K-drama fans aren’t strangers to seeing familiar faces, and viewers of Netflix’s Mask Girl and The Uncanny Counter certainly know that. Among its shared cast includes the 69-year-old actress Moon Sook, who happens to have a memorable moniker attached to her name–the Audrey Hepburn of Korea!
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Regular viewers of the two trending shows streaming on Netflix are sure to spot Moon Sook among its packed cast. The star appears in both seasons of The Uncanny Counter, where she portrays Wi-gen. In the fantasy drama about paranormal hunters, Sook’s character leads the Yung, the boundary between the afterlife and the world of the living.
Meanwhile, the actress also appears in a starring role in the 2023 thriller Mask Girl. There, she plays Sim Young-hee, a mother who has a volatile relationship with her daughter, protagonist Kim Mo Mi.
But before she starred in both roles in the two hit dramas, Sook already made a name for herself in '70s, when she debuted as a budding star. In a film released in 1975, Sook started off her acting career with a lead role in A Girl Who Looks Like the Sun.
In the same year, she starred in Where Is Miss Yeong?, alongside A Triangular Trap and The Road to Sampo, which were helmed by the legendary filmmaker–and her then-husband–Lee Man Hee. Even then, the actress had caught audiences’ attention for her seeming resemblance to Hollywood star Audrey Hepburn.
But despite her budding fame in South Korea’s movie-making industry, Sook would eventually halt acting after moving to Hawaii, following the death of Man Hee in 1975. She later remarried, and would return to Korea’s screens–after 40 years, that is!
In 2015, Sook returned to Korean film in the romantic comedy The Beauty Inside, where she starred alongside Han Hyo Joo. According to a report, the Moving actress had sought Sook herself in Hawaii, after coming across her story in a magazine. The older star was so impressed by Hyo Joo’s sincerity that she decided to accept the role!
Soon enough, Sook appeared in several other dramas and films afterwards, including Hello, My Twenties!, Tunnel, Kkondae Intern, and the latest, The Uncanny Counter and Mask Girl. Now that's cool!
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