Go Soo

Go Soo (born October 4, 1978), also known as Ko Soo, is a South Korean actor. He has appeared in television series such as ''Piano'', ''Green Rose'' and ''Will It Snow for Christmas?'', as well as the films '' White Night'' and '' The Front Line''.

Early life and education

Go was born and raised in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea as the youngest of 2 sons. He attended college in Sangmyung University, Cheonan campus, where he majored in Cinema degree.

Career

1998–2005: Debut and breakout fame

When Go Soo first came to Seoul, he acted on stage, but he lacked money that time. Since he lacked money, he decided to put his stage acting on hold for later and eventually stopped. From then on, he began presenting his profile photo to numerous agencies. Go first appeared in a soft drink TV commercial, followed by a role as an extra in the 1998 music video "Last Promise" by the band Position. He made his television debut in 1999 through the MBC sitcoms ''My Funky Family'' and ''Jump'' and KBS2 drama series ''Ad Madness''.
Go drew critical praise for his performance in the television drama ''Piano'' in 2001, with one review describing him as an "actor with precision".

Go made his big screen debut as a drug crime officer in 2004's ''Some'', in which he performed his own stunts and was later recognized as Best New Actor at the Grand Bell Awards. Go reunited with Ad Madness co-star Park Ye-jin in TV series ''When A Man Loves A Woman'' in the same year.
In 2005, he starred in the revenge drama ''Green Rose'', which was shot on location in China and Korea. He played a simple man who falls in love with a rich woman and gets accused of a crime he did not commit. Then in the romantic comedy ''Marrying a Millionaire'', Go played a delivery man who is asked by a TV producer to act like a rich bachelor to attract several women on a televised reality dating show.

2006–2008: Military

Go began his two-year mandatory military service on March 2, 2006 and he was assigned as a Civil Service Personnel in Gangnam District, Seoul. He was discharged on April 25, 2008, and received recognition for being an outstanding Public Interest Service Personnel.

2009–present: Comeback

For his first post-army project, Go surprised fans by choosing a stage play. Invited to join the "Best Play Series" by veteran actor Cho Jae-hyun (Jo was his costar in ''Piano'', and the senior colleague he "most respects"), Go made his theater debut as the lead actor in ''The Return of President Eom'', which ran from May 23 to August 3, 2008.

In 2009, he starred in the dark mystery film '' White Night'', based on the Japanese novel ''Byakuyakō'' by Keigo Higashino. Go said he was "completely absorbed by the intriguing storyline." Go then made his television comeback in the melodrama ''Will It Snow for Christmas?'', a tale of rekindled childhood love penned by renowned TV writer Lee Kyung-hee. He described his character as "hurt by love and tries to overcome that pain."

His next film ''Haunters'', in which he played the only man immune to a psychic's supernatural powers, was a box office hit in 2010.
On May 13, 2011, he signed under the management of Lee Byung-hun known as BH Entertainment. He next played a soldier in the Korean War-set '' The Front Line'', then a grieving firefighter in the 2012 romance drama ''Love 911''.

Afterwards, he collaborated with the makers of ''The Chaser'' for ''Empire of Gold'', a TV series about the power struggle within a rich family living through Korea's turbulent economy of the 1990s, produced by SBS; in this series, he played an antihero. Later that year, he starred in melodrama film '' Way Back Home'', playing the devastated husband of a woman wrongfully accused of drug smuggling. Go said the reason he chose the film was because he wanted to work with acclaimed actress Jeon Do-yeon, and that through his character he "was able to tackle the challenge of internal and external change".

In 2014, Go appeared in two short films. Directed by Kang Je-gyu, '' Awaiting'' is about a married couple separated for sixty years by the division of North and South Korea. ''Awaiting'' was one of the four short films comprising ''Beautiful 2014'', an omnibus project that premiered at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival. Meanwhile, ''Myohyangsangwan'' ("View of Mount Myohyang"), which depicted the rendezvous of a South Korean painter and a North Korean waitress in a North Korean restaurant, is a collaboration by contemporary artists Moon Kyung-won and Jeon Joon-ho, and combined a theatrical plot, experimental imagery, dance and performance art. He then starred in the period film ''The Royal Tailor'', in the role of an upstart new designer whose talent and instincts challenges the traditional master artisan of royal attire.

In June 2015, Go Soo has amicably parted ways with BH Entertainment, and joined a new agency founded by his previous manager at BH Entertainment.

Go made his small screen comeback after three years in MBC's 55th-founding anniversary historical drama directed by a famed director Lee Byung-hoon, ''The Flower in Prison''.

In 2017, Go starred in ''Lucid Dream'', a psychological thriller in which Go played a former journalist who attempts to find his kidnapped son using lucid dreaming. The same year, Go starred in ''The Tooth and the Nail'', a film based on the 1955 mystery novel by Bill S. Ballinger in which a magician discovers the incinerated teeth and fingernails of his missing butler. He next starred in period epic film '' The Fortress''.

In 2018, Go was cast in the medical drama '' Heart Surgeons'' as a cardiothoracic surgery resident trying to save his mother in need of a heart transplant.

Personal life

Go began dating Kim Hye-yeon, an art student eleven years his junior, shortly after meeting her in 2008. The couple married on February 17, 2012 at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul. Their son was born on January 28, 2013, and their daughter was born on April 17, 2015. On September 13, 2017, his wife gave birth to their 3rd child.

Filmography

Film

Television series

Music video appearances

Theater

Discography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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Go Soo
at BH Entertainment

Go Soo Fan Club
at Daum

Go Soo Japanese website

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21st-century South Korean male actors
South Korean male television actors
South Korean male film actors
South Korean male stage actors
People from Nonsan
1978 births
Living people