean Wave.

In the same year, she played the role of Lady Ye So-ya, the first wife of Jumong and the mother of King Yuri in the historical television series Jumong (2006).

The series was a commercial hit, receiving the highest viewership ratings of all the Korean dramas that aired in 2006.

The following year, Song starred as a swimming champion who has a painful past in the comedy film Sex Is Zero 2 (2007), the sequel to Sex Is Zero (2002) opposite Im Chang-jung.

She also co-hosted SBS' music show Inkigayo, with Heechul of Super Junior from November 11, 2007, to May 4, 2008.

Song then received wider recognition for her roles in the film A Frozen Flower (2008), New World (2013), the TV series Emergency Couple (2014) and Was It Love? (2020), and her first-ever film released after the start of the pandemic COVID-19 since March 2020 in South Korea, Intruder (2020), which received a positive response from moviegoers even though it was released during the pandemic.

Song then portrayed the role of Queen in Yoo Ha's film A Frozen Flower (2008), alongside Jo In-sung and Joo Jin-mo.

The film became one of the highest-grossing films of 2008, and led to increased recognition for Song.

She later commented about the film and her nude scenes, "When I decided to do this film, nudity was not the central issue. How much I expose is not important to me; I thought without that scene, it would be difficult to portray the subtle changes in emotion. What mattered to me at the time was working on my facial expressions apart from the posture that the director wanted me to convey".

Song is one of the regular cast members of the South Korean variety show Running Man since 2010, which brought her international recognition.

Song has been a member of the urban action variety show Running Man since 2010.

She was requested to join by PD Kim Joo-hyung or also known as Myeok PD, whom she worked with while hosting Inkigayo.

She appeared in the show as a guest from episode 2 to episode 5 then became a regular member in episode 6.

After her contract ended with Namoo Actors, Song signed with C-JeS Entertainment in early 2011 and appeared in Choo Chang-min's film Late Blossom (2011).

The film is based on the comic I Love You by web cartoonist Kang Full.

She reunited with Jumong co-star Song Il-gook in the police procedural television series Detectives in Trouble (2011) where she played a role as a reporter.

Later in the year, she starred in the historical television series Gyebaek (2011) as the Queen of King Uija.

In November, she was appointed as promotional ambassador for the Ministry of Education along with label-mates JYJ.

Song then co-starred alongside Kim Jae-joong of JYJ in the action comedy Code Name: Jackal (2012) where she played a clumsy assassin.

The following year, Song participated in dubbing for the animated film Maritime Police Marco (2013) alongside fellow Running Man cast Lee Kwang-soo, and played a detective in Park Hoon-jung's crime film New World (2013).

She also starred opposite Lee Dong-wook as a royal nurse in the historical television series The Fugitive of Joseon (2013).

Song took on the leading role in the medical romantic comedy television series Emergency Couple (2014) co-starring Choi Jin-hyuk, playing a divorced medical intern who encounters her ex-husband of an ugly divorce at an emergency room.