Park Ah-in (born 12 February 1985)[2] is a South Korean actress.[3] She is an alumna of Chung-Ang University, Department of Theater and Film, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Theater Studies. She made her acting debut in 2006 in the horror film Forbidden Floor and since then has appeared in a number of films and television series, including Loner (2008), A Gentleman's Dignity (2012), Descendants of the Sun (2016), Vagabond (2019), Never Twice (2019) and Kkondae Intern (2020).[4]

Park Ah-in
Park Ah-in in May 2019.
Born (1985-02-12) 12 February 1985 (age 39)
Busan, South Korea
EducationBA in Theater Studies
Alma materChung-Ang University
Occupations
  • Actor
  • Stage actor
Years active2006–present
Agentbeyond J[1]
Korean name
Hangul
박아인
Revised RomanizationBak Ain
McCune–ReischauerPak Ain

Early life and marriage

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Park was born in Busan, South Korea, and graduated from the Department of Theater and Film at Chung-Ang University.[5] She got married on November 7, 2020, at the Oksu-dong Cathedral in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, her spouse being unrelated to the entertainment industry.[6][7]

Career

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Park started her acting career with the horror film Forbidden Floor in 2006.[8]

In 2008, she took on the role of policewoman Hanakoin in a stage play Atami Murder Case organized by the Chung-Ang University Performing Film Arts Center.[9]

In 2016, she was cast in the award-winning and popular show of the year Descendants of the Sun as Kim Eun-ji, a thoracic surgery specialist.[10] The same year she also appeared in the mystery thriller Babysitter and another award-winning tvN drama The Good Wife.[11]

In 2018, she starred in tvN's historical romance Mr. Sunshine, where she portrayed a woman who is unable to bear a child so she is regularly abused by her husband. The drama was praised by Park Jin-hai of The Korea Times for its strong female characters.[12]

In 2019, she played Lily, an assassin in the spy crime-thriller Vagabond. For her portrayal of an assassin, she was nominated in the Best New Actress category for SBS Drama Awards.[13] In the same year she also portrayed a Korean version of Paris Hilton as the granddaughter of the chairman and founder of Guseong Hotel, where she also is the head of marketing, in MBC's comedy drama Never Twice.[14]

In 2020, Park appeared as Tak Jeong-eun, a 5-year contract worker of the Marketing Department at Joon Soo Foods, in Kkondae Intern, an MBC TV drama broadcast from May - June, 2020. In the same year she made her first variety show appearance on SBS's comedy show Park-Jang's LOL.[15]

Filmography

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Films

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2006 Forbidden Floor [8]
2008 Loner [8]
2010 Outlaw Woman with no brain [8]
2012 Project 577 Self
2013 Top Star Won-joon's female junior colleague 2
Friends 2 Female singer [16]
2019 Hoop It Up Yoo-jin

Television series

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2010 Bad Man Da-rim [8]
2012 A Gentleman's Dignity Attorney Kang [8]
2014 Mama Suzy [8]
Discovery of Love Da-yeon [8]
2016 Descendants of the Sun Kim Eun-ji (Thoracic Surgery Specialist) [8]
Babysitter
The Good Wife Lee Yeon-joo – lawyer
2017 Manhole Park Young-joo
2018 Mr. Sunshine Go Ae-soon [17]
2018-19 Clean with Passion for Now Lee Young-eun, woman in office cleaned by Oh-sol (Ep. 3) Special appearance
My Strange Hero Yang Min-ji [18]
2019 He Is Psychometric
Welcome to Waikiki 2 Da-young (Ep. 5) Special appearance [19]
My Absolute Boyfriend
Vagabond Lily, an assassin hired by Jessica [20]
2019-20 Never Twice Na Hae-ri [21]
2020 Kkondae Intern Tak Jung-eun [22]
Sweet Home The girl next door Guest appearance [23]
2021 Moonshine Woon Shim [24]
2024 Wedding Impossible Choi Seung-ah

Television variety show

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Year Title Hangul Notes Ref.
2020 Park-Jang's LOL 박장데소 Debut [15][25]

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2019 SBS Drama Awards Best Supporting Team -with Park Ah-in, Choi Dae-chul, Kim Jung-hyun and Moon Jeong-hee Vagabond Nominated [13]
Best New Actress Nominated [26]

References

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