Jang Dong-gun
Jang Dong -gun ( born March 7, 1972 in Seoul) is a South Korean actor and musician.
After childhood in Yongsan -gu, Seoul, he went to Hangook School of Arts. His television debut came in the series Our Heaven and celebrated in 1994 its national breakthrough in The Final Jump. A self-professed Buddhist is also musically successful, but so far he brought out four albums.
1997 Jang made her debut in a movie ( Repechage ) which earned him the Blue Dragon Best New Actor Award earned. Two years later he won the prize for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a cop in Nowhere to Hide. In 2000, he played in the then record-breaking film Friend about a high school student of the Korean mafia join. In 2004, he joined the Brotherhood, directed by Kang Je - gyu on. This gambling during the Korean Civil War film was again a great success, and is now applicable with more than 11.74 million viewers as one of the most successful films in the country. For this he won the third Blue Dragon Award. In 2005, he suffered with Typhoon, the hitherto most expensive Korean film of all time, but a " shipwreck ".
Jang has worked in his home country and in the advertising industry. It promotes, among other things, published in January 2007 in South Korea Nintendo DS Lite and related programs such as Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training and a game for the playful training in the English language.
Since 2010, he is married to actress Ko So -young. Together they have a son and a daughter.