Known For: South Korean actor (born 1973)
Category: Actors
Occupation: actor, model, film actor, television actor, film director
Country: South Korea
City: Seoul
Date of Birth: Sunday, 22 April 1973
Jung Woo-sung is a South Korean actor and the first Korean UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. Jung started his career as a fashion model, rising to stardom and teenage cult status with the gangster film Beat (1997), for which he won Best New Actor at the 17th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards.
| BirthPlace | Seoul |
| Awards | Q4806633 |
| Website | http://jungwoosung.net/ |
| Wikipedia | Jung_Woo-sung |
Jung grew up in Sadang-dong, then one of the poorest neighborhoods in Seoul. He gave up studying, dropping out of high school after one year, to work and thus support the family budget. He never hid this fact or regretted doing so. He was tall in elementary school, his height causing him to constantly hunch. When trying to break into the film industry, he was told he was too tall to become an actor, so he first worked as a model.
