Choi Min-sik

Choi Min-sik
Choi Min-sik
최민식
	Choi Min-sik at the 44th Carlsbad International Film Festival, July 9, 2009
Born	January 22, 1962 (age 62); Ihwa-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Nationality	South Korean
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1982–present
Spouses	; Lee Hwa-young (m. 1990; div. 1993) ; Kim Hwal-ran (m. 1999)
Awards	Okgwan Order of Cultural Merit (2004)
Korean name
Hangul	최민식
Revised Romanization	Choe Min-sik
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'oe Minsik

Choi Min-sik (Korean: 최민식; born January 22, 1962) is a South Korean actor. Best known for his role in Oldboy (2003), the performance was critically acclaimed and won him the Best Actor prize at the 40th Baeksang Art Awards, the 24th Blue Dragon Awards, and the 41st Grand Bell Awards. His other notable works include Shiri (1999), Lady Vengeance (2005), I Saw the Devil (2010), Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012), New World (2013) and The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014), which became the highest-grossing film in South Korea. For his performance in the latter, he won the Grand Prize at the 51st Baeksang Arts Awards.

In 2014, Choi came to prominence in Hollywood with his role in Lucy (2014). He was also listed as Gallup Korea's Film Actor of the Year.^[2]^[3]

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^ Park, Sae-jin (December 16, 2014). "Choi Min-shik tops Gallup Korea's 2014 most favorite actors list". Aju Business Daily. Archived from the original on June 11, 2021. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
^ Jung, A-ran (December 22, 2014). 갤럽 "올해 가장 빛난 탤런트는 김수현·이유리" [Gallup "The brightest talents of the year are Kim Soo-hyun and Lee Yu-ri"]. Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Archived from the original on October 8, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2021.