| Name |
Sul Kyung-gu |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
South Korean |
| Date of Birth |
1-May-1968 |
| Place of Birth |
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| Famous for |
Acting |
Sul Kyung-gu is a Grand Bell Award, Golden Space Needle Award, and Bratislava International Film Festival Best Actor winning South Korean actor. He studied film and theater at Hanyang University and upon graduation took part in mostly theatrical productions. After transitioning into film, Sol is best known for his roles in the popular Public Enemy and Silmido.
Born in Chungcheongnam-do in 1968, SOL Kyung-gu studied Film and Drama at Hanyang University, graduating in 1994. He was already acting on stage before his graduation, and went on to appear in such shows as the hit Korean adaptation of the German rock musical Line 1 and a production of Sam Shepard’s True West. His first film role was in A Petal (1996, directed by JANG Sun-woo). Since 1998 he has specialised exclusively in film work, winning numerous Best Actor prizes at home and abroad for his first collaboration with Lee Chang-dong on Peppermint Candy. Dividing his time between commercial movies and more challenging and ambitious work, he has recently won another Best Actor prize from the Daejong Film Festival for his role as an unscrupulous cop in KANG Woo-suk’s Public Enemy. Kyung-gu Sol will marry actress Yun-ah Song on May 28, 2009. The couple first worked together in the 2002 film "Jail Breakers" and then in the 2006 film "Lost in Love".
Kyung-gu Sol was previously married for ten years to the younger sister of actor Nae-sang Ahn prior to divorcing in 2006. He displayed his marvelous acting skills in Palme d'Or nominated and Silver Lion winning director Lee Chang-dong's Peppermint Candy, in which he is a suicidal man devastated by the two-decades of historical change his country undergoes and as a mildly mentally-retarded outcast with sociopathic inclinations in Oasis, two groundbreaking films that are part of the Korean New Wave film movement.
