Lee Jung-jae

Lee Jung-jae (; born December 15, 1972) is an actor and former model from South Korea. In 2021 he gained fame for his role of Seong Gi-Hun in Netflix's survival drama "Squid Game". He won a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy Award for his role as Seong Gi-Hun.
Career.
He started his career as a fashion model. Then Lee Jung-jae began his acting career on television in the campus series "Feelings" (1994) and the iconic drama "Sandglass" (1995).
Lee's film career grew after his acting breakthrough in "An Affair" (1998). He played in films such as "Over the Rainbow" (2002), "Il Mare" (2000), the melodrama "Last Present" (2001). He also played in popular comedies, such as "Oh! Brothers" (2003), action films "The Last Witness" (2001) and "Typhoon" (2005), heist film "The Thieves" (2012), film noir "New World" (2013), and period film "The Face Reader" (2013). 
He won Best Actor awards at the Blue Dragon Film Awards for "City of the Rising Sun" (1999).