Kim Soo-mi | |
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Born | Kim Young-ok September 3, 1949 Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, South Korea |
Education | Korea University Graduate School of Media |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1970-present |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 김수미 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Gim Su-mi |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Sumi |
Birth name | |
Hangul | 김영옥 |
Revised Romanization | Gim Yeong-ok |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Yŏngok |
Kim Soo-mi (born Kim Young-ok on September 3,1949) is a South Korean actress. She has had a prolific career in film and television. Kim debuted in a talent contest in 1970,then shot to fame in Country Diaries. [1] The landmark TV series aired for almost 20 years, [2] making Kim one of the most popular Korean actresses of the 1980s.
In 2003 she made a memorable cameo as a profanity-spouting ajumma in the Jang Nara comedy Oh! Happy Day. It successfully revamped her image and rejuvenated her fading career. [3] Kim quickly became known in the Korean entertainment industry as the "Queen of Ad-lib," [3] with her comic talent showcased in many of her succeeding projects,notably Mapado , [4] Twilight Gangsters, [5] Granny's Got Talent (2015), [6] and the Marrying the Mafia sequels. [7] [8]
Kim also gained attention for her turns in more serious fare,such as 2006's Barefoot Ki-bong ,a heartwarming pic about a developmentally disabled man. Her 2011 film Late Blossom is a romance between two elderly couples,a topic rarely explored in Korean cinema. [9] [10] The low-budget indie became a sleeper hit,and for her portrayal of an Alzheimer's-afflicted woman,Kim won Best Supporting Actress at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. [11]
In 1998,Kim's chauffeur-driven BMW shot backward,killing her mother-in-law. Kim filed a ₩1 billion lawsuit against BMW,alleging that the sudden-start had been a car defect. The Seoul District Court ruled in the automaker's favor in 2003,saying that it was unclear whether the accident was caused by driver error or a sudden-start. [12] Kim filed an appeal at the Seoul High Court. [13]
She headed the publicity as part of the organizing committee of the 1999 Hanam International Environment Expo. [14]
Since 2003,Kim has been the chairman of the Department of Theater and Film at Soongsil University's College of Social Sciences.
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