When it comes to Li Ying'ai, everyone without exception will think of the image of a gentle and elegant intellectual beauty. But You must not have imagined Li Ying'ai, who was so scruffy and scruffy like this, right?
The JTBC weekend drama "Gu Jingyi", which will be launched on the 30th of this month, is a new female action chase thriller. The drama tells the story of a 40-generation female detective who has worked as a police officer and has made games and alcohol her entire life, and the comedy detective story that occurs between a serial murder suspect. Li Zhengqin, the director of "Gu Jingyi", directed "Nobody Knows", and the screenwriter was Cheng Chuyi, the screenwriter of "Mist". In the public trailer, Lee Young-ae plays games in a room full of garbage and frantically storms the garbage dump for the investigation of the case, heralding a completely different and out-of-the-box image transformation. The high expectations of the public for the show in the comments under the trailer are also obvious.
Speaking of Lee Young-ae's masterpiece, "The Great ChangJin" should be the answer that everyone will choose. This "work of life" not only has a very profound significance for Li Ying'ai himself, but also a good memory for many viewers. After "Great ChangJin", she rarely appeared in the public eye, but her dignified and gentle image still remains in people's memories like a legend, but in recent years, she has also made some attempts and breakthroughs in acting. Did you know that Lee Young-ai's debut advertisement was filmed with Andy Lau? What other little-known little-known stories are there? Today, let's talk about Li Ying'ai's acting career!
"Oxygen Beauty" in chocolate advertisement
Lee Washik-ae was a cover model for Junior magazine at the age of 15 and stepped into the acting world by chance in 1990 while in college. After participating in the audition for the selection of advertising models, she rushed into the advertising shoot as a substitute for other models on the spot. The product endorsed by Li Ying'ai is the "two you chocolate" that was filmed with Chinese superstar Andy Lau.
Li Ying'ai, who became a star through an advertisement, became a representative advertising star in the 90s, and the "oxygen-like woman" used in the dream cosmetics advertisement became synonymous with Li Ying'ai. Then she turned her attention to acting, and after graduating from the German Department of Hanyang University, Lee Young-ae decided to return to the school to study acting theory and enrich herself.
Stills from "How About Your Husband"
The Legend of the Car God
"Nishinomiya"
In the TV series "How About Your Husband" broadcast in 1993, Li Ying'ai perfectly digested the role of "Du Xi" who left her fiancé to cheat, and won the SBS Acting Awards Newcomer Acting Award that year. With this as a starting point, she gradually accumulated word of mouth by starring and supporting roles in various TV series. In 1995, she played the role of "Kang Dong-hee" who lived a tragic life in the TV series "The Legend of the Car God" and received praise. In the same year, he also showed his first "historical drama acting" in the TV series "West Palace".
A very different period of newcomers than now
"Same Period"
"My Reason to Live"
Although li Ying'ai's pure and dignified image has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, her newcomer period is completely different. In the 1996 TV series "Same Period", she played the captain of the bad society "Park Yongzi", and the following year in the TV series "My Reason for Survival", she played the role of "Jing Ji", who worked for her family in the bar, and successfully completed the breakthrough acting transformation at that time. Li Ying'ai, who has successfully won the MBC Acting Awards Outstanding Acting Award for two consecutive years.
《Insh Allah》
《Hospitality》
In 1997, Lee Made-a-Movie crossed the screen to enter the film industry with the ambitious film Insh Allah, but unfortunately the film failed miserably at the box office. But Lee Young-ae did not succumb to this, and in 1999, as the star of the TV series "Hospitality", once again showed stable acting skills. In particular, "Hospitality", as a work based on the theme of the unusual theme of non-compliance and premarital pregnancy, once became the focus of popular discussion at that time.
The Spark
"Spring Death"
"Common Security Zone"
In 2000, Lee Young-ae starred in the TV series "Spark", which was a success and the ratings soared. In the same year, she co-starred with Lee Byung-hyun and Song Kang-ho in the movie "Common Security Area", and also left a beautiful report card in the film industry. Therefore, Li Ying'ai, who had previously focused on being active on the TV screen, took advantage of the momentum of "Common Security Area" to star in the movies "Gift" and "Spring Death" in 2001, and successively won success and praise in the film field.
TV series and movie "back-to-back home runs"
"The Great ChangJin"
In September 2003, Lee Young-ae's masterpiece, the long-form costume TV series "Dachangjin", which set off a K-pop boom, was launched. Through the role of the protagonist "Xu Changjin" in the play, she perfectly captured the hearts of the public and the public opinion. At the time of the broadcast, the rating of "Dachangjin" remained at about 50%, and won the 2004 Korean Rating Championship with an average rating of 47.8%. And not only in South Korea, the drama's craze has also spread overseas, gaining super popularity in Places such as Japan and China, and is even called "the second "Winter Love Song". Lee Young-ae also won the highest honor of the MBC Acting Awards 13 years after his debut with this work.
"Kind of Gold"
A year after the end of "Great ChangJin", Li Ying'ai returned through the movie "Kind Of Gold". This is a work that allows her to erase the gentle and tenacious image in "The Great Changjin" and narrate the cruel and fierce content. With "Kind Gold", she won the Best Actress Award at the Korea Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Best Actress Award in the Film Department of the Baeksang Arts Awards respectively, consolidating the position of a powerful acting actor.
Break the 12-year gap
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Lee Young-ae left the show business for a while after secretly marrying Jeong Ho-young in Hawaii in 2009 with Jeong Ho-young, a Korean overseas Chinese entrepreneur in the United States. In 2011, she gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, and later concentrated on parenting. Due to the long blank period, there was even a "retreat theory" of Li Ying'ai, but in 2017, Li Ying'ai broke the blank period again, and successfully returned after 12 years through "Shi Ren Tang, The Diary of Light".
Through "Shi Rentang, The Diary of Light", Li Ying'ai's stable acting skills as always received praise, but the play received bad reviews for its unrealistic script and director. Despite this, in the past 10 years, his beauty and flawless acting skills have been loved by fans.
"Please Find Me"
After returning to the TV screen with the new drama "Different Dreams" in 2019, Li Ying'ai returned to the big screen through the new film "Come to Me" after 14 years. In the film, Li Ying'ai touched countless audiences with her fearless "motherly explosion" acting skills. It is said that Lee Young-ae was moved to tears while reading the script of the film and soon decided to star in the work.
In the 9th issue of the IHQ channel "The Hidden Newsroom", which aired last night, it tells the story of Lee Young-ae, who is known as the "oxygen-like woman" and suddenly became a famous actor, from her debut period to her life work "Dachangjin", and became one of the top stars of the K-pop. In particular, the behind-the-scenes story of the secret hawaiian wedding that shocked the public at that time and the appearance of the first press conference with the media reporter as a graduate student after the marriage were also made public, and although Li Ying'ai was dressed in a simple way to meet the media suddenly, her beauty still attracted people's attention. It remains to be seen what kind of surprises and reversals the goddess will bring to us in the upcoming works.