Full Name Kim Hyung-soo Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 ⁄2 in) | Years active 2003-present Name Lee Wan Occupation Actor | |
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Education Kookmin University - Physical EducationKookmin University Graduate School - Sports Management Movies and TV shows Similar People Kim Tae‑hee, Park Shin‑hye, Shin Hyun‑joon, Baek Sung‑hyun, Kei Horie | ||
Siblings Kim Tae-hee, Kim Hee Won | ||
Park Shin Hye First Love With Lee Wan
Lee Wan (born Kim Hyung-soo on January 3, 1984) is a South Korean actor.
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- Park Shin Hye First Love With Lee Wan
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- Career
- Television series
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- Music video
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Kim tae hee lee wan 2013 new cf pns window making film
Career
Born as Kim Hyung-soo, he began his career in entertainment after starring in a music video alongside older sister, actress Kim Tae-hee. Using the stage name Lee Wan, he made his acting debut in 2003. He first drew notice in a supporting role in the television drama Stairway to Heaven, followed by leading roles in romantic comedies Snow White: Taste Sweet Love and Let's Go to the Beach. He reunited with Stairway to Heaven costar Park Shin-hye in 2006 in the melodrama Tree of Heaven which was a joint Korean-Japanese production. Lee also contributed the song "Where Farewells Don't Exist" to the drama's soundtrack.
Lee's increased Korean Wave popularity led to him being cast in as the leading man in the Japanese film Veronika Decides to Die (based on the same-titled novel by Paulo Coelho), which screened at the 2005 Tokyo International Film Festival. He also played the leading role opposite Ami Suzuki in the 2007 Japanese television drama Magnolia no Hana no Shita de ("Under the Magnolia"), which portrayed a romance between a Korean man and a Japanese woman who meet while studying in New York City. Afterwards, he returned to Korean television with a supporting role in In-soon Is Pretty, as the protagonist's younger brother.
In 2008, Lee starred in the Korean War film Once Upon a Time in Seoul. He next played a villain in the gambling-themed series Swallow the Sun in 2009.
Lee enlisted for mandatory military service on 12 July 2010, and was part of the entertainment soldiers unit of the Defense Media Agency under the Ministry of National Defense. He was discharged on 23 April 2012.
As his first post-army project, Lee appeared in the 2013 online drama It's Not Over Yet; it aired in 6-part 10-minute installments on social networking sites. In 2015, he starred in Northern Limit Line, a naval thriller about the Second Battle of Yeonpyeong.