Baek Ji-won
Baek Ji-won (백지원) is a South Korean actress best known as Han Seon-young, the law firm CEO in Extraordinary Attorney Woo, and as Sister Kim In-kyung in The Fiery Priest. She is with Lead Entertainment.
Beyond the screen.
Baek Ji-won is a South Korean actress who spent more than twenty years on stage before television made her widely known. She is best known as Han Seon-young, the clever chief of a large law firm in Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022), and as a nun with a hidden past in The Fiery Priest (2019).
She is 162 cm tall and works with Lead Entertainment.
Early life
Baek Ji-won was born on April 30, 1973, in Hongseong, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. She studied horticultural science at Kyung Hee University.
Career and breakthrough
Her screen work grew step by step, with parts in Encounter (2018) and Be Melodramatic (2019). Her breakthrough came with The Fiery Priest, where she played Sister Kim In-kyung, a kind nun who had once lived as a gambler.
Popular roles
In Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022), she plays Han Seon-young, the cool CEO of Hanbada law firm, who hires Woo Young-woo and protects her in her own way. In Once Again (2020), she played Jang Ok-ja in the hit family drama, which ran for one hundred episodes.
Recent work and why fans love her
She plays Ok Gye-hui in Spooky in Love (2026) and Baek Seon-hee in The Substitute (2026). She won Best Supporting Actress at the 2022 APAN Star Awards.
A career, chapter by chapter.
Selected drama roles
- Spooky in Love — Ok Gye-hui
- The Fiery Priest — Kim In-Kyung
- The Substitute — Baek Seon-hee
- Extraordinary Attorney Woo — Han Seon-young
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