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Shin Eun-soo

Shin Eun-soo

Actor · Born October 22, 2002 (24) · Seoul, South Korea

Shin Eun-soo (신은수, born October 23, 2002) is a South Korean actress. She made her acting debut in 2016 by winning the lead role alongside Gang Dong-won in the fantasy feature film Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned out of more than 300 auditionees. Her television and film credits include playing the younger version of Jun Ji-hyun in The Legend of the Blue Sea (2016), Bad Papa (2018)—for which she won the MBC Drama Award for Best Young Actress—Homme Fatale (2019), Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol (2020), and The Good Detective 2 (2022). She earned critical acclaim for her performance as the deaf student Yoon Chung-ah in the youth drama Twinkling Watermelon (2023) and starred in the Netflix retro romance film Love Untangled (2025).

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
October 22, 2002 (24)
From
Seoul, South Korea
Works as
Actor
Titles
8 on MovieCove · 27 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 157 days to Oct 28Up 8% in 30 days

What are Shin Eun-soo's films like?

Across their 7 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.

Themes

share of theme weight
Self
29%
Bonds
27%
Morality
15%
Survival
10%
Power
8%
Ideas
6%
Society
4%
Romantic love3 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 5 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Serious: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their serious movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 1 · Dark 2

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 1 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 1

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 1 · Charged 3 · Intense 1

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 2 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 1

Some laughs: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their some laughs movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 1

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 0 · Even-paced 5 · Relentless 0

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 1 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 1

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 4 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0

Roles they play

2 analyzed roles

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
3
Romantic
3
Hopeful
3
Dread
2
Melancholic
2
Other
6

How their films linger

Thought-provoking4 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet3 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling4 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end

  • Happy2
  • Bittersweet4
  • Ambiguous1

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 Shin Eun-soo's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Shin Eun-soo'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

27 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.

  • Project 30 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    Actor

  • Love Untangled(2025)

    as Park Se-ri

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films

  • Light Shop (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

    Show 8 episodes · as Joo Hyeon-ju

  • Hey, Come Here (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

    Show 1 episode · Actor

  • Tastes of Horror(2023)

    as Yoo-kyung (segment "Four Legged Beast")

    Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films

  • Twinkling Watermelon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Show 16 episodes · as Yoon Chung-ah

  • Nineteen Otters (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)

    as Kim Jae Young

  • Summer Strike (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)

    Show 12 episodes · as Kim Bom

  • A Model Family(2022)

    Show 10 episodes · as Park Yeon-woo

    Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all shows

  • Bloody Heart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)

    Show 3 episodes · as Yoo Jeong [Young]

  • Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol(2020)

    Show 16 episodes · as Jin Ha-Young

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows

  • SF8 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Show 1 episode · as Hye-hwa

  • Baby It's Over Outside (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Actor

  • House on Wheels(2020)

    Show 2 episodes · Actor

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows

  • Homme Fatale(2019)

    as Sook-jung

    Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films

  • Bad Papa (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Show 32 episodes · as Yoo Young-Sun

  • Illang: The Wolf Brigade(2018)

    as Little Red Riding Hood

    Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films

  • 문집 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    as Shin S- Yi

  • Drama Stage (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Show 1 episode · as Shin So Yi

  • Magic School (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Show 20 episodes · as Han Yi-Seul

  • The Shower (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    as Girl (voice)

  • Chang-ok's Letter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Show 4 episodes · as Hye-jung

  • Chang-ok's Letter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    as Hye-jung

  • The Legend of the Blue Sea (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Show 20 episodes · as Young Se-hwa

  • Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned(2016)

    as Su-rin

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films

  • KBS Drama Special (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

    Show 1 episode · as Kim Jae-young

  • 협반 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Show 1 episode · as Lee Ru-ri

Career shape

Star power in the 95th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 27 titles, 26 of them dated from 2010 to 2026; peak year 2025.

Biggest box office

Illang: The Wolf Brigade (2018)

$6.2M worldwide

Highest rated

Love Untangled (2025)

Midcredits 92nd

Film career

20102026

Peak 2025 · their film career is on the way up. 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.

  • 2016Screen debut· Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned
  • 2025First top-billed film· Love Untangled

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting27 of 27: 27 only acting, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score64th

By decade

2010s12 · acting2020s14 · acting

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.

How do Shin Eun-soo's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 70th percentile, the median of all 5; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 63rd percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

63rdpercentile
Typical film, the median of 5

Approval · how many liked their films

74thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 5

Reach · how many have seen their films

80thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 5

Midcredits score across 8 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up3
  • 50th to 74th2
  • 25th to 49th2
  • Below 25th1

Shape of the crowd

4 of their 8 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Loved1
  • Crowd Pleaser4
  • Broadly Agreed1
  • Mixed2

Most divisive · actor

Homme Fatale (2019)

55th percentile spread · 10% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · actor

Love Untangled (2025)

Midcredits 92nd · 77% liked

Reviewers score the acting 70/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 77, detractors 45. 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.

Who does Shin Eun-soo work with?

People who share at least 2 of Shin Eun-soo's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Gong Myoung shares the most, 2.

Actors

Composers