- Born
- Height5′ 9½″ (1.77 m)
- South Korean model-turned-actor Hoyeon received international recognition and critical acclaim after the global success of the Netflix original series, Squid Game, in which she played Kan Sae-byeok, also known as Player 067. For her breakout performance on the show, Hoyeon won the Screen Actors Guild award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series and earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
Hailing from Myeonmok-dong, a suburb of Seoul, Hoyeon began her career as a freelance model in 2011 walking in Seoul Fashion Week. She competed on the fourth season of Korea's Next Top Model and placed as a runner-up. In 2016, she got her big international break when she landed an exclusive global contract with Louis Vuitton. Since then, she has starred in campaigns and walked the runway for designers such Chanel, Fendi, Miu Miu, Marc Jacobs, and Moschino to name a few. She has also appeared in numerous fashion magazines including international editions of Vogue, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar, W, V, and countless others.
- IMDb mini biography by: SM
- On October 4, 2021, she became the most followed Korean actress on Instagram, with over 22 million followers to date.
- In 2021, she was selected as a global ambassador for Louis Vuitton and Adidas.
- In February 2022, she became the first South Korean in US Vogue's 130-year history to grace the cover as the solo feature.
- She attended Dongduk Women's University, where she majored in modeling.
- While working as a model, she became known by designers as the "red-haired Asian".
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