Full Name Jo Bo-yoon Hangul 조보아 Role Actress Other names Cho Bo-ah Hanja 赵宝儿 | Occupation Actress Revised Romanization Jo Bo-a Agent SidusHQ Years active 2011-present Name Jo Bo-ah | |
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Movies and TV shows Innocent Thing, Shut Up Flower Boy Band, The King's Doctor Similar People On Joo‑wan, Choi Tae‑joon, Song Jae‑rim, Son Yeo‑Eun, Kim Tae‑kyun | ||
Jo Bo-ah (born Jo Bo-yoon on August 22, 1991) is a South Korean actress.
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Early life
Jo Bo-ah was born on August 22, 1991 in Daejeon, South Korea. She has one sister who is four years younger. Jo graduated from Daejeon Banseok High School.
Career
Jo made her acting debut in 2011 with a small role in the daily sitcom I Live in Cheongdam-dong on cable channel jTBC. This was followed by a hosting gig on the audition program Made in U (also on jTBC), and an appearance in the Korean-Japanese co-production Koisuru Maison ~Rainbow Rose~.
In 2012, Jo landed her first major role as a former rich girl who falls for a rocker in tvN's coming-of-age series Shut Up Flower Boy Band. Later that year, she appeared in her first network TV series with a supporting role in the MBC period drama Horse Doctor.
In 2013, Jo and Kim Woo-bin hosted Mnet's weekly music show M Countdown for two weeks (on April 4 and 11).
Jo was cast in her first film in 2014, as a troubled, seductive teenager who becomes obsessed with her gym teacher in the erotic thriller Innocent Thing. Back on cable television, she played the leading role in romantic comedy series The Idle Mermaid, a modern retelling of The Little Mermaid set amidst the competitive Korean workplace.
Jo tried a new genre in 2015 with the OCN police procedural Missing Noir M, where she played a detective on the missing persons task force. She then joined the ensemble cast of the KBS weekend family drama All About My Mom. Jo is also set to star in the upcoming web series Love Cells 2, adapted from the webtoon of the same title. In 2016, Jo starred in Monster.