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Occupation
  
Actress, photographer

Hanja
  
裵斗娜

Years active
  
1999–present

Name
  
Bae Doona


Website
  
www.doona.net

Role
  
Actress

Hangul
  
배두나

Height
  
1.68 m


Born
  
October 11, 1979 (age 45) (
1979-10-11
)
Seoul, South Korea

Agent
  
Saetbyul-dang Entertainment

Parents
  
Hwa-yeong Kim, Bae Jong Deok

Awards
  
Asian Film Award for Best Actress

Education
  
Hanyang University, Konkuk University

Movies and TV shows
  
Sense8, Cloud Atlas, Jupiter Ascending, Air Doll, A Girl at My Door

Similar People
  
Max Riemelt, Tuppence Middleton, Jim Sturgess, Jamie Clayton, Tina Desai

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Bae Doo-na (Hangul: 배두나; [pɛduna]; born October 11, 1979) is a South Korean actress and photographer. She first became known outside Korea for her roles as a political activist in Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), archer Park Nam-joo in Bong Joon-ho's The Host (2006), and as an inflatable sex doll-come-to-life in Hirokazu Koreeda's Air Doll (2009). She has had English-speaking roles in the Wachowski films Cloud Atlas (2012) and Jupiter Ascending (2015), and the TV series Sense8 (2015-present).

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Early life

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Bae was born in Seoul, South Korea. Growing up, Bae would follow her mother, Kim Hwa-young, a stage actress in Korea, around the theater and rehearsal halls, learning lines of dialogue as she went along. This did not initially lead Bae towards acting, saying: "People might say that since my mother is a theater actor, I became an actress. But to me, those experiences probably had the opposite effect. On the contrary, because I saw many great actors working with my mother, I thought this was a job only people with extraordinary talent could do."

Career

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A Hanyang University student in 1998, Bae was scouted by a model talent agency while walking in Seoul. This led to modeling clothing for COOLDOG's catalog, amongst others. In 1999 she made the switch to acting before completing her studies at Hanyang University, debuting in the TV drama School. Later that year, she appeared as the ghost in The Ring Virus, a Korean remake of the Japanese horror film Ring.

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In 2000, director Bong Joon-ho cast her in the film Barking Dogs Never Bite for her willingness to do the part without makeup, something other South Korean actresses were unwilling to do. In Kim So-young's documentary Women's History Trilogy (2000–2004), Bae stated her admiration for veteran South Korean actress Yoon Jeong-hee; Yoon returned the compliment, saying "Bae Doo-na owns her world." In this same documentary, Bae shared how her own most memorable scene was being chased by the homeless man throughout the apartment in Barking Dogs Never Bite. That same year she gave a risque performance (albeit with a body double for the more intense scenes) in Plum Blossom, and slowly started getting more work on television.

This was followed by two more critical successes, 2001's Take Care of My Cat, directed by Jeong Jae-eun, and 2002's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, directed by Park Chan-wook.

2003 was less kind to Bae, as she saw both Tube and Spring Bears Love flop at the box office. After completing principal photography on Spring Bears Love, Bae decided to take time off from film, saying: "I never lived even once without having anything to do. The moment a film was presented to the press, I was almost always already shooting the next one [...] I thought by myself: now my first cycle is really over. While I rest a little, I wanted to make a fresh new start."

During her hiatus from the big screen, Bae took up photography, much of which can be seen between her official blog and her published photo-essay books. She also continued to work on TV, starring in Country Princess and Rosemary. Bae finally stepped onto a theater stage in 2004, for a production of Sunday Seoul (not to be confused with the South Korean movie of the same title), a play co-written by Park Chan-wook.

In 2005 Bae gave a memorable turn as an exchange student who joins a band in the Japanese film Linda Linda Linda, then played a divorced woman in the experimental omnibus TV series Beating Heart.

She reunited with Bong Joon-ho in 2006's The Host, which became the highest-grossing film in South Korean box office history. For her role, she trained in archery for months that she was told if she really wanted, she had enough talent to make it at an amateur level. She then returned to television, through the series Someday and How to Meet a Perfect Neighbor.

After winning accolades for Air Doll, a 2009 film by Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda about an inflatable sex doll that develops a soul and falls in love, Bae made back-to-back TV series in 2010, playing a high school teacher in Master of Study, and a night club singer in weekend drama Gloria.

