Lee Hye Young | 이혜영 | About

Lee Hye Young is a South Korean actress, and the daughter of the celebrated film director Lee Man Hee, who died in 1975 while she was in middle school.

She began acting in 1981, at eighteen, in a local musical theatre production of "The Sound of Music", and has worked in theatre, in short and feature films and on television ever since. She was among the most prominent Korean actresses of the 1980s, in films including "The Blazing Sun" (1985), "Winter Wanderer" and "Ticket" (1986), "The Age of Success" (1988), "North Korean Partisan in South Korea" (1990), "Fly High Run Far" (1991), "Passage to Buddha" (1993) and "No Blood No Tears" (2002).

On television she has taken supporting roles in "I'm Sorry, I Love You" (2004), as the actress Oh Deul Hee, "Fashion 70's" (2005) and "Boys Over Flowers" (2009), and has kept working steadily since — "Can You Hear My Heart" (2011), "Mother" and "Lawless Lawyer" (2018), "Kill Heel" (2022) and "Bitter Sweet Hell" (2024).