Kim Mi-kyung

Kim Mi-kyung is a South Korean actress known across the country as the nation's drama mother. For forty years, she has played mothers, grandmothers and wise women in so many hit dramas that almost every Korean viewer feels like she raised them. Her warm acting makes every family story feel true.

Kim Mi-kyung is 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) tall.

Early life

Kim Mi-kyung was born on October 14, 1963, in Busan, South Korea. She began acting in theatre in 1985 and spent many years on stage before television made her famous. That long stage career gave her the rich voice and deep emotion that viewers now love in her mother roles.

Career and breakthrough

Kim Mi-kyung became a regular face in television dramas in the 2000s, and by the 2010s she was Korea's most wanted drama mother. She played lead characters' mothers in hit after hit, including The Master's Sun, Another Miss Oh and Go Back Couple (2017), where her scenes as a mother who lost her daughter made the whole country cry.

Popular roles

In The Heirs (2013), Kim Mi-kyung plays Park Hee-nam, the kind housekeeper and mother of the heroine, who cannot speak and communicates with a notebook. Her silent acting touched millions of fans. In Her Private Life (2019), she plays Ko Young-sook, the heroine's mother. She also charmed viewers as the hacker ahjumma in Healer and the warm grandmother in Start-Up (2020).

Recent work and why fans love her

Kim Mi-kyung still appears in several dramas every year, including Doctor Cha (2023) and Welcome to Samdal-ri (2023), and she plays Gong Man-seol in Take Charge of My Heart. Fans love her because her mothers feel real. Kim Mi-kyung can be funny, strict, poor, rich or heartbroken, and her love for her screen children always feels completely true.