Jeong Ae Ran

Jeong Ae Ran was born Ye Dae Im, in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do on the 15th April 1927.
She dropped out of Huaguang Girls’ School in China. In 1943, she joined the music theatre group Yu Rak Jwa and began acting with the play Mangyang. She worked in many theatre companies, such as Seonggun, Youth Theatre, and National Theatre Company.
She debuted as a movie star in 1955 through Lee Hyun’s ‘A Watermill’, and she has built up a career as an individualistic actor, especially in Lee Man Hee’s ‘The Devil’s Stairway’ (1964) and ‘Black Hair’ (1964). Her unique acting made a striking impression.
Her acting in horror films such as ‘A Bridegroom from a Grave’ (1963), ‘A Bloodthirsty Killer’ (1965), ‘A Neckless Beauty’ (1966), directed by Lee Yong Min, and ‘A Public Cemetery of Wol Ha’ (1967) by Kwon Chul Hwi is strange.
In 1979, she performed her best performance in Byun Jang Ho’s Eulhwa, and she won the 18th Grand Bell Award for Best Supporting Actress. Jeong Ae-ran’s performance crossed the theatre stage and the home theatre, TV. She was criticized for convincingly portraying the life of the twilight based on her long years as a heroine in the play “Sachugi”, and has been a cultural broadcaster for over a decade.
She played the role of a grandmother in ‘The Everyone Diary’ , a ‘national drama’. In this drama, she showed off a passionate No Ikjang that she never missed a session except for having skipped four episodes for her lung cancer surgery.
She died on the 10th November, 2005 from old age at her home in Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do.
(Source: KMDb)