Lee Chae-kyung

Actor · Born January 22, 1975 (51) · Ulsan, South Korea

After debuting in the musical Empress Myeongseong in 1999, Chae Kyung worked for eight years as an actor for the renowned Seoul Performing Arts Company until 2007. For over 20 years, she has appeared in over 100 musicals, plays, TV shows and films including Horror Stories (2012), She Was Pretty (2015), Guardian (2016), Hide-and-Seek (2016), 100 Days My Prince (2018), Hotel del Luna (2019), and #Alive (2020). Originally a physical education major in college, she applies the same discipline in preparation for her roles as an actor. With utmost dedication to her craft, her powerful performances can be seen both on the stage and silver screen. @chaekyung_lee_

What are Lee Chae-kyung's films like?

Across their 9 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.

Themes

share of theme weight

Self

44%

Bonds

16%

Ideas

11%

Morality

11%

Survival

10%

Society

4%

Power

3%

Romantic love4 Memory3 Identity3 Self-worth2 Fate2 Justice2

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense

6

Melancholic

5

Hopeful

4

Romantic

2

Contemplative

2

Other

8

How their films linger

Hopeful4 Thought-provoking4 Feel-good3 Bittersweet2 Cathartic2 Haunting2

How their films end · 4 with a twist

Happy2
Bittersweet4
Ambiguous3

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 Lee Chae-kyung's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 21 of their 22 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (11).

Also on these channels

KOCOWA9 titles, show their 9 titles on KOCOWA
CJ ENM Selects5 titles, show their 5 titles on CJ ENM Selects

Subscription and free streaming for Lee Chae-kyung'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

32 credits, 22 with a MovieCove page.

Isle Child(2025)
as Dream Birthmother
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
Perfect Crown(2026)
Show 2 episodes · as Lim Sun-hwa
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows
Climax (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Show 3 episodes · Actor
Humming (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Actor
Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight(2025)
as Doctor
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Prism of Gray Rock (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Actor
Desperate Mrs. Seonju(2024)
Show 126 episodes · as Oh Hye-ran
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale(2024)
Show 2 episodes · as Lily Cho
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all shows
Chicken Nugget(2024)
Show 1 episode · as Baek-joong's mother
Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all shows
Flex x Cop(2024)
Show 2 episodes · as Cha Se-ran
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
The Auditors(2024)
Show as Im Yoo-seon
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows
Gyeong-ah's Daughter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
as 윤상순 (치매노인 딸/변호사)
Insider (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Show 1 episode · as [Young Gook's wife]
Jirisan (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Show 6 episodes · as Choi Il-man's Wife
Sell Your Haunted House(2021)
Show 16 episodes · as Secretary Choi
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows
Love Scene Number(2021)
Show 2 episodes · as CEO Young
Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Georgia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
as Mother
#Alive(2020)
as Masked Man's Wife
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
365: Repeat the Year(2020)
Show as Kim Soo-yeon
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all shows
Hotel Del Luna(2019)
Show 3 episodes · as Director of Royal Pacific Hotel
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows
Her Private Life(2019)
Show 1 episode · as Choi Eun-Hye
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all shows
I Wanna Hear Your Song(2019)
Show as Kim Soo-in (Jang-yoon's mother)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all shows
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty(2018)
Show 1 episode · as Kelen's team leader
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows
Pepper (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
as Noah's Mother
Because This Is My First Life(2017)
Show 2 episodes · as Furniture saleswoman
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
Voice(2017)
Show 1 episode · as Do Mi-young
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all shows
Dr. Romantic(2016)
Show 2 episodes · as [Patient's mother]
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Beautiful Gong Shim(2016)
Show 20 episodes · as Jun-pyo's birth mother
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all shows
Overman (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
as Psychiatrist
Signal(2016)
Show 1 episode · as Jin-woo's Mother
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
W(2016)
Show as Nurse Jung
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows
She Was Pretty (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Show 3 episodes · as Children's Book Author Lee

Career shape

Star power in the 83^rd percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 28 titles, 27 of them dated from 2015 to 2026; peak year 2020.

Biggest box office

#Alive (2020)

$13M worldwide

Highest rated

W (2016)

Midcredits 92^nd

Film career

20152026

Peak 2020 · steadily prominent in film for years. 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· Beautiful Gong Shim
2020First film· #Alive

By role

only this rolewith another role

Acting28 of 28 · 79^th

By decade

2010s11 · acting2020s16 · 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.

Who does Lee Chae-kyung work with?

People who share at least 2 of Lee Chae-kyung's MovieCove titles; Oh Hee-joon shares the most, 2.

Oh Hee-joon2 titles See all 2 shared titles with Oh Hee-joon