Kang So Ra

Biography

Kang So-ra (born February 18, 1990) is a South Korean actress.

Kang made her acting debut in the 2009 thriller movie 4th Period Mystery but rose to fame when she starred in the 2011 blockbuster Sunny, a coming-of-age film about a group of high school girls growing up in the 1980s. 

This was followed by leading roles in television dramas, such as the teen musical Dream High 2 (2012), and the family drama Ugly Alert (2013). Kang also appeared on the third season of We Got Married, a reality show that pairs up celebrities into fake "married" couples; her partner was Leeteuk from the K-pop group Super Junior.

Kang gained increased recognition after starring in two hit series in 2014: the medical drama Doctor Stranger (2014) and the workplace dramedy Misaeng: Incomplete Life (2014).  Doctor Stranger was a success in China with 400 million views, and Misaeng: Incomplete Life was dubbed a "cultural phenomenon" in South Korea. 

This was followed by lead roles in the romantic comedy Warm and Cozy (2015) together with Yoo Yeon-Seok, the legal drama My Lawyer, Mr. Jo (2016), and the romantic comedy Revolutionary Love (2017) alongside Choi Si-won from the K-pop group Super Junior.

In 2019, Kang returned to the big screen in the cycling film Uhm Bok-dong.

In 2020, Kang starred in the comedy film Secret Zoo, based on the webtoon of the same name. She plays a veterinarian who pretends to be a lion. The same year, she was cast in the romance melodrama film Waiting for Rain.

Kang married a doctor of Oriental medicine in August 2020 in a private ceremony. On November 19, 2020, it was announced that Kang was pregnant with their first child, due in April 2021.

On April 15, 2021, Kang's agency announced that Kang had given birth to a daughter. On October 16, 2023, it was confirmed that she was expecting her second child and expected to give birth at the end of this year.