Yoo Seung-ho
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Born | Incheon, South Korea | August 17, 1993
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1999–present |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Yu Seung-ho |
McCune–Reischauer | Yu Sŭngho |
Yoo Seung-ho (Korean: 유승호; Hanja: 俞承豪; born August 17, 1993) is a South Korean actor who rose to fame as a child actor in the film The Way Home (2002). Since then, he has starred in many television series and movie films as a child and teenager.
After his two-year mandatory military service, he starred in the legal drama Remember (2015), historical films Joseon Magician (2015) and Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River (2016) as well as historical drama The Emperor: Owner of the Mask (2017), romance comedy series I'm Not a Robot (2017), and SBS's high school drama My Strange Hero (2018).
Early life and education[]
Born and raised in Incheon, Yoo is the younger of two siblings, he later claimed that his family had been poor.[3]
Yoo graduated from Baekshin High School in February 2012. He decided not to pursue a college degree in order to concentrate on his acting career.[4][5][6]
Career[]
1999–2009: Beginnings as a child actor[]
Yoo made his entertainment debut in a cellphone commercial in 1999 after Yoo's mother sent in a photo of her son to an ad agency.[3]
In 2000 Yoo began his career as a child actor, first appearing in the television drama Daddy Fish.[7] He rose to stardom in his first film The Way Home, playing a bratty city boy who learns to appreciate country life when he's forced to spend the summer with his deaf-mute grandmother.[8] The low-budget film was a surprise box office hit in 2002, drawing more than 4 million admissions.[9] He was then affectionately labeled as "Nation's Little Brother".[10] Thereafter, Yoo also starred in animal movie Hearty Paws (2006) about a boy and his beloved dog, and Unforgettable (2008) about school children from a remote island who go on a field trip to a candy factory in Seoul during the 1970s.[11][12][13]
He continued acting in television, appearing in Magic Warriors Mir & Gaon (2005), an adventure series for children. Yoo further built his filmography, playing younger counterparts of male protagonists in television dramas, including general Yi Sun-sin in Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin (2004), King Seongjong in The King and I (2007), and Gwanggaeto the Great in The Legend (2007).[14]
In 2009, Yoo starred in the action film City of Fathers and thriller film 4th Period Mystery.[15][16] He also played Kim Chunchu in the period epic Queen Seondeok.[17]
2010–2014: Teen roles[]
In his teens, Yoo was cast in one of the major roles in Master of Study (2010), a Korean screen adaptation of Japanese manga Dragon Zakura.[18][19][20] He then played a more mature role in Flames of Desire, as the second-generation son of a wealthy chaebol family who is uninterested in the battles of succession among his relatives and becomes a married man at 21.[21] Later that year, Yoo sang a duet with singer/actress IU titled "Believe in Love" for the charity program Love Request. The song's lyrics was based on a diary that Yoo had written while seeing orphans of war in the slums of Sri Lanka.[22]
In 2011, Yoo trained in swordplay and martial arts in his role as an assassin in Warrior Baek Dong-soo, an action-period drama based on the manhwa by Lee Jae-heon.[23] He also voiced Greenie, Leafie's adopted son, on Leafie, a Hen into the Wild, which was adapted from a bestselling children's novel by Hwang Sun-mi.[24] He then co-starred with Kim Ha-neul in the thriller Blind.[25]
In 2012, Yoo was cast in his first role as a leading man in Operation Proposal, a Korean remake of the Japanese drama Proposal Daisakusen.[26][27] This was followed by a supporting role as the Jade Emperor, ruler of the heavens, in the fantasy-period drama Arang and the Magistrate.[28][29] Afterwards, he starred in the melodrama Missing You, playing a cold man who hides a vengeance-filled heart behind his seemingly gentle smile.[30][31][32]
Known in the press as "Little So Ji-sub" for his resemblance to the said actor, in 2013 Yoo starred in the music video for So's single "Eraser" together with Park Shin-hye. This was his second time promoting So's musical endeavors, after "Lonely Life" in 2008.[33][34] Following that, Yoo's first photo book titled Travel Letter, Spring Snow, And... was published; it was the last project shot by celebrity photographer Bori before her death on April 9, 2013.[35]
2015–present: Adult roles and rising popularity[]
As his first post-army project, Yoo appeared in the music video for Naul's "You From the Same Time" in 2015.[36] He was next cast as a stubborn webcomic writer raising a cat in the TV adaptation of webtoon Imaginary Cat.[37][38] Yoo followed this by starring in the joseon-era romance film The Magician directed by Kim Dae-seung, in which he plays a circus magician who falls in love with a princess.[39] Yoo was then cast in SBS's legal thriller series Remember as a lawyer with hyperthymesia who defends his father on death row.[40]
