She was familiar to Chinese audiences for starring in the second daughter-in-law in "The Men of the Bathhouse Owner", which was her comeback after divorce, and did not experience the crisis of many middle-aged actresses without drama to shoot, but instead held the Oscar at the age of 73 and became the pride of Koreans.
Born in 1947 in Gyeonggi-do, Seoul's wealthy district, Yoon Yoo-jeong was admitted to the prestigious Hanyang University for her excellent grades, and in 1966 she gave up her major in Chinese languages to recruit actors through the third phase of Toyo Radio TBC to enter the show business.
In 1971, she won the heroine color of the TV series "Zhang Xi Concubine" through the audience election, and successfully played a beautiful and vicious woman. In the same year, she starred in her first film "Fire Girl", which won the "Best Actress" award at several film festivals in South Korea, and Grandma Yin was a real hit.
In 1996, this was the era when Korean dramas began to become popular in China, and a "Bathhouse Owner's Man" made many viewers aware of the charm of Korean comedy, Yin Ruzhen starred as the elegant and noble second daughter-in-law Huiying, which was her comeback after divorce.
First, the strange ex-husband
In 1972, she met Zhao Yingnan, a musical talent two years older than her, who was not only humorous but also good at painting. Yin Ruzhen, who was popular, chose to get married and disappeared, and followed Zhao Yingnan to settle in the United States.
They have two sons, and Yin Ruzhen's life as a full-time wife is not as good as imagined. Later, she summed up her life in one sentence, cleaning the room and taking care of the children like a maid every day, day after day. She wanted to read the English book for a while, and when her husband saw it, he would say, take care of the children first. She could only put down the book in her hand.
Korean machismo is deeply rooted, although Yoon Yoo-jeong herself is not a woman with a weak personality, but in the face of too many trivial housework, she has gradually lost her strong side, she thinks that taking care of the family can tie a man's heart, and a family together is happiness.
Probably seeing Yin Ruzhen's hidden forbearance, in 1984 Zhao Yingnan not only cheated, but also openly brought Xiaosan home and asked Yin Ruzhen and the children to accept Xiaosan and live together. Years of effort in exchange for the man's intensification, this perverted approach has finally angered the stubborn Yin Ruzhen, she filed for divorce, asked for custody of the child.
After Yin Ruzhen won the Oscar, his ex-husband sent her flowers to show her kindness, and Yin Ruzhen said that if she sent it again, she would call the police. Not only that, but he also openly said that it was because she left me that she can have today's achievements, although it is true that a man is so shameless and really strange.
Her ex-husband, Zhao Yingnan, was very wealthy and was said to have inherited a large inheritance. When the media interviewed him about his relationship with his two sons, he said that his son ignored him, and he also admitted that Yin Ruzhen had educated his son well and that he was ashamed to be a father. He admitted that the infidelity was his problem, but he could not apologize. After this interview was broadcast on television, it even caused controversy among the audience, with one group of people saying that he deserved it and had such a lonely and old retribution, while another group of people said that the past had become a cloud of smoke and there was no point in mentioning it again. It's just that his repeated practice of coming out to rub the heat is too speechless.
Second, Yin Ruzhen's comeback
When Yoon yoo-jeong returned to South Korea with her two sons in 1984, she decided to raise them on her own. At this time she was 37 years old and had lost the best of an actress's youth. The low status of women in Japan and South Korea, not only divorced but also with two children, was looked down upon by many people in South Korea in the 80s, and even some viewers called the radio station that year to boycott her program.
Yin Ruzhen herself is also very worried about whether she can still be an actor, after all, after more than ten years of leaving, the audience has long since remembered her name. And the reputation of divorced women in South Korea is not good, there are very few directors who look for her to act, even if she is given roles, they are all "women who go to the United States" and "divorced women" and other unpleasant roles.
Although it was her ex-husband's cheating that led to the divorce, she did not receive alimony and compensation. For the sake of her two children, she took on any kind of small role. She herself feels that the most obvious change brought to her after the divorce is that she has opened up, and after experiencing pain, she knows how to perform sadness, and there is no way in vain in life.
