Kim Hye-ja

Kim Hye-ja
Kim in February 2019
Born	(1941-10-25) October 25, 1941 (age 82) Keijō, Keiki-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan (present-day Gyeonggi Province, Seoul, South Korea).
Education	Ewha Womans University (dropped out)
Occupations	Actress humanitarian
Years active	1963–present
Spouse	Im Jong-chan ​ ​ (m. 1961; died 1998)​
Children	2
Honours	Eungwan Order of Cultural Merit (2019)
Korean name
Hangul	김혜자
Hanja	金惠子
Revised Romanization	Gim Hye-ja
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Hyecha

Kim Hye-ja (Korean: 김혜자; born October 25, 1941)^[1] is a South Korean actress and humanitarian. Best known to South Korean audiences as the archetypal mother figure in popular television series such as Country Diaries (1980–2002), What Is Love? (1991), My Mother's Sea (1993) and Roses and Beansprouts (1999). Kim drew international critical acclaim in the noir thriller Mother (2009),^[2]The Light in Your Eyes (2019) and Our Blues (2022).