Park Ah-in (born 12 February 1985) is a South Korean actress. She is an alumna of

Chung-Ang University Chung-Ang University (CAU; ) is a private research university in Seoul, South Korea. It is widely regarded as one of the best universities in South Korea. The university operates two campuses: main campus located in Dongjak District, Seoul, and ...

, 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 ''Forbidden Floor'' () is a 2006 South Korean film and the second installment of the 4 Horror Tales film series. In this film, a mother and daughter move into a haunted apartment. Cast *Kim Seo-hyung *Kim Yoo-jung *Jo Yeong-jin *Kim Yeong-seon *K ...

'' and since then has appeared in a number of films and television series, including ''

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'' (2008), '' A Gentleman's Dignity'' (2012), '' Descendants of the Sun'' (2016), ''

Never Twice ''Never Twice'' () is a 2019 South Korean television series starring Park Se-wan, Kwak Dong-yeon, Youn Yuh-jung, Oh Ji-ho, Ye Ji-won, Park Ah-in and Song Won-seok. It aired on MBC TV from November 2, 2019 to March 7, 2020. Synopsis The seri ...

'' (2019) and ''

Kkondae Intern ''Kkondae Intern'' () is a 2020 South Korean television series starring Park Hae-jin and Kim Eung-soo. The workplace comedy-drama series is about what happens when a man finally gets a chance to lord over a previous boss, who made his life misera ...

'' (2020).

Early life and marriage

Park was born in

Busan Busan (), officially known as is South Korea's most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, w ...

, South Korea, and graduated from the Department of Theater and Film at

. She got married on November 7, 2020, at the

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Cathedral in

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, her spouse being unrelated to the entertainment industry.

Career

Park started her acting career with the horror film ''

'' in 2006. 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. 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. The same year she also appeared in the mystery thriller ''

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'' and another award-winning

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drama ''

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''. 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 ''

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'' for its strong female characters. In 2019, she played Lily, an assassin in the spy crime-thriller ''

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''. For her portrayal of an assassin, she was nominated in the Best New Actress category for

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. In the same year she also portrayed a Korean version of

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as the granddaughter of the chairman and founder of Guseong Hotel, where she also is the head of marketing, in MBC's comedy drama ''

''. In 2020, Park appeared as Tak Jeong-eun, a 5-year contract worker of the Marketing Department at Joon Soo Foods, in ''

'', 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''.

Filmography

Films

Television series

Television variety show

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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Park Ah-in on Daum
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