Lee Yo-won

South Korean actress (born 1980) Lee Yo-wonLee in October 2025Born (1980-04-09) April 9, 1980 (age 46)Seongnam, South KoreaEducationDankook University – Theater and FilmOccupationActressYears active1997–presentAgentManagement KooHeight1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)Spouse Park Jin-woo ​(m. 2003)​Children3Korean nameHangul이요원RRI YowonMRI Yowŏn Lee Yo-won (Korean: 이요원; born April 9, 1980) is a South Korean actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Queen Seondeok in the eponymous hit period drama. Career Lee Yo-won was a sophomore in high school when she won a modeling contest and first appeared as a model in the November 1997 issue of fashion magazine Figaro. This led to commercials, then to minor roles in television series and movies. Though she started getting recognized by the public after the box-office success of anarchic comedy Attack the Gas Station (1999), her first notable acting role was in controversial TV drama Blue Mist (2001), where she played a young woman in her 20s who becomes romantically involved with a married man in his 40s. Critical darling Take Care of My Cat (2001) followed shortly, for which she received several newcomer awards. In a later