Jun Ji Hyun is a South Korean actress. She is best known for her role as "The Girl" in the widely popular 2001 romantic comedy My Sassy Girl, one of the highest grossing Korean comedies of all time. Other notable films include Il Mare, Windstruck, The Thieves, and The Berlin File.
Jun first became well known as a commercial model and as a TV actress, she began her career as a model for Ecole Magazine in 1997. Although she made her film debut in the little-watched White Valentine in 1999, it was not until later in the year when she was featured in a commercial for Samsung My Jet Printer that she became a popular sensation. The dancing and attitude expressed in the ad made her into an icon for Koreans in their late teens and early twenties. Jun's breakout film was comedy My Sassy Girl, which became a huge hit both in Korea and throughout Asia with its tale of a gullible college student and his slightly unhinged girlfriend. For her role in the film, she won Best Actress at the 2002 Grand Bell Awards. After a 14-year absence from Korean television, she made a successful return to TV with the smash hit My Love From Another Star, which also starred her Thieves co-star Kim Soo Hyun. Recently, she stars as Shim Chung a mermaid in The Legend of the Blue Sea a South Korean televison series.
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