Park So Dam is a South Korean actress who gained international fame for her role as Kim Ki Jung in the 2019 film Parasite. She is considered a “gem of the independent film industry”.
Wiki/Biography
Park So Dam was born on Sunday, September 8, 1991 (28 years old in 2019) in South Korea. Her zodiac sign is Libra. She graduated from Jangshin Girls’ High School in Seoul, South Korea and majored in acting at the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul, South Korea.
appearance
Height: 5′ 5″
Eye color: dark brown
Hair color: Brown (she has dyed her hair teal, blonde, golden brown, etc.)
Family, Race, and Boyfriends
She is the eldest of three children, and has a younger sister and a younger brother.
Profession
Agency: Artist Company (August 2017 to present)
Movie
During her graduation, she auditioned for several films but was rejected. According to So-dam, she auditioned for almost 17 projects in one month. She made her debut with the short film No More No Less (2013), playing a “school girl”. She then starred in the Korean Academy of Film Arts feature films Ingtoogi: The Troll War (2013) and Steel Cold Winter (2013); Steel Cold Winter was her first feature film.
She has played small roles in many films such as Legacy (2014), Scarlet Innocence (2014), Suzy (2014), The Royal Tailor (2015). She has also appeared in blockbuster films Silence (2015), The Old Soldier (2015), Throne (2015), The Priests (2015), Man of Will (2017), Ode to the Goose (2018), Parasite (2019), and Fukuoka (2019).
television
She played “Princess Hanamaru” in the 2015 KBS special drama “Red Moon”, her first role in a Korean drama.
Park So-dam in a scene from Red Moon (2015)
She has starred in several Korean dramas, including My First Time (2015), A Beautiful Mind (2016), Cinderella and Four Knights (2016), and Record of Youth (2020). In 2019, she participated in the Korean reality cooking show Three Meals a Day: Village.
Three Meals a Day in the Village (2019)
Other works
She made her stage debut in Let Me In (2016) as “Eli”. She then starred in the plays Stealing Hearts (2016) and The Student and Mr. Henry (2017).
Awards and Achievements
- 2020 Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Ensemble Performance in a Motion Picture, “Parasite”
Park So-dam and cast members win Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 2016 Blue Dragon Film Awards Best Supporting Actress Award, the movie “The Priests”
Park So-dam gives her acceptance speech at the Blue Dragon Film Awards
- 2016 Baeksang Arts Awards Best New Actress (Film Category) “The Priests”
- 2016 Buil Film Awards for Best Supporting Actress, “The Priest”
- 2015 Busan Film Critics Awards Best New Actress Award for the movie “Silence”
sign
Park So Dam signed photo card
Favorite things
- Food: kimbap, shrimp, kimchi, bamboo shoot sauce, instant noodles, noodles with soybean paste
- Actors: Kim Hye-soo, Charlize Theron
Facts/Trivia
- In high school, she saw the musical Grease, which inspired her to become an actress. She said,
When I was in high school, I saw the musical Grease and thought the actors looked so happy, singing, sweating, and running on the stage, and that’s when I decided what I wanted to do. I thought, ‘I want to live a happy life like them,’ and I started dreaming about being an actor.”
- In the early days of her career, she faced an identity crisis and often asked herself what she was good at. Speaking of that time, Sudan said,
I was always thinking about what I was good at, so I didn’t choose my own projects, but often did a few random things.”
- At first, her family opposed her becoming an actress because they were worried that she would encounter many difficulties as an actress, but in the end they compromised. Talking about this, she said:
When they see me going home at night exhausted but happy, they support me even more because they want me to be happy. That is my biggest motivation, the support from my family. I am also lucky to have such great people in the industry, which keeps me going.
- She was chosen from 2,000 girls who auditioned for the role of Lee Young Shin in the film The Priest (2015). Talking about the selection process and how she got the film, Sultan said,
I went through four rounds of auditions. I don’t know that 2,000 people auditioned. At the time, Black Priests was making headlines for auditioning new actresses who were willing to shave their heads. “Are they really going to shave my head?” I thought, but in the second round, they asked us to wear wigs, and I realized that they actually wanted us to do that. When I put on the wig, the people there complimented me, “You look so good in it,” and I was stunned. I’m not a standout looker, and I could have easily blended in with the crowd with long hair. But the director who saw me in the second round of auditions said, “This girl has a unique temperament.” I think the short wig changed my destiny in the audition process.”
Park So-dam in a scene from “The Priest (2015)”
- Park So-dam is a close relative of Korean senior actress Park Won-sook, who is the cousin of Park So-dam’s grandfather.
Park Won-suk
- Park So-dam’s role model is South Korean actress Kim Hye-soo, who has starred in “Three Extremes II” (2002), “Union of Thieves” (2012), and “Locker Girl” (2015). In an interview, So-dam said of Hye-soo:
I admire her so much. She has such a wide range of acting experience, which I think is so cool and I want to be like her.
- Park So-dam played the role of “Kim Ki-jung” in the 2019 film “Parasite”, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 and three Oscars in 2020.
Park So-dam takes a photo with Oscar
- Park So Dam plays Song Kang-ho’s daughter “Ki-jung” in “Parasite”. The actor felt a strong connection with him on the set of “Parasite”. Their connection is so strong that Park So Dam still calls him “Aba” (Dad) instead of “Senior” (Senior). Speaking of Song Kang-ho, Park So Dam said:
I am so happy to have met such an amazing person like Song Kang-ho. It is an amazing experience to have him as a father and to call him “Dad”. I will rely on him for the rest of my life because I want to learn a lot from him and gain experience from him. “
Park So-dam and Song Kang-ho
- So-dam usually drinks with her high school classmates or actor friends she met at work. According to her, she can drink a bottle of soju, and usually she will drink a can of beer. Talking about her drinking habits, she said,
Drinking habits? My friends say I speak slower. I guess it’s because even in the haze of alcohol, I try to express my points as accurately as possible.
- So-dam usually drinks with her high school classmates or actor friends she met at work. According to her, she can drink a bottle of soju, and usually she will drink a can of beer. Talking about her drinking habits, she said,
- Park So-dam and Korean actresses Kim Go-eun and Lee Yoo-young were classmates in college.
Park So Dam, Kim Go Eun, Lee Yoo Young
- She loves animals very much and has a pet dog.
Park So-dam and her pet dog
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