Dennis Oh is an American

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and

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based in South Korea.

Early life and education

Oh majored in photography at the

Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is a private nonprofit art school with locations in Savannah, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Lacoste, France. Founded in 1978 to provide degrees in programs not yet offered in the southeast of the Uni ...

. He is an artist whose hobbies include drawing, traveling, and photography.

Career

Oh started modeling at the age of 16 and won the 22nd Korean model "Best Dressed" in 2005. Oh starred in the MBC miniseries '' Sweet Spy'' ("''Dalkom-han Seupai''") and has also acted in commercials across Asia, including

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

and

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. In the drama, he appears as a mysterious spy who falls in love with an ordinary female police officer. He appeared in an episode of the 2009 series of '' Melrose Place''. In 2016, he is starring in Chinese film '' Papa''. He has fans in numerous countries, such as

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

, and

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

Filmography

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Films

Television

Awards

*22nd Korean Model "Best Dressed", 2005 *1st Drama Awards "Best Leading Actor", 2006 *5th Esquire of the Year "Best Fashion Star", 2008 *Cosmopolitan Beauty Awards "The Gentleman", 2011

References

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* * South Korean male film actors South Korean male models South Korean male television actors South Korean people of American descent American emigrants to South Korea American male actors of Korean descent American models of Korean descent American people of South Korean descent 1981 births Living people 21st-century South Korean male actors {{korea-bio-stub