Lee Na-young (Lee Na-young) is a South Korean actress and former model born on February 22, 1979. She began her career in 1998 in advertising before moving on to television. After appearing in several productions in the late 1990s, including KAIST, Did We Really Love? and Queen, she gained widespread recognition with Ruler of Your Own World in 2002, when her portrayal of Jeon Kyung drew particular attention.
At the same time, she has built a successful career in film. She has appeared in Who Are You? in 2002 and Please Teach Me English in 2003, and went on to win several Best Actress awards for Someone Special in 2004, notably at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. She went on to take on more dramatic roles in Maundy Thursday in 2006 and Dream by Kim Ki-duk in 2008.
In 2010, she played the lead role in Lady Daddy and then returned to television in the action series The Fugitive: Plan B, in which she plays Jini. Two years later, she played Detective Cha Eun-young alongside Song Kang-ho in the thriller Howling (Bites).
After several much quieter years, she returned to the big screen in 2018 with Beautiful Days, in which she plays a North Korean mother separated from her son. In 2019, after a nine-year hiatus from television series, she returned to the small screen with Romance Is a Bonus Book. In the series, she plays Kang Dan-yi opposite Lee Jong-suk—one of her best-known roles among international audiences.
In 2023, she plays the lead role of Park Ha-kyung in Park Ha Kyung's Travel Diary, an eight-episode series about a teacher who goes on short trips to temporarily escape her daily routine.
In 2026, she joined Lee Chung-ah and Jung Eun-chae in the legal thriller Honor. In it, she plays Yun Ra-young, one of the three lawyers at the center of the story. The 12-episode series marks her first major television role since Park Ha Kyung's Travel Diary.
In her personal life, Lee Na-young has been married to actor Won Bin since May 2015. The couple has a son who was born that same year.
