Lee Chung-ah

This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee.

Lee Chung-ah
File:Lee Chung-ah from acrofan.jpg Lee Chung-ah at the premiere of Flower Boy Ramen Shop, on October 27, 2011
Born	(1984-10-29) October 29, 1984 Seoul, South Korea
Nationality	South Korean
Education	Hanyang University - Theater and Film
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2002-present
Agent	C-Jes Entertainment
Parent(s)	Lee Seung-chul
Korean name
Hangul	이청아
Hanja	李淸娥
Revised Romanization	I Cheong-a
McCune–Reischauer	I Ch'ŏng-a

Lee Chung-ah (born October 29, 1984) is a South Korean actress. She is best known for her leading roles in the movies Temptation of Wolves (2004) and My Tutor Friend 2 (2007), as well as the cable drama Flower Boy Ramen Shop (2011).

Career

Lee Chung-ah began her acting career by playing supporting roles in the movies Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2002) and Happy Ero Christmas (2003). In 2004, she landed her first leading role in Temptation of Wolves (2004), a film adaptation of an internet novel by Guiyeoni. Lee played a country girl who moves to the city and attracts the attention of the two most popular boys in town, played by Jo Han-sun and Kang Dong-won. The movie made the two actors into breakout stars, but not Lee.

She was cast as a lead actress in her first television drama Let's Go to the Beach (2005), where she and Lee Wan played bickering lifeguards who later fall in love. In 2006, Lee starred in the family drama Going Together and the omnibus film Ssunday Seoul.

Lee then starred in My Tutor Friend 2 (2007), the sequel to the 2003 hit movie of the same title. She studied Nihongo for her role as a Japanese exchange student who goes to Korea in search of her first love, then meets a happy-go-lucky university student (Park Ki-woong) who becomes her Korean language tutor. A year later, she was cast in Kim Jee-woon's kimchi western The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) in a small role as the foster sister of Jung Woo-sung's character. Lee said that she practiced horseback riding for this movie but those scenes were deleted in post-production. She later showed her horseback riding skills in Chosun Police Season 2, a series set during the reign of Emperor Gojong in which she played a damo with a dark past.

On television, Lee continued to appear in supporting roles in 2009 with the romantic comedy The Accidental Couple and family drama Everybody Cha-cha-cha. This was followed by the 2010 daily drama Pure Pumpkin Flower, where she played a pure-hearted girl who never loses hope even in difficult circumstances.

In 2011, she starred in the leading role in cable romantic comedy series Flower Boy Ramen Shop. Lee played a college girl preparing for teacher certification examination who unexpectedly inherits her father's ramen restaurant; she becomes involved in a love triangle with two of her employees, the arrogant heir to the biggest food conglomerate in Korea (Jung Il-woo) and a lazy but warm-heated genius chef (Lee Ki-woo). Flower Boy Ramen Shop received solid ratings for a Korean cable drama, and became the first of tvN's "flower boy" programming, which included Dating Agency: Cyrano on which Lee made a guest appearance in 2013.

Lee was in two variety shows in 2012. She hosted Cats and Dogs, a talk show in which pet owners shared information to foster a more mature pet culture. Lee then appeared in the second season of Music and Lyrics, a reality show in which a celebrity pair write and compose a song together. She wrote the lyrics and actor Seo Ji-seok composed the music for the ballad "Looking Forward to It," which was sung by Heo Young-saeng and used as the theme song of Seo In-guk's character in the family drama The Sons.

Lee reunited with Happy Ero Christmas costar Kim Sun-a in the 2013 revenge thriller The Five. Adapted from the webtoon of the same title, she played a detective with a delinquent credit history who helps kill a serial killer in exchange for an organ transplant for her ill mother. Later in the year, she played a doormat wife in the weekend drama series Wonderful Mama.

Personal life

Her father is musical theatre actor Lee Seung-chul.

She began dating actor Lee Ki-woo in 2013; they met as costars in the 2011 series Flower Boy Ramen Shop and are both members of the celebrity skiing team A11.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Resurrection of the Little Match Girl	Girl in soju-bang
	Tears	Girl
2003	Happy Ero Christmas	Lee Hae-min
2004	Twentidentity	Girl	segment: "Convenience Store at 2:00 a.m."
	Temptation of Wolves	Jung Han-kyung
2005	The Dark Plan of Green Tea Planet	S	short film
2006	Ssunday Seoul	Young-ja	segment: "The Young Adventurer"
2007	My Tutor Friend 2	Kitano Junko
2008	The Good, the Bad, the Weird	Song-yi
2010	The First Love Series	Han Seo-yeon	segment: "Paper Crane"
	Finding Mr. Destiny	Ji-hye
	Oh! Happy Day	Girl next door	short film
	Lee Chung-ah's Seoul Play		short film
2013	The Five	Park Jeong-ha
2014	First Love Struck Me One Day	Yong-jae
	Twinkle-Twinkle Pitter-Patter		short film
2015	Northern Limit Line	Captain Choi Yoon-jung (cameo)

Television series

Year	Title	Role	Network
2005	Let's Go to the Beach	Yoon So-ra	SBS
2006	Going Together	Da-seul	SBS
2008	Chosun Police Season 2	Han Da-kyung	MBC Dramanet
2009	The Accidental Couple	Goo Min-ji	KBS2
	Everybody Cha-cha-cha	Han Soo-hyun	KBS1
2010	Pure Pumpkin Flower	Park Soon-jung	SBS
2011	Flower Boy Ramen Shop	Yang Eun-bi	tvN
2013	Wonderful Mama	Oh Da-jung	SBS
	Dating Agency: Cyrano	Seol Yoo-jin (guest, episode 1)	tvN
2014	High School King of Savvy	Attractive woman (cameo, episode 17)	tvN
	Drama Special "The Bride Who Wore Sneakers"	Park Bo-gyeong	KBS2
2015-2016	Riders: Catch Tomorrow	Yoon So-dam	E Channel & DRAMAcube
2016	Vampire Detective	Yo-na	OCN
	Lucky Romance	Seol-hee	MBC

Variety show

Year	Title	Network	Notes
2010	The Fox's Butler	MBC	Host
2012	Cats and Dogs	tvN	Host
	Music and Lyrics - Season 2	MBC Music	paired with Seo Ji-seok

Music video

Year	Song Title	Artist
2004	"We Were in Love"	Lyn
2005	"Coward"	Buzz
2008	"웃어도 눈물이"	Ryu Joo-hwan
	"Because of You"	Shin Hye-sung
2010	"Telephone"	Electro Boyz (feat. Horan)
	"Full Story"	V.O.S
2013	"The Day to Love"	Lee Seung-chul
2015	"The Only Thing I Can't Do"	Gummy

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2005	28th Golden Cinematography Awards	Best New Actress	Temptation of Wolves	Won
	42nd Grand Bell Awards	Best New Actress		Won
2009	KBS Drama Awards	Best New Actress	The Accidental Couple, Everybody Cha-cha-cha	Nominated

External links

• Lee Chung-ah on Twitter (Korean)
• Lee Chung-ah at King Kong Entertainment (Korean)
• Lee Chung-ah Fan Cafe at Daum (Korean)
• Lee Chung-ah at the Korean Movie Database
• Lee Chung-ah at the Internet Movie Database
• Lee Chung-ah at HanCinema