Lee Tae-sung (Korean: ์ดํ์ฑ; born Lee Sung-deok on April 21, 1985) is a South Korean actor. He is known for his roles in 26 Years Diary, Playful Kiss, Rooftop Prince and My Golden Life and is currently a cast member of the reality show My Little Old Boy.
Early life
The elder of two sons, Lee was born and raised in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province.[1] His younger brother is singer Sung Yu-bin (Korean: ์ฑ์ ๋น, born 1987), who is a member of the band BOB4.[2] Lee was a baseball player in his youth and had aspired to play professionally before constant injuries forced him to give up the sport during his senior year. He graduated from Ansan Technical High School where he was schoolmates with St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Kim Kwang-hyun.[3]
Career
Lee's first credited role was as baseball player Koo Chun-seo in the sports film Superstar Mr. Gam. He was cast in his first lead role in the 2005 film Blossom Again opposite veteran actress Kim Jung-eun and was nominated for Best New Actor at the Blue Dragon Film Awards and Baeksang Arts Awards.[4] His next film was the 2006 Japanese-South Korean co-production 26 Years Diary, in which he portrayed the Korean student who was killed trying to save a man who had fallen off the platform at the Shin-ลkubo Station. It garnered him much attention in Japan due to the high profile nature of the actual incident, which had occurred in 2001.[5] He was cast in the second male lead role in the romantic comedy Two Outs in the Ninth Inning, in which he played a college baseball player aspiring to go professional.[6] After a stint of playing mostly protagonist roles, he portrayed the villainous nemesis of Park Yoo-chun in the sageuk fusion drama Rooftop Prince followed by the scheming son of a chaebol family in Pots of Gold.
Following his discharge from the military in July 2015, Lee's comeback project was the MBC weekend drama My Mom. He then starred in the KBS drama My Golden Life, which began airing in late 2017 and became a ratings hit domestically.[7]
In April 2020, Lee and his mother joined the cast of the reality show My Little Old Boy.
In December 2021, Lee released his first solo exhibition 'Lee Motion' and made his debut as a painter.[8]
In June 2022, Lee will hold a second art exhibition, starting from June 21, 2022, until July 20.[9]
Personal life
Lee played for the celebrity amateur baseball team Playboys, alongside the likes of fellow actors Kim Seung-woo and Yoon Hyun-min.[10]
Lee secretly registered his marriage in April 2012 to his non-celebrity girlfriend.[11] The couple have a son who was born in 2011, a day before the death of his paternal grandmother.[12][13] They separated before he enlisted for his military service and eventually divorced after three years of marriage. He has primary custody of their son.[14]
Lee entered his mandatory military service on October 29, 2013 at 32nd Division training camp in Gongju, South Chungcheong Province.[15][16] As he was a single father, he was granted reservist status, which meant that he could commute to his duty station from home after the five weeks of basic military training. He was discharged in July 2015.[17]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2004 | Superstar Mr. Gam | Stunt double; Koo Cheon-seo (OB Bears) | Credited as Lee Seong-deok (์ด์ฑ๋) |
2005 | Blossom Again | Lee Seok / Lee Soo | |
2006 | 26 Years Diary | Lee Soo-hyun | [18] |
