Jo Jung Suk | 조정석 | About

Jo Jung Suk is a South Korean actor who came up through musical theatre. Admitted to the Seoul Institute of the Arts on a student loan, he left before graduating to support his mother after his father died in 2000, and debuted in the musical The Nutcracker (2004); he appeared in some 25 productions over his first nine years, among them Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Grease and Spring Awakening. He moved to the screen with the drama What's Up (2011) and the film Architecture 101 (2012), which won him Best New Actor at the Blue Dragon Film Awards, and took Best Supporting Actor at the Grand Bell Awards for The Face Reader (2013). He played the chef Kang Sun Woo in Oh My Ghost (2015), then the disaster comedy Exit (2019) and Hospital Playlist (2020-2021). Pilot (2024) won him Best Actor at the Baeksang Arts Awards, and My Daughter Is a Zombie (2025) was the highest-grossing Korean film of its year. He is married to the singer Gummy.