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Actor
Gender
Male
Birthday
25 September
Location
Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Edit pageRyu Jun Yeol
Biography
Ryu Jun-yeol (born September 25, 1986) is a South Korean actor, activist, and photographer. Ryu began his acting career in independent films, he drew attention from his role in the feature film Socialphobia (2015).
He rose to international prominence through his breakthrough role in the critically acclaimed television series Reply 1988 (2015–2016) the highest-rated drama in Korean cable television history at the time, which also led to him winning the Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actor – Television.
Since then he has starred in the box-office hit films The King (2017), A Taxi Driver (2017), Little Forest (2018), Believer (2018), Money (2019), The Battle: Roar to Victory (2019), and The Night Owl (2022).
Ryu has received numerous accolades throughout his career for the Baeksang Arts Awards, Blue Dragon Film Awards, Buil Film Awards, Chunsa Film Art Awards, London East Asian Film Festival, and the New York Asian Film Festival. In addition to his film work, Ryu actively engages in social environmental activism and photography.
He has been recognized by "Forbes" Korea as one of the most powerful celebrities in South Korea, placing on the list for three consecutive years, 14th in 2017, 36th in 2018, and 11th in 2019.
In 2021, Ryu starred in JTBC's "Tenth Anniversary Special Project", a Hur Jin-ho melodrama television series Lost with Jeon Do-Yeon, marking his small screen comeback after five years.
In 2022, Ryu headlined Choi Dong-hoon's sci-fi action-fantasy film, Alienoid, reuniting with Kim Tae-ri. The film premiered in July 2022. Despite the film not being a commercial success, Ryu's performance was praised by critics. In November, Ryu starred in the historical-thriller film The Night Owl, reuniting with Yoo Hae-jin.