Gangster High | Kim Jae-gu | [19] | |
2010 | Sera & Lami | Kwang-soo | |
2022 | Jajangmyeon Thank you | Shorts Film[20] |
Television series
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2003 | Go Mom Go! | ||
2007 | Several Questions That Make Us Happy | Jung-wook | |
Two Outs in the Ninth Inning | Kim Jung-joo | ||
Time Between Dog and Wolf | Bae Sang-shik | ||
2008 | Terroir | Park Dan-byul | |
2009 | Romance Zero | Kim Woo-jin | |
Enjoy Life | Jang Yoo-jin | ||
2010 | Drama Special: The Woman Next Door | Byun Hoon | one act-drama |
Playful Kiss | Bong Joon-gu | ||
2011 | Pianissimo | Ki Da-rim | [21] |
Bravo, My Love! | Byun Dong-woo | ||
2012 | Rooftop Prince | Yong Tae-mu | |
2013 | Pots of Gold | Park Hyun-joon | |
2015 | My Mom | Kim Kang-jae | |
2017โ2018 | My Golden Life | Seo Ji-tae | |
2018 | Ms. Hammurabi | Min Yong-joon | [22] |
2019 | The Golden Garden | Choi Joon-ki | |
2020 | When My Love Blooms | Joo Young-woo | |
2021 | The Penthouse: War in Life 3 | Prosecutor | Cameo (episode 11โ12, 14)[23] |
2022 | Ghost Doctor | Jang Min-ho | [24] |
The Driver | Cameo[25][26] | ||
Why Her | Ahn Kang-hoon | Cameo (episode 1)[27] | |
2022โ2023 | Three Bold Siblings | Cha Yun-ho | [28] |
Television show
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2011โ2012 | K-Pop CON | MC | Performer, episode 1[29] |
2016 | King of Mask Singer | Contestant | as "Want To Fly Flying Boy", episode 47 |
Real Men | Cast member | Navy NCO special | |
2020โ2022 | My Little Old Boy | ||
2021 | Run Dang Dang | [30] |
Music video
Year | Artist | Song |
---|---|---|
2008 | MC the Max | "Thorn Fish" |
MC the Max | "So Sick" | |
2009 | Park Sang-min | "When I Miss You" |
2010 | Gavy NJ | "Sunny Side" |
2012 | BOB4 | "Mystery Girl"[2] |
Discography
Album
Soundtrack contribution
- Lee Tae-sung: "Like The First Time" (Korean: ์ฒ์์ฒ๋ผ) (Romance Zero OST, 2009)
- Lee Tae-sung: "Talking To Myself" (Korean: ํผ์ฃ๋ง) (Playful Kiss OST, 2010)
- Hunter: "I Want To Be The Only Man For You" (Korean: ๋์๊ฒ ๋ง์ ๋จ์์ด๊ณ ์ถ๋ค) (City Hunter Special OST, 2011)
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
2005 | 26th Blue Dragon Film Awards | Best New Actor | Blossom Again | Nominated |
2006 | 42nd Baeksang Arts Awards | Best New Actor (Film) | Nominated | |
2007 | 8th Busan Film Critics Awards[19] | Best New Actor | Gangster High | Won |
2010 | MBC Drama Awards | Best New Actor | Enjoy Life, Playful Kiss | Won |
2011 | 19th Korean Culture and Entertainment Awards | Best Actor | Bravo, My Love! | Won |
2012 | SBS Drama Awards | Special Acting Award, Actor in a Drama Special | Rooftop Prince | Nominated |
2019 | MBC Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actor in a Weekend/Daily Drama | The Golden Garden | Nominated |
2021 | 15th SBS Entertainment Awards | Grand Prize (Daesang) [note 1] | My Little Old Boy | Won |
Notes
- ^ (with Shin Dong-yup, Seo Jang-hoon, Cho Hye-seon, Kim Sun-ja, Park Young-hye, Lee Sang-min, Tak Jae-hoon, Im Won-hee, Kim Joon-ho, Kim Jong-kook, Kim Hee-chul, Oh Min-suk, Park Goon, Choi Jin-hyuk)
References
- ^ "์์ฐ์ ๋๊ณ ์๋ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ ์ดํ์ฑ, ์์ฐ ๊ตฌ๋จ ํ๋ณด ๋์ ๋ค" (in Korean). star.mt.co.kr. July 23, 2019.
- ^ a b "MV Teaser: BOB4's Mystery Girl" Archived 2013-05-13 at the Wayback Machine Luminosity.
- ^ "'119km ์๊ตฌ' ๋ฝ๋ธ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ ์ดํ์ฑ, ์๊ณ ๋ณด๋ SK ๊น๊ดํ๊ณผ..." The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). June 28, 2012.