Seven years after the divorce, the screenwriter and good friend Kim So-hyun gave Yin Ruzhen a role, and the mother of the heroine in "What Is Love", the 44-year-old Yin Ruzhen, played the role of mother for the first time. The show caught fire in South Korea and hit a 77% rating. It became a Korean national drama and was introduced to China by CCTV in 1997.
The fire of this drama brought Yin Ruzhen back to the audience's vision, Yin Ruzhen's early voice was denied by a famous director, and later because of Yin Ruzhen's excellent acting skills, the unique voice line became her characteristic.
In 1995, "The Men of the Bathhouse Owner's Family" became another popular drama, Yin Ruzhen played a grandmother with literary and artistic style, who likes to read poetry, and she is a flirtatious little woman in the eyes of her in-laws and family members who open a bathhouse for a living, and her husband can't do anything with her. Yin Ruzhen was successful on the small screen.
In 2003, Yoon Yoo-jeong returned to the big screen, and the film "Secret Love Family" was nominated for several awards, winning the MBC Korea Film Broadcasting Award and the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 4th Busan International Film Festival. This caused a sensation in South Korea and brought great changes to Yoon's life.
In 2012, Yin Ruzhen, who was 65 years old, was even more dominant, dedicating herself to the large-scale movie "The Taste of Money" and staging a large-scale passion scene with the 31-year-old actor Kim Kang-woo. No violation and more is stunning, she is a woman with unique charm. It can be a loving and peaceful grandmother, or a devastated and kind old prostitute, her play path is as rich as her life experience.
Yin Ruzhen began to make films continuously, not only filming, but also filming photos, being a judge, and participating in variety shows.
No one could have imagined that God left her best gift for the year she was 73 years old, and she won the 93rd Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Minari," the first actor in South Korea to win the award and the third in Asia to win the award. Yin Ruzhen conquered the judges and the audience with her acting skills.
Third, the real Yin Ruzhen
Yin Ruzhen in south Korea's showbiz is a real evergreen tree, she is not afraid of the challenge of the younger generation, but has received a lot of respect, the TV station for her to shoot a documentary from the art of 55 years, invited many guests, including Song Huiqiao, who rarely appears in variety shows, also came to the scene, because they are friends who have 14 years of friendship, and often drink red wine to talk.
Age is an increase in experience, not a career obstacle. She lives a transparent life, and she doesn't care about worldly evaluations. She has her own views on the profession of actor, she said: "As an actor, it is normal to encounter roles that you don't like and have to play, just like stepping on, bad luck, but still gaining a role." 」 "She's just that kind of capable of seeing the positive side of bad things."
In 2009, South Korea recorded the lives of several elderly actresses in the form of a semi-documentary and a half-movie, Yin Ruzhen appeared with a cigarette, her face was cool to tell her divorce and comeback, when it came to the tragic place, other actresses would silently sob, Yin Ruzhen raised her glass and said: "What are you crying?" Drink bar everyone. ”
In 2017, when she was 70 years old, and also the 50th year of entering the film and television career, the TV station also tailored a food variety show "Yin Canteen" for her, which became the hottest program of the year.
In addition to the role in the film, Yin Ruzhen always likes cool looks, and one of her symbols is the small round sunglasses, the tail ring on the little finger, and the cigarette or red wine in her hand. The Koreans even coined the word "Yoon infiltration" for her, meaning that no one could resist her charm.
Yin Ruzhen's personality is frank, even a little stubborn. She didn't attend oscar celebrations because she came to the United States only to see her son, and nothing else mattered. At the award ceremony, he directly rejected the sponsorship of many big-name clothing and picked a dress of his favorite Egyptian niche brand.
She can use the curling device of 30 years ago to take care of the meticulous bangs, Yin Ruzhen's delicacy penetrates into the bones, rather than for people to appreciate, she has a quiet and spoiled soul, low-key and indifferent temperament. If one day you see a fashionable grandmother on the street wearing Converse and walking around with BIRKIN, don't be surprised.
The little golden man in Yin Ruzhen's hand is the best response to the cheating man, thanks to the little three and the strange ex-husband of the year, their shameless achievement of an Oscar queen.
In "The Man who Owned the Bathhouse Owner", Hui Ying has a line: "Before I was Grandma, I was a woman first." This is what Yin Ruzhen taught us, first play yourself, in order to be competent for other roles in life.
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