Kim Hye-sun

Kim Hye-sun began modeling when she was in middle school. While attending Anyang High School of the Arts, Kim appeared in commercials for Orion, Lotte Samkang and Korea Cosmetics, and subsequently made her acting debut in 1986. She quickly gained popularity as a teen star with an innocent and bright image. Kim also became active in Japanese entertainment in 1988, where she was known under the name {{nihongo|Shirakawa Shoko|白川翔子}} and released two photo books titled Temptation of the White Wind and Like It!.{{cite web|title=KIM Hye-sun|url=https://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/films/index/peopleView.jsp?peopleCd=10006378|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|access-date=2014-09-22|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003741/http://koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/films/index/peopleView.jsp?peopleCd=10006378|url-status=dead}} In 1993, she won Best Supporting Actress at the Blue Dragon Film Awards for her performance in Love Is Oh Yeah!.

After getting married in 1995, Kim retired from show business and immigrated to the United States. But she returned to acting two years later in the television drama The River of Maternal Love (1997). As she grew older, she began playing ajummas (middle-aged wives and mothers), notably in Famous Princesses (2006), First Wives' Club (2007) and What's for Dinner? (2009).{{cite web|last=Lee|first=Kyong-hee|title=Feisty TV mom clobbers husband for cheating|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2884866|website=Korea JoongAng Daily|access-date=2014-11-28|date=9 January 2008|archive-date=2016-05-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530113827/http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2884866|url-status=live}} Then in 2011, Kim was cast in her first big-screen leading role in 17 years. In My Secret Partner, she played a famous chef in her 40s who becomes involved in a passionate romance with a younger man in his 20s, and the film became controversial due to its explicit content, which featured Kim in a number of nude scenes.{{cite web|title=Kim Hye-sun Ditches Innocent Image with Saucy New Role|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/11/26/2011112600372.html|website=The Chosun Ilbo|access-date=2014-09-22|date=26 November 2011|archive-date=2015-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150304090709/http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/11/26/2011112600372.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last=Lee|first=Jin-ho|title=Kim Hye Sun Takes Risk Filming Nude Scene in New Movie|url=http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/1482/kim-hye-sun-takes-risk-filming-nude-scene-in-new-movie|website=enewsWorld|access-date=2014-09-22|date=11 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924132145/http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/1482/kim-hye-sun-takes-risk-filming-nude-scene-in-new-movie|archive-date=24 September 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|last=Lee|first=Jin-ho|title=How Much Does Kim Hye Sun Take Off in Perfect Partner?|url=http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/1490/how-much-does-kim-hye-sun-take-off-in-perfect-partner|website=enewsWorld|access-date=2014-09-22|date=11 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924045056/http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/1490/how-much-does-kim-hye-sun-take-off-in-perfect-partner|archive-date=24 September 2014|url-status=dead}}

Kim married her first husband in 1995, but after eight years of marriage, they divorced in September 2003. She remarried in July 2004, but she and her second husband, a businessman, divorced in 2009.{{cite web|script-title=ko:사랑스러운 미시 탤런트 김혜선 주부로 느끼는 행복|url=http://woman.donga.com/docs/magazine/woman/2002/12/11/200212110500039/200212110500039_1.html/|website=Woman Dong-a|language=ko|access-date=2014-09-22|date=11 December 2002|archive-date=2024-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605144203/https://woman.donga.com/people/article/all/12/128656/1|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last=Sunwoo|first=Carla|title=Actress Kim Hye-sun splits with lover Jang Hyeon-soo|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2946871|website=Korea JoongAng Daily|access-date=2014-09-22|date=10 January 2012|archive-date=2014-11-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141118081633/http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2946871|url-status=live}} Kim has two children, a son and a daughter.

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Category:1969 births

Category:Actresses from Seoul

Category:Living people

Category:People from Jung District, Seoul

Category:South Korean television actresses

Category:South Korean film actresses

Category:Dankook University alumni