- ^ "์ดํ์ฑ ์ ์, 1๋ฃจ ๋ฒ ์ด์ค ๋์์ต๋๋ค, <์ฌ๋๋>์ ์ดํ์ฑ". Cine 21 (in Korean). October 10, 2005.
- ^ "[World in Korea]'็พฉไบบ ์ด์ํ' ๋ฒ์จ 5์ฃผ๊ธฐ". The Dong-a Ilbo (in Korean). January 27, 2006.
- ^ "'9ํ๋ง...'์ ์ดํ์ฑ "์ฐ์ ์ ๋ฌธ? ๊ทธ๋๋ ์ํ๋ณด๋ค ๋์ด์ฐจ ์ค์๋๋ฐ..."" (in Korean). MBC. July 15, 2007.
- ^ "ํฉ๊ธ๋น ๋ด ์ธ์, "๋๋ณธ์ด ๋ณด์~"" (in Korean). KBS. September 10, 2017.
- ^ Lee Da-won (December 3, 2021). "์ดํ์ฑ, ์ฒซ ๊ฐ์ธ์ '์ด๋ชจ์ ' ๊ฐ์ต" [Tae-Sung Lee, first solo exhibition โEmotion] (in Korean). Sports Kyunghyang. Retrieved December 3, 2021 – via Naver.
- ^ Yoo Hyo-jeong (June 13, 2022). "๋ฐฐ์ฐ ์ดํ์ฑ, ๋๋ฒ์งธ ์ ์ํ ์ฐ๋ค "ํ๊ฐ ํ๋๋ ๊ธฐ๋ํด์ฃผ๊ธธ" [Actor Lee Tae-seong opens a second exhibition "I hope you look forward to his artist activities] (in Korean). News1. Retrieved June 13, 2022 – via Naver.
- ^ "้ๆตใใใในใฟใผ้็ใใผใ PLAYBOYS". 2012-01-06. Archived from the original on 2012-01-06. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
- ^ "์ดํ์ฑ, 7์ธ์ฐ์๊ณผ ๋ด๋ ๊ฒฐํผโฆ๋์ง๋ ์๋ค์๋ค". The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). November 23, 2012.
- ^ "'7์ด ์ฐ์ ์๋ด?'โฆ์ดํ์ฑ, ์ ๋ถ๋จ ๊ณ ๋ฐฑ์ ํฌ๋ค '๋ฉ๋ถ'" Archived 2013-01-08 at the Wayback Machine Sports Seoul. 23 November 2012. Retrieved 2012-12-04. (in Korean)
- ^ Lee Tae Sung Announces His Marriage and Reveals he Has a Year-Old Son
- ^ Lee Tae Sung Finalizes Divorce from Wife; Gets Custody of Son
- ^ "Actor Lee Tae Sung Entered Military Service Without Hearing the Wedding Bells". Soompi. 11 November 2013. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
- ^ "์ดํ์ฑ, ๊ฒฐํผ์๋ ๋ชป ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ง๋๋ฌ ์ ๋ "๊ฒฐํผ์ ์ ๋ ํ"". JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). November 11, 2013.
- ^ "์ดํ์ฑ ๊ตฐ ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ค ํฉ์ ์ดํผ...์๋ค ์์ก๊ถ์?". The Dong-a Ilbo. February 23, 2015.
- ^ Joon Soh (6 November 2008) "Imagining Life Behind Heroic Act" The Korea Times.
- ^ a b Darcy Paquet (4 October 2007) "Busan Film Critics to hand out awards" The Vote.
- ^ Oh Ji-won (July 18, 2022). "์ดํ์ฑ ๆฏ ๋ฐ์ํ, ์ํ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ฐ๋ท ์ํด '๋ฏธ์ฐ์' ํ์ฐจ "๊ณผ๋ถํ ์ฌ๋ ๊ฐ์ฌ" [Lee Tae-sung and Park Young-hye leave 'Miwoo Bird' to debut as a film director "Thank you for your undeserved love"] (in Korean). YTN. Retrieved July 18, 2022 – via Naver.
