Jeon Sung-woo

In this Korean name, the family name is Jeon .

Jeon Seong-woo
Born	(1987-12-30) December 30, 1987 (age 36) Seoul, South Korea
Education	Sungkyunkwan University – Performing Arts
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2007–present
Agent	High Entertainment
Korean name
Hangul	전성우
Revised Romanization	Jeon Seong-u
McCune–Reischauer	Chŏn Sŏngu

Jeon Seong-woo (born December 30, 1987) is a South Korean actor.

Career

Jeon debuted as a musical actor at the age of 20 in the musical Royal Dream of the Moon in which he portrayed the young version of Jeongjo of Joseon. He has since appeared in ten other musicals and five plays. ^[1] For his portrayal of Michael in The Elephant Song and of Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , Jeon won the Best Actor Award in the Theater Category at the 2016 Stagetalk Audience Choice Awards. ^[2]

In February 2015, Jeon signed with Great Company and consequently made his television debut in the sageuk Six Flying Dragons in which he was only credited as a student. ^[3] The following year, he played a fellow in the department of anesthesiology in the medical melodrama A Beautiful Mind . ^[4] He also made his film debut in The Table . ^[5] In 2017, he appeared in the crime drama Oh, the Mysterious . ^[6]

In July 2018, Jeon signed with High Entertainment and later appeared in Too Bright for Romance and Water Scale, respectively from the KBS Drama Special and tvN Drama Stage projects. ^{[7] [8]}

In 2019, Jeon portrayed a priest in the comedy crime drama The Fiery Priest which recorded the highest average rating of the year (16.1% nationwide and 18.1% in Seoul), as well as an NIS terrorism task force cyber specialist in the political thriller Designated Survivor: 60 Days and a rookie prosecutor in the legal television series Diary of a Prosecutor . ^{[9] [10] [11]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2016	The Table	Min-ho	[5]
2023	The Point Men

Television series

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2015–2016	Six Flying Dragons	Student	[3]
2016	A Beautiful Mind	Hong Kyung-soo	[4]
2017–18	Oh, the Mysterious	Scab	[6]
2018	KBS Drama Special – "Too Bright for Romance"	Lee Pil-yong	[7]
	Drama Stage – "Water Scale"	Jin-cheol	[8]
2019	The Fiery Priest	Han Sung-gyu / Father Marco	[9]
	Designated Survivor: 60 Days	Seo Ji-won	[10]
2019–2020	Diary of a Prosecutor	Kim Jeong-woo	[11]
2020–2021	Homemade Love Story	Hwang Na-ro
2022-2023	The First Responders 2	Han Se Jin

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2024	Goodbye Earth	Woo Seong-jae / Damian	[12]

Variety show

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2018	Talkmon	Cast member	[13]
2019	Surfing House	Main host	[14]

Music video appearances

Year	Song title	Artist	Ref.
2018	"The Other Day" (별 시)	Park Hyo-shin	[15]

Theater

Plays

Year	Title	Role
2012–2013	The Birth of Mildang	Seo-dong
2014–2015	M. Butterfly	Song Liling
2014	Deathtrap	Clifford Anderson
2015	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Christopher
2016–2017	The Elephant Song	Michael

Musicals

Year	Title	Role
2007	Royal Dream of the Moon	Jeongjo of Joseon (young)
2010	Hwarang	Sa Da-ham  [ ko ]
2011	Spring Awakening	Ernst Röbel
2011, 2013–2014	Thrill Me	Nathan Leopold
2012, 2016	Black Mary Poppins	Herman [16]
2012	Three Thousand Flowers	Jin Jang-goon
2013–2014	The Goddess Is Watching	Ryu Sun-ho
2013	Indangsu Love Song	Mong-ryong
2015	Bare: The Musical	Jason
2016	Memories of Matsuko	Youichi Ryu
2018	Maybe Happy Ending	Oliver
2023	Amadeus	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [17]

Awards and nominations

Name of the award ceremony, year presented, category, nominee of the award, and the result of the nomination

Award ceremony	Year	Category	Nominee / Work	Result	Ref.
SBS Drama Awards	2023	Scene Stealer Award	The First Responders 2	Nominated	[18]
Stagetalk Audience Choice Awards	2016	Best Actor (Theater)	The Elephant Song , The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Won	[2]

