Lee Kyung-young is a veteran South Korean actor and film director with a very long career. He is known for strong and serious roles, often as a rich boss, a politician, or a man with a dark secret. New fans may know him from big dramas like Vagabond, Stranger, and Dr. Romantic.

He is 173 cm tall and weighs about 64 kg.

Early life

Lee Kyung-young was born on December 12, 1960, in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province. He was the youngest child in a big family with four sons and two daughters.

Career and breakthrough

He made his film debut in 1987 with a small role in Yeonsan Diary and soon played the lead role of Su-ryong in Adada. In the early 1990s, he became one of the top film actors in Korea. Fans still remember his work in Praise of Death (1991) and White Badge (1992).

Popular roles

On television, he played the cold company head Lee Yun-beom in Stranger (2017). In Vagabond (2019), he played Edward Park, a key man in a story full of secrets and danger. In Dr.

Recent work

He never really stopped working. He acted in The World of the Married in 2020 and in Again My Life in 2022.