Her 2012 sports film As One was based on the true story of the world table tennis championship held in Chiba, Japan in 1991 where North Korean player Ri Bun-hui and South Korean player Hyun Jung-hwa overcame their difficulties and came together to defeat the unbeatable Chinese team. Bae and co-star Ha Ji-won were trained by Hyun herself, and Bae learned to play left-handed like Ri. Afterwards she made a brief appearance in the science fiction film Doomsday Book.

Bae made her English-language, Hollywood debut in Cloud Atlas, as Sonmi~451, a clone in dystopian Korea. She also played the minor roles of Tilda Ewing, the wife of an abolitionist in pre-Civil War America, and a Mexican woman who crosses paths with an assassin. Co-directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, the US$100 million adaptation of David Mitchell's novel premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival to divisive reviews, though Bae's performance was unanimously praised by critics.

Back in Korea, Bae next starred in the 2014 film A Girl at My Door, directed by July Jung and produced by Lee Chang-dong. Playing a small-town police officer who tries to save a mysterious young girl she suspects is a victim of domestic violence, Bae said she was so fascinated by the story and emotionally challenging role that she decided to star in the movie without pay three hours after reading the script. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and Bae later won Best Actress at the Asian Film Awards.

In 2015, she reteamed with the Wachowskis for their space opera Jupiter Ascending, in which she played a small supporting role as a bounty hunter. This was followed by Sense8, an American science fiction series created by the Wachowskis (in Bae's third collaboration with them) and co-written by J. Michael Straczynski. About eight strangers from different cultures and parts of the world who share a violent psychic vision and suddenly find themselves telepathically connected, Sense8 began streaming on Netflix in 2015.

She then appeared in a 90-minute web film directed by her older brother, commercial director Bae Doo-han. Titled Red Carpet Dream, it is a biopic of how Bae dreamed of becoming an actress when she was young, and her 20-year acting career. Commissioned for the 20th anniversary of the Busan International Film Festival and sponsored by MAC Cosmetics, the film screened at the festival as well as on Facebook and cable channel CGV. Bae also teamed up with

Back on the big screen, Bae starred alongside Ha Jung-woo in the survival drama film The Tunnel. She then teamed up with Japanese director Shunji Iwai and actor Kim Joo-hyuk for the short film, Chang-ok’s Letter.

Bae returned to Korean TV screens in 2017 with mystery legal thriller Stranger, playing a passionate police officer. The series was a hit and gained favorable reviews for its tight plot, gripping sequences and strong performances. Bae is set to appear next in omnibus romance film The Romantic and police corruption thriller Drug King.