References

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2. Shin, Sung-ah (December 4, 2016). "관객이 직접 뽑는 'SACA'…2016 최고의 작품과 배우는?". New Daily (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 24, 2019. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
3. Lee, Seung-hyun (October 14, 2015). "'육룡이 나르샤' 전성우, 대본 인증샷 공개…"감사하고 설레"". The Korea Economic Daily (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 17, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
4. Kwak, Kyung-min (August 2, 2016). "'뷰티풀마인드' 전성우 "함께한 홍경수 떠나보내려니 허전해" 종영소감". The Korea Economic Daily (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 17, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
5. Jung, Da-hoon (August 18, 2017). "[현장]첫 영화 도전한 전성우, "'더 테이블'은 좋은 스타트"". Sedaily (in Korean). Archived from the original on November 17, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
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7. Park, Jin-young (October 6, 2018). "'너무 한낮의 연애' 전성우, 첫사랑 향수 불러온 섬세한 감성연기". Osen (in Korean). The Chosun Ilbo. Archived from the original on December 17, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
8. Kim, Soo-jung (December 8, 2018). "tvN 단막극 '물비늘' 신수원 감독x전성우 뭉쳤다". YTN (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 17, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
9. Shim, Eon-kyung (April 14, 2019). "카르텔 소탕→전성우 죽음?…'열혈사제' 김남길의 '운수 좋은 날' [Oh!쎈 리뷰]". Osen (in Korean). The Chosun Ilbo. Archived from the original on December 17, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
10. Lee, Joon-hyun (August 20, 2019). "'60일, 지정생존자' 전성우 "사랑과 응원에 감사"…종영 소감". The Korea Economic Daily (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 17, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
11. Lee, Kyung-ho (July 8, 2019). "[단독]전성우, '검사내전' 주연으로 합류..이번엔 검사다!". Star News (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 1, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
12. Lee Mi-ji (January 13, 2022). "넷플릭스 '종말의 바보' 안은진X유아인X전성우X김윤혜 출연확정(공식)" [Netflix 'The Fool of the End' confirmed to appear in Eunjin Ahn, Ah-in Yoo, Seong-woo Jeon, and Yun-hye Kim (official)] (in Korean). Newsen. Archived from the original on January 13, 2022. Retrieved January 13, 2022– via Naver.
13. Choi, Jung-min (January 30, 2018). "'토크몬' 전성우, 여장+탭탠스…첫 예능 성공". The Korea Economic Daily (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 17, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
14. Hong, Se-young (June 10, 2019). "조여정·송재림·김슬기·전성우 '서핑하우스' 출연, 7월21일 첫방 [공식입장]". Sports Donga (in Korean). Naver. Archived from the original on January 4, 2020. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
15. Hyun, Ji-min (May 3, 2018). "전성우, 박효신 '별 시' MV에서 뽐낸 존재감". The Korea Economic Daily (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 24, 2019. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
16. Kim, Min-jin (June 13, 2012). "Black Mary Poppins' presents dark nanny story". The Korea Times . Archived from the original on June 7, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
17. Kim Hyun-jeong (December 19, 2022). "김재범·차지연·문유강·전성우·최우혁, '아마데우스' 캐스팅 [공식입장]" [Jaebeom Kim, Jiyeon Cha, Yoogang Moon, Seongwoo Jeon, Woohyuk Choi, cast in 'Amadeus' [Official Position]] (in Korean). X-port News. Archived from the original on December 19, 2022. Retrieved December 19, 2022– via Naver.
18. Kim, Ye-seol (December 29, 2023). "모범택시2' 고상호·변중희, 신스틸러상 수상 "여러분의 마음 스틸할 것" [2023 SBS 연기대상]" ['Model Taxi 2' Ko Sang-ho and Byun Jung-hee won the New Stealer Award for "Your Heart Will Be Still" [2023 SBS Acting Awards]]. OSEN (in Korean). Retrieved December 30, 2023– via Naver.

External links

• Jeon Seong-woo at High Entertainment (in Korean)
• Jeon Seong-woo at IMDb