- ^ Drama presentation Archived 2013-05-25 at the Wayback Machine TrendE. (in Korean)
- ^ "Lee Tae-sung to Star in JTBC's "Miss Hammurabi"". HanCinema. Nate. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
- ^ Jang Jin-ri (August 13, 2021). "[๋จ๋ ]์ดํ์ฑ-ํ์ ๋ฏผ, 'ํํธํ์ฐ์ค3' ํน๋ณ์ถ์ฐโฆํ์ฝ ์๊ณ " [Actors Lee Tae Seong and Heo Jung Min will make special appearances in 'Penthouse 3']. Spotv News (in Korean). Naver. Archived from the original on August 13, 2021. Retrieved August 13, 2021.
- ^ Park Pan-seok (December 27, 2021). "์ดํ์ฑ, '๊ณ ์คํธ๋ฅํฐ' ์ญ๋๊ธ ๋น๋ฐ ์ถ์ฐ ์๊ณ ..์ฅ๋ฏผํธ ์ญ ๋์์จ๋ค" [Lee Tae-sung, 'Ghost Doctor' All-Time Villain Appearance Announcement... Returning as Jang Min-ho] (in Korean). OSEN. Retrieved December 27, 2021 – via Naver.
- ^ Kim Na-young (January 10, 2022). "๊น์น์ฐ ์ฐ์ถ '๋ ๋๋ผ์ด๋ฒ' 2์ ๋ฐฉ์ก, ์์ฌ์ฑยท์ดํ๋ยท์๊ธธ๊ฐ ์ถ์ฐ" [Directed by Kim Seung-woo, โThe Driverโ aired in February, starring Ahn Jae-wook, Lee Tae-ran, and Ahn Gil-kang] (in Korean). MK SPORTS. Retrieved January 10, 2022 – via Naver.
- ^ Kang Nae-ri (August 18, 2021). "๊น์น์ฐ ์ฐ์ถ์ '๋ ๋๋ผ์ด๋ฒ', ์์ฌ์ฑยท์ดํ๋ ๋ฑ ์ถ์ฐโฆ9์ ์ฒซ ์ดฌ์" ['The Driver' directed by Kim Seung-woo, Ahn Jae-wook, Lee Tae-ran, etc. first shoot in september]. YTN (in Korean). Naver. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ^ Park Soo-min (June 4, 2022). "์ฒซ๋ฐฉ '์ค์์ฌ' ์ํ์ง, ํ์ง์ค ์ถ๋ฝ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋กํ ๋ํ์ง ๋๋ฝ์ผ๋ก[โ ๋ฐคTV]" [With the fall of Seo Hyun-jin and Hong Ji-yoon of 'Oh Soo-jae' in the first episode, they went to the bottom of the law firm's position [โ Night TV]] (in Korean). MT Star News. Retrieved June 4, 2022 – via Naver.
- ^ Lee Min-ji (June 23, 2022). "์ผ๋จ๋งค๊ฐ ์ฉ๊ฐํ๊ฒ' ๊น์น์-์๋น๋-์ดํ์ฑ-๊น์์-์ด์ ์ง ์บ์คํ [๊ณต์]" [Casting โThree Siblings Braveโ Kim Seung-soo, Wang Bit-na, Lee Tae-seong, Kim So-eun, and Lee Yoo-jin [Official]] (in Korean). Newsen. Retrieved June 23, 2022 – via Naver.
- ^ K-POPcon Archived 2012-05-15 at the Wayback Machine Channel A. (in Korean)
- ^ Lee Min-ji (May 3, 2021). "๋ฌ๋ ค๋ผ ๋๋์ด' ๋ฌธ์ธ์ค, ์ค์ฑํ ์์ ๋ํ์ "๋๋ ํ๋๋ฐ" ํญํ๋ฐ์ธ[์ค๋TV]". Newsen (in Korean). Retrieved May 3, 2021.
- ^ ๋จ์๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ํ ๋ info daum Music. (in Korean)
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
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