Bae Doona

Bae Doona
Bae in December 2023
Born (1979-10-11) October 11, 1979 (age 45)
Seoul, South Korea[1]
EducationKonkuk University (Department of Film Arts)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • photographer
Years active1999–present
AgentGoodman Story Ent.
MotherKim Hwa-young [ko]
Korean name
Hangul
배두나
Hanja
裵斗娜
Revised RomanizationBae Duna
McCune–ReischauerPae Tuna
Websitedoona.net

Bae Doona (Korean배두나; born October 11, 1979),[2] anglicized as Doona Bae, is a South Korean actress and photographer. She became known outside Korea for her roles as a political activist in Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), archer Park Nam-joo in Bong Joon-ho's The Host (2006), and as the doll in Hirokazu Kore-eda's Air Doll (2009).[3] She has had English-speaking roles in the Wachowski films Cloud Atlas (2012) and Jupiter Ascending (2015), as well as the Netflix television series Sense8 (2015–2018) and film Rebel Moon (2023–2024). In Korean-speaking roles, she is well known as the leading female character in the crime thriller Stranger (2017–2020), the Netflix period zombie thriller, Kingdom (2019–2020), and the sci-fi limited series The Silent Sea (2021).[4][5]

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  2. ^ Garrigues, Manon (May 16, 2017). "Who is Bae Doona?". Vogue France. Archived from the original on August 7, 2022. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
  3. ^ "The Actress of Positive Stateless/BEA Doo-na of Air Doll". Korean Film Biz Zone. July 1, 2009. Archived from the original on August 14, 2017.
  4. ^ Greene, Steve (January 6, 2022). "'The Silent Sea' Finds a New Horror on the Moon in Netflix Space Drama". Indie Wire. Archived from the original on January 10, 2022. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  5. ^ Pinney, Dustin (January 6, 2022). "Where You've Seen The Cast Of The Silent Sea Before". Looper. Archived from the original on January 9, 2022. Retrieved January 9, 2022.