Jeon Do-yeon (born February 11, 1973) is a highly-acclaimed South Korean actress who has won many awards including best actress at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. She is most famous for her extraordinary portrayal of a broken woman who has lost everything in Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine.
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Biography from TMDB.
- February 11, 1973 (53)
- Seoul, South Korea
- Actor
- 19 on MovieCove · 44 credits in all
What are Jeon Do-yeon's films like?
Across their 17 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Morality.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 14
Light 0 · Serious 2 · Dark 12
A split, not a type: Grounded 7 · Stylized 5 · Heightened 2
Gentle 0 · Charged 4 · Intense 10
Steady 3 · Shifting 10 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 14 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
A split, not a type: Slow burn 7 · Even-paced 6 · Relentless 1
Casual 1 · Engaged 10 · Full focus 3
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 4 · Heavy 10
A split, not a type: Resolved 8 · Open-ended 6 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
Usually the Hero: 8 of 13 analyzed roles.
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- Heroas Lady Jeong in Untold Scandal (2003)
- Heroas Lee Shin-ae in Secret Sunshine (2007)
- Shadowas Lee Shin-ae in Secret Sunshine (2007)
- Heroas Lee Eun-yi in The Housemaid (2010)
- Heroas Jeong-yeon in Way Back Home (2013)
- Shapeshifteras Kim Hye-kyung in The Shameless (2015)
- Mentoras Seol-rang in Memories of the Sword (2015)
- Heroas Sang-min in A Man and a Woman (2016)
- Heraldas Yeon-hee in Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020)
- Heroas Lee Boo-jeong in Lost (2021)
- Allyas Sook-hee in Emergency Declaration (2021)
- Heroas Gil Bok-soon in Kill Boksoon (2023)
- Heroas Ahn Yoon-soo in The Price of Confession (2025)
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet9
- Tragic2
- Ambiguous5
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Jeon Do-yeon's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 17 of their 19 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (7).
Subscription and free streaming for Jeon Do-yeon's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
44 credits, 19 with a MovieCove page; 11 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
The Great Oksuk (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2027)
Possible Love(2026)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
The Price of Confession(2025)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all shows
Mantis(2025)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
The Cherry Orchard (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Good News(2025)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Revolver (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Kill Boksoon(2023)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
Crash Course in Romance(2023)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows
Emergency Declaration(2021)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Heartbeat (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Lost(2021)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows
Beasts Clawing at Straws(2020)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Ashfall(2019)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
Birthday (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
The Nest (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
The Good Wife (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
A Man and a Woman(2016)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Memories of the Sword(2015)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
The Shameless(2015)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Way Back Home(2013)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Countdown (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
The Housemaid(2010)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
My Dear Enemy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Secret Sunshine(2007)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Lovers in Prague (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
You Are My Sunshine(2005)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
My Mother the Mermaid (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Untold Scandal(2003)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
Shooting the Star (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
No Blood No Tears (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
I Wish I Had a Wife (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Happy End(1999)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
Love Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
The Harmonium in My Memory (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
A Promise (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
What You Cherish Can Never Be Forgotten (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Snail (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
The Contact (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
Star in My Heart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
Star in My Heart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
Until We Fall in Love (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Love is Blue (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
사랑의 향기 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
Career shape
Star power in the 99th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 44 titles, 43 of them dated from 1994 to 2026; peak year 2023.
Biggest box office
Ashfall (2019)
Highest rated
Secret Sunshine (2007)
Most popular right now
Untold Scandal (2003)
Film career
Peak 2023 · at the high point of their film career. Top draw in 14 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1997Screen debut· The Contact
- 1997First top-billed film· The Contact
- 2007Cannes award win· Secret Sunshine
- 2023Career best· Crash Course in Romance
- 2023Career best· Kill Boksoon
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.
Awards
Won a Cannes award in 2007.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Jeon Do-yeon's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 73rd percentile, the median of all 16; across their 14 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 69th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up9
- 50th to 74th9
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
None of their 19 titles divides audiences: 14 are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser14
- Broadly Agreed2
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the acting 81/100 in their films, across 14 reviewed titles; fans 86, detractors 62. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Jeon Do-yeon's work okay for kids?
Across up to 10 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore, sex & nudity, profanity and frightening / intense run heavier than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Jeon Do-yeon work with?
People who share at least 2 of Jeon Do-yeon's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Lee Byung-hun shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Lee Chang-dongShared titles: Possible Love (2026), Secret Sunshine (2007)See all 2 shared titles with Lee Chang-dong
Actors
- Lee Byung-hunShared titles: Emergency Declaration (2021), Ashfall (2019), Memories of the Sword (2015)See all 3 shared titles with Lee Byung-hun
- Sul Kyung-guShared titles: Possible Love (2026), Kill Boksoon (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Sul Kyung-gu
- Kim Go-eunShared titles: The Price of Confession (2025), Memories of the Sword (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Kim Go-eun
- Hwang Jung-minShared titles: Kill Boksoon (2023), You Are My Sunshine (2005)See all 2 shared titles with Hwang Jung-min
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Kim Ji-yongShared titles: Possible Love (2026), Ashfall (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Kim Ji-yong
- Kim Sang-beomShared titles: Kill Boksoon (2023), The Shameless (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Kim Sang-beom
- Byung-woo LeeShared titles: Emergency Declaration (2021), Untold Scandal (2003)See all 2 shared titles with Byung-woo Lee
- Lee Mo-gaeShared titles: Emergency Declaration (2021), Way Back Home (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Lee Mo-gae
Producers
- Jang Won-seokShared titles: Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020), Way Back Home (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Jang Won-seok
- Myung Chan KangShared titles: Ashfall (2019), Way Back Home (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Myung Chan Kang
- Won-ki ChoiShared titles: Ashfall (2019), Way Back Home (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Won-ki Choi
- Kang-young ShinShared titles: The Shameless (2015), The Housemaid (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Kang-young Shin
Mixed roles
- Kim Byung-seoShared titles: Ashfall (2019), Memories of the Sword (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Kim Byung-seo
