Choi Eun-hee
Acting Born Nov 20, 1926 Gwangju, South Korea 24 credits
Biography
Choi Eun-hee (November 20, 1926 – April 16, 2018) was a South Korean actress, who was one of the country's most popular stars of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, Choi and her then ex-husband, movie director Shin Sang-ok, were abducted to North Korea, where they were forced to make films until they sought asylum at the US Embassy in Vienna in 1986. They returned to South Korea in 1999 after spending a decade in the United States.
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Frequent co-stars
Career timeline
Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
The Lovers and the Despot
Runaway
Mounted Bandits
The Monkey Goes West
Red ScarfWhen Night Falls at MyeongdongThe Last Woman of Shang
A Reluctant Prince
Bound by Chastity RuleThe Story of Sim CheongA Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng
Iljimae the Chivalrous RobberSeong Chun-hyangUnder the Sky in SeoulMother and a Guest
To the Last DayRomance Papa
A Sister's Garden
A Country GirlThe Flower in HellThe MoneyA College Woman's Confession
The Youth
Full filmography
- Bound by Chastity Rule (1962)
- A Reluctant Prince (1963)
- The Story of Sim Cheong (1962)
- To the Last Day (1960) as Hye-kyung
- Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber (1961) as Yeon-hwa
- Red Scarf (1964) as Ji-seon
- The Youth (1955) as Lee In-hwa
- When Night Falls at Myeongdong (1964)
- Romance Papa (1960) as Eum-jeon
- A Country Girl (1958) as Kim Ok-gyeong
- The Monkey Goes West (1966)
- Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim (2024) as Herself
- The Flower in Hell (1958) as Sonia
- The Money (1958) as Ok-gyeong
- The Last Woman of Shang (1964)
- Mounted Bandits (1967)
- Seong Chun-hyang (1961) as Seong Chun-hyang
- Runaway (1984) as Song Ryul's wife
- Under the Sky in Seoul (1961) as Kim Hyeon-ok
- Mother and a Guest (1961) as Mother
- The Lovers and the Despot (2016) as Self - Actress / Various Roles
- A College Woman's Confession (1958) as So-yeong
- A Sister's Garden (1959) as Jeong-hui
- A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng (1962) as Ipbun