Filmography

Actress
2023
Rebel Moon (post-production) as
Nemesis
2022
Broker as
Su-jin
2022
Next Sohee as
Yoo Jin
2021
The Silent Sea (TV Series) as
Doctor Song Ji-an
- The Silent Sea (2021) - Doctor Song Ji-an
- Key to Salvation (2021) - Doctor Song Ji-an
- Luna (2021) - Doctor Song Ji-an
- Secret Storage (2021) - Doctor Song Ji-an
- Cause of Death (2021) - Doctor Song Ji-an
- The Truth Comes Out (2021) - Doctor Song Ji-an
- Three Storages (2021) - Doctor Song Ji-an
- Balhae Lunar Research Station (2021) - Doctor Song Ji-an
2017
Stranger (TV Series) as
Han Yeo Jin
2019
Kingdom (TV Series) as
Seo Bi
2019
#Iamhere as
Soo
2019
Persona (TV Mini Series) as
Doona
- Love set (2019) - Doona
2018
The Drug King as
Kim Jeong-ah
2018
The Greatest Divorce (TV Series) as
Kang Hwi-roo
2015
Sense8 (TV Series) as
Sun Bak
- Amor Vincit Omnia (2018) - Sun Bak
- You Want a War? (2017) - Sun Bak
- What Family Actually Means (2017) - Sun Bak
- If All the World's a Stage, Identity Is Nothing But a Costume (2017) - Sun Bak
- All I Want Right Now Is One More Bullet (2017) - Sun Bak
- I Have No Room in My Heart for Hate (2017) - Sun Bak
- Isolated Above, Connected Below (2017) - Sun Bak
- Fear Never Fixed Anything (2017) - Sun Bak
- Polyphony (2017) - Sun Bak
- Obligate Mutualisms (2017) - Sun Bak
- Who Am I? (2017) - Sun Bak
- Happy F*cking New Year. (2016) - Sun Bak
- Death Doesn't Let You Say Goodbye (2015) - Sun Bak
- We Will All Be Judged by the Courage of Our Hearts (2015) - Sun Bak
- Demons (2015) - Sun Bak
- Smart Money's on the Skinny Bitch (2015) - Sun Bak
- Art Is Like Religion (2015) - Sun Bak
- What's Going On? (2015) - Sun Bak
- I Can't Leave Her (2015) - Sun Bak
- Just Turn the Wheel and the Future Changes (2015) - Sun Bak
- WWN Double-D? (2015) - Sun Bak
- I Am Also A We (2015) - Sun Bak
- What Is Human? (2015) - Sun Bak
- Limbic Resonance (2015) - Sun Bak
2017
Chang-ok's Letter (TV Mini Series) as
Eun-ha
- Chang-ok's Kite and Letter (2017) - Eun-ha
- Chang-ok's Daughter (2017) - Eun-ha
- Chang-ok's Evening (2017) - Eun-ha
- Chang-ok's Morning (2017) - Eun-ha
2016
Tunnel as
Se-Hyun
2015
Jupiter Ascending as
Razo
2014
A Girl at My Door as
Young-Nam
2012
Cloud Atlas as
Tilda / Megan's Mom / Mexican Woman / ...
2012
As One as
Li Bun Hui
2012
Doomsday Book as
Min-seo (Older) (segment "Happy Birthday")
2010
Gloria (TV Series) as
Na Jin Jin
2010
God of Study (TV Series) as
Han Soo Jung
2009
Air Doll as
Nozomi
2007
How to Meet a Perfect Neighbor (TV Series) as
Jung Yoon-Hee
2006
Someday (TV Series) as
Hana Yamaguchi
2006
The Host as
Park Nam-Joo (as Bae Doo-na)
2005
Tea Date (Short) as
Sunhee
2005
Linda Linda Linda as
Son - vocalist
2005
Beating Heart (TV Series) as
Bae Doo-na
- Happiness (2005) - Bae Doo-na
- Happiness (2005) - Bae Doo-na
- Outing (2005) - Bae Doo-na
- Outing (2005) - Bae Doo-na
- Hope (2005) - Bae Doo-na
- Hope (2005) - Bae Doo-na
- Sorrow (2005) - Bae Doo-na
- Sorrow (2005) - Bae Doo-na
- Joy (2005) - Bae Doo-na
- Joy (2005) - Bae Doo-na
- Love (2005) - Bae Doo-na
- Love (2005) - Bae Doo-na
2003
Do You Like Spring Bear? as
Jeong Hyun-jae
2003
Tube as
Kay
2003
Wi-poong-dang-dang Geu-nyeo (TV Series) as
Lee Eun Hee (2003)
2002
Gudseura Geum-suna as
Jeong Geum-sun
2002
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance as
Yeong-mi Cha
2001
Take Care of My Cat as
Tae-hie (as Bae Doo Na)
2001
Tomak: Daeji sarang iyagi rul jewihago (Video Game) as
Izumi / Dejawa (voice)
2000
Cheongchun as
Nam-ok
2000
Look Back in Anger (TV Series) as
Lee Mi Na
2000
Barking Dogs Never Bite as
Hyun-nam
1999
The Ring Virus as
Park Eun-Suh
Self
2022
The Game Caterers (TV Mini Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #2.5 (2022) - Self - Guest
- Episode #2.4 (2022) - Self - Guest
2021
House on Wheels (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #2.2 (2021) - Self - Guest
- Episode #2.1 (2021) - Self - Guest
2017
#HappyBirthdaySense8 (Short) as
Self
2017
The Sense8 Experience (Short) as
Self
2015
Sense8: Creating the World (TV Short documentary) as
Self
2013
Vivir de cine (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #1.18 (2013) - Self
2010
The 33rd Annual Japan Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self
2009
It's Okay to Laugh! (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 17 September 2009 (2009) - Self
Archive Footage
2016
Unknown Movies (TV Series) as
Self
- Bong, Park & Kim (2016) - Self

References

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