Park Ah-in (born 12 February 1985)[1] is a South Korean actress.[2] She is an alumna of Chung-Ang University, Department of Theater and Film, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Theater Studies. She made her acting debut in 2006 in the horror film Forbidden Floor and since then has appeared in a number of films and television series, including Loner (2008), A Gentleman's Dignity (2012), Descendants of the Sun (2016), Never Twice (2019) and Kkondae Intern (2020).[3]
Park Ah-in | |
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![]() Park Ah-in in May 2019. | |
Born | (1985-02-12) 12 February 1985 (age 37) Busan, South Korea |
Education | BA in Theater Studies |
Alma mater | Chung-Ang University |
Occupation |
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Years active | 2006–present |
Agent | Zenstars |
Korean name | |
Hangul | |
Revised Romanization | Bak Ain |
McCune–Reischauer | Pak Ain |
Park was born in Busan, South Korea, and graduated from the Department of Theater and Film at Chung-Ang University.[4] She got married on November 7, 2020, at the Oksu-dong Cathedral in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, her spouse being unrelated to the entertainment industry.[5][6]
Park started her acting career with the horror film Forbidden Floor in 2006.[7]
In 2008, she took on the role of policewoman Hanakoin in a stage play Atami Murder Case organized by the Chung-Ang University Performing Film Arts Center.[8]
In 2016, she was cast in the award-winning and popular show of the year Descendants of the Sun as Kim Eun-ji, a thoracic surgery specialist.[9] The same year she also appeared in the mystery thriller Babysitter and another award-winning tvN drama The Good Wife.[10]
In 2018, she starred in tvN's historical romance Mr. Sunshine, where she portrayed a woman who is unable to bear a child so she is regularly abused by her husband. The drama was praised by Park Jin-hai of The Korea Times for its strong female characters.[11]
In 2019, she played Lily, an assassin in the spy crime-thriller Vagabond. For her portrayal of an assassin, she was nominated in the Best New Actress category for SBS Drama Awards.[12] In the same year she also portrayed a Korean version of Paris Hilton as the granddaughter of the chairman and founder of Guseong Hotel, where she also is the head of marketing, in MBC's comedy drama Never Twice.[13]
In 2020, Park appeared as Tak Jeong-eun, a 5-year contract worker of the Marketing Department at Joon Soo Foods, in Kkondae Intern, an MBC TV drama broadcast from May - June, 2020. In the same year she made her first variety show appearance on SBS's comedy show Park-Jang's LOL.[14]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2006 | Forbidden Floor | [7] | ||
2008 | Loner | [7] | ||
2010 | Outlaw | Woman with no brain | [7] | |
2012 | Project 577 | Self | ||
2013 | Top Star | Won-joon's female junior colleague 2 | ||
Friends 2 | Female singer | [15] | ||
2019 | Hoop It Up | Yoo-jin | ||
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2010 | Bad Man | Da-rim | [7] | |
2012 | A Gentleman's Dignity | Attorney Kang | [7] | |
2014 | Mama | Suzy | [7] | |
Discovery of Love | Da-yeon | [7] | ||
2016 | Descendants of the Sun | Kim Eun-ji (Thoracic Surgery Specialist) | [7] | |
Babysitter | ||||
The Good Wife | Lee Yeon-joo – lawyer | |||
2017 | Manhole | Park Young-joo | ||
2018 | Mr. Sunshine | Go Ae-soon | [16] | |
2018-19 | Clean with Passion for Now | Lee Young-eun, woman in office cleaned by Oh-sol (Ep. 3) | Special appearance | |
My Strange Hero | Yang Min-ji | [17] | ||
2019 | He Is Psychometric | |||
Welcome to Waikiki 2 | Da-young (Ep. 5) | Special appearance | [18] | |
My Absolute Boyfriend | ||||
Vagabond | Lily, an assassin hired by Jessica | [19] | ||
2019-20 | Never Twice | Na Hae-ri | [20] | |
2020 | Kkondae Intern | Tak Jung-eun | [21] | |
Sweet Home | The girl next door | Guest appearance | [22] | |
2021 | Moonshine | [23] |
Year | Title | Hangul | Notes | Ref. |
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2020 | Park-Jang's LOL | 박장데소 | Debut | [14][24] |
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | SBS Drama Awards | Best Supporting Team -with Park Ah-in, Choi Dae-chul, Kim Jung-hyun and Moon Jeong-hee | Vagabond | Nominated | [12] |
Best New Actress | Nominated |
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