Won Jin Ah

Won Jin Ah is a South Korean actress under Yooborn Company. She dreamed of being an actor but didn’t pass the entry exam and chose instead to study cultural planning. She eventually dropped out after a year and did a string of odd jobs to support her family, including at a postpartum confinement center, but her parents encouraged her to move to Seoul so she could have a better chance at fulfilling her dream.
She first appeared in the short movie “The Chosen: Forbidden Cave” (2015) after passing an audition, soon followed by “Now Playing” (2015). She then landed a minor role in Kim Ji Woon’s period espionage film “The Age of Shadows” (2016), but it was for her convincing performance as a North Korean girl in “Steel Rain” (2017) that she was first noticed by the public.
After beating more than a hundred hopefuls in an audition, she was cast as the female lead of television drama series “Just Between Lovers” (2017-2018), for which she later received a nomination for Best New Actress at the Baeksang Arts Awards and a newcomer win at the APAN Star Awards. She starred in “Melting Me Softly” (2019) and several other films; she received a nomination for Best New Actress in the 25th Chunsa Film Art Awards for her film “Long Live the King” (2020). She’s currently starring in the 2021 drama “She Would Never Know”