Choi Eun-hee

Biography

Choi Eun-hee (November 20, 1926 – April 16, 2018) was a South Korean actress, who was one of the country's most popular stars of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, Choi and her then ex-husband, movie director Shin Sang-ok, were abducted to North Korea, where they were forced to make films until they sought asylum at the US Embassy in Vienna in 1986. They returned to South Korea in 1999 after spending a decade in the United States.

Known For

Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber
Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber
Love, Love, My Love
Love, Love, My Love
Six Daughters
Six Daughters
The Tale of Shim Cheong
The Tale of Shim Cheong
A Country Girl
A Country Girl
Chun Hui
Chun Hui
The Evergreen
The Evergreen
The Sun of Night
The Sun of Night
A Sad Pastorale
A Sad Pastorale

Filmography

2024 Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
as Herself
2016 The Lovers and the Despot
as Self - Actress / Various Roles
2002 Keeping the Vision Alive
as Herself
2002 I'll Be Seeing Her
as Herself
1985 Salt
as mother
1985 Love, Love, My Love
as Chunhyang's mother
1985 The Tale of Shim Cheong
as Shim Cheong's mother
1984 Runaway
as Song Ryul's wife
1969 Women of Yi-Dynasty
as
1968 Woman
as
1968 The Land of Korea
as
1968 The Homeless Wanderer
as
1967 Mountain
as
1967 The Phantom Queen
as
1967 Six Daughters
as
1966 The Monkey Goes West
as
1965 The Woman Coming in Fall
as
1965 The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-in-law
as Jum-soon
1965 The Story of Bae Local Offcial
as
1965 The Sino-Japanese War and Queen Min the Heroine
as Queen Min