In 2016, Yoo starred in the historical comedy film Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River as the titular character Kim Seon-dal.[41][42] In 2017, he starred in MBC's historical melodrama The Emperor: Owner of the Mask[43][44] and romantic-comedy I'm Not a Robot.[45] In 2018, he was cast in SBS's high school drama My Strange Hero.[46] In 2020, Yoo starred in the mystery thriller Memorist as a detective in the police force with the power to read people's memories.[47] Yoo Seung-ho was scheduled to appear in film 'Firefighter', but when the filming was postponed in the aftermath of a novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), Yoo Seung-ho got off the film project due to schedule problems.[48]
Personal life[]
Yoo enlisted for his mandatory military service in the army on March 5, 2013, where he reportedly became an instructor training new recruits.[49][5][50][51][52][53] He was discharged on December 4, 2014.[54][55]
Filmography[]
Film[]
Year | Title | Role | Ref. |
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2002 | The Way Home | Sang-woo | [8] |
2003 | Happy Ero Christmas | Children's angel choir | [56] |
2004 | Don't Tell Papa | Kim Cho-won | [57] |
2006 | Hearty Paws | Chan-yi | [11] |
2008 | Unforgettable | Gil-su | [12] |
2009 | Astro Boy | Astro Boy (voice, Korean dubbed) | [58] |
City of Fathers | Kim Jong-chul | [15] | |
4th Period Mystery | Han Jung-hoon | [16] | |
2011 | Leafie, A Hen into the Wild | Greenie (voice) | [24] |
Blind | Kwon Gi-seob | [25] | |
2012 | Fragments of Sweet Memories (3D short film) | [59][60] | |
2015 | Joseon Magician | Hwan-hee | [39] |
2016 | Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River | Kim In-hong / Kim Seon-dal | [41] |
Television series[]
Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes | Ref. |
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2000 | Daddy Fish | Jung Da-um | MBC | [61] | |
2001 | Boys Don't Cry | Doo-san | Drama Special | ||
It Happened in the Parking Lot | |||||
2003 | All That Ramen | Joon-young | |||
Winter Bird's Dream | Joon-ho | ||||
Love Letter | young Lee Woo-jin | ||||
2004 | Hi, Clementine | Se-beom | Drama Special | ||
Sweet Buns | young Lee Shin-hyuk | [62] | |||
Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin | young Yi Sun-sin | KBS1 | [63] | ||
Precious Family | Park Joon-yi | KBS2 | [64] | ||
2005 | Sad Love Story | young Seo Joon-young | MBC | [65] | |
Magic Warriors Mir & Gaon | Mir | KBS2 | [66] | ||
2006 | Beating Again | Wang Hae-ryong | Tooniverse | [67] | |
2007 | The King and I | young Seongjong | SBS | [68][69] | |
The Legend | young Damdeok | MBC | |||
2009 | Queen Seondeok | Kim Chunchu | [17] | ||
You're Beautiful | Customer at convenience store | SBS | Cameo, episode 9 | ||
2010 | Master of Study | Hwang Baek-hyun | KBS2 | [19] | |
Flames of Desire | Kim Min-jae | MBC | [21] | ||
2011 | Warrior Baek Dong-soo | Yeo Woon | SBS | [23] | |
2012 | Operation Proposal | Kang Baek-ho | TV Chosun | [27] | |
Arang and the Magistrate | Jade Emperor, King of Heaven | MBC | [28] | ||
Missing You | Kang Hyung-joon / Harry Borrison | [31] | |||
2013 | Homo Academicus | Documentary narrator | KBS1 | Narrator | [70] |
2015 | Imaginary Cat | Hyun Jong-hyun | MBC Every 1 | [37] | |
2015–2016 | Remember | Seo Jin-woo | SBS | [40] | |
2017 | The Emperor: Owner of the Mask | Lee Sun | MBC | [43] | |
2017–2018 | I'm Not a Robot | Kim Min-kyu | [45] | ||
2018 | Player | Lee Han-sang | OCN | Cameo, episode 1 | [71] |
2018–2019 | My Strange Hero | Kang Bok Soo | SBS | [46] | |
2020 | Memorist | Dong Baek | tvN | [47] | |
2021 | When Flowers Bloom, I Think of the Moon | Nam Young | KBS2 | [72] |
Discography[]
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Sales (digital) |
Album |
---|---|---|---|---|
KOR Gaon [73] | ||||
"I Believe in Love" (사랑을 믿어요) (Yoo Seung-ho feat. IU) |
2010 | 11 |
|
Road for Hope. |
Bibliography[]
Year | Title | Publisher | ISBN | Notes | Ref. |
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2013 | Travel Letter, Spring Snow, And... | Wisdom House | ISBN 9788959137268 | Photobook | [35] |
Awards and nominations[]
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2002 | 39th Grand Bell Awards | Best New Actor | The Way Home | Nominated | |
2003 | 24th Young Artist Awards | Best Young Performer in International Film | Won | [75] | |
2005 | KBS Drama Awards | Best Young Actor | Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin, Precious Family | Won | [76] |
2007 | 1st Korea Movie Star Awards | Heart Is... | Won | [77] | |
SBS Drama Awards | The King and I | Won | [78] | ||
2008 | 2nd Mnet 20's Choice Awards | Hot Younger Male | N/A | Won | [79] |
2009 | 4th Andre Kim Best Star Awards | Male Star Award | N/A | Won | [80] |
MBC Drama Awards | Best New Actor | Queen Seondeok | Won | [81] | |
2010 | 46th Baeksang Arts Awards | Best New Actor (Film) | 4th Period Mystery | Nominated | |
Best New Actor (TV) | Master of Study | Nominated | |||
26th Korea Best Dressed Swan Awards | Best Dressed, TV Actor category | Won | [82] | ||
KBS Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries | Nominated | |||
2012 | MBC Drama Awards | Arang and the Magistrate, Missing You | Nominated | ||
2013 | New Soldiers Education Unit | Excellence Award from the Battalion Commander | N/A | Won | |
2016 | 9th Korea Drama Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actor | Remember | Nominated | |
SBS Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actor in a Genre Drama | Won | [83] | ||
2017 | MBC Drama Awards | Grand Prize (Daesang) | The Emperor: Owner of the Mask | Nominated | |
Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries | Won | [84] | |||
2019 | SBS Drama Awards | My Strange Hero | Nominated |
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