Kim Sun-young (Kim Sun-young), born on April 10, 1976, in Yeongdeok, North Gyeongsang Province, is a South Korean actress. A philosophy graduate from Hallym University, she discovered theater while in college and made her stage debut in 1995. After several years with various theater companies, she made her film debut in She's on Duty (2005), and then made a name for himself in Ode to My Father (2014).
On television, his popularity has grown considerably with Reply 1988 (2015–2016), in which she plays Sun-woo’s mother. She then went on to play a series of memorable roles in Because This Is My First Life (2017), Romance Is a Bonus Book, When the Camellia Blooms and Vagabond in 2019. That same year, she played Na Wol-sook in Crash Landing on You, a performance that earned her the Baeksang Arts Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series.
At the same time, she has built a successful film career with Herstory (2018), Three Sisters (2021), Return to Seoul and Broker (2022), then Dream Palace, Concrete Utopia and Love Reset (2023), as well as Exhuma (2024). His performance in Three Sisters It earned her several awards, including the Baeksang Arts Award and the Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2024, she starred in, among other films, A Virtuous Business. In 2025, she appears in The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call, Our Unwritten Seoul, Love, Take Two and The Price of Confession. It is also announced in The Great Ok Sook for 2027.
In her personal life, Kim Sun-young is married to director Lee Seung-won, with whom she has a daughter.
