- Born
- Nicknames
- Wonder Woman
- Nation's First Love
- Height5′ 6¼″ (1.68 m)
- Kim Hye-Soo is a South Korean actress and one of the most popular teen stars of the 1980s and 1990s. She is known for her headstrong independence and regularly playing strong-willed, sophisticated women. During the height of her fame, Kim was referred to as the "Pencil Board Star" of the 1980s due to the popularity of pencil boards printed with her image. She has also been named a part of the "Troika of the 1990s" in Korea along with her contemporaries Kim Hee-Sun and Shim Eun-Ha for their nationwide fame. In 1993, Kim led the main role in the film First Love and gained critical acclaim for her portrayal of the archetypal innocent girl, winning a Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Leading Actress and earning her the title "Nation's First Love" although the film was a box-office failure.
n 1985, Kim was featured in a commercial for Nestlé Milo and as well as the first K-pop music video, Cho Yong-Pil's title song Empty In The Air. In 1986, Kim made her film debut on Kambo when she was a first-year high school student. She also won Best New Actress for Kambo at the 23rd Baeksang Arts Awards. Kim went on to play the leading roles in the television series Samogok (1987), Sun Shim-Yi (1988), and Senoya (1989). She co-starred with Roh Joo-Hyun in When The Flowers Bloom And The Birds Cry (1990). In 1991, she landed the main role in Lost Love.
Over two decades, she amassed a massive filmography of leading and supporting roles, notably in the television series Did We Really Love? with Bae Yong-Joon and Revenge and Passion with Ahn Jae-Wook, as well as the film Tie a Yellow Ribbon (1998). In the 2000s, Kim focused more on her career in film rather than television, featuring in Kick the Moon, YMCA Baseball Team, and Three. At this time, she reinvented her image as a glamorous and confident Femme Fatale in Hypnotized (2004).
- IMDb mini biography by: wikipedia
- ParentsKim Hyeon-suk
- RelativesKim Hye-sung(Sibling)Kim Dong-Hyeon(Sibling)Kim Dong-Hee(Sibling)
- Usually portrays strong-willed sophisticated women
- Skilled in martial arts (Taekwondo), holding 3rd Dan of black belt in Taegwondo.
- Hye Soo is fluent in five languages. She can speak Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. She learned the English language for her role in 'Too Tired to Die (1998)' where she worked alongside Kaneshiro Takeshi.
- In 2017, Hye Soo starred in the movie A Special Lady where she had lots of fight scenes. Not only did she have to fight with a lot of stuntmen, but at one point, she also had to carry a rifle that weighed a little over 20 pounds.
- She is the second child among 5 siblings. She has 1 sister and 3 brothers. Two of her brothers, Dong Hyun Kim and Dong Hee Kim, are also actors in South Korea.
- Hye Soo has a bachelor's degree in theater and film from Dongguk University and a master's in journalism and mass communications from Sungkyunkwan University.
- [1999 Interview] Women are the sky, men are ground. That's also possible. For me, this is how I always think: Men are the sky. Okay sure, that's correct, I agree. But women are the universe.
- [2008] I like the straightforward way that W depicts world news in the five years it's been on the air so far. It's a dream come true for me to be involved with a documentary program. I hope to live up to the expectations.
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