Cha Hak Yeon | 차학연 | About

Cha Hak Yeon, who performs as N, is a South Korean singer, dancer and actor, and the leader of the boy band VIXX. A contemporary dancer who had won a dozen national competitions before debuting — and who took a year out of school to train in Japan — he spent five years as a trainee and won his place through Mnet's survival show MyDOL, debuting with VIXX in May 2012. He turned to acting in Hotel King (2014) and played the basketball player Ha Dong Jae in Cheer Up! (2015), going on to Tunnel and Ms. Perfect (2017), Familiar Wife and Children of Nobody (2018), Mine and Bad and Crazy (2021), and Joseon Attorney and Castaway Diva (2023). He won Best Actor in the drama special category at the 2022 KBS Drama Awards for The Stains. He has also appeared in musical theatre, among them In The Heights, and hosted Show! Music Core and his own radio programme. He served in the military from March 2019 to October 2020.