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Song Gang-ho
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Song Kangho
Song Kang-ho (born January 17, 1967 in Gimhae) is a leading South Korean film actor. A graduate of Busan Kyungsang College, he started his career in theatre groups without professional training as an actor. He made his stage premiere in 1991, in the play Dongseung.
In 1996 Song started appearing in film roles and his 1997 part in No. 3, as a gangster training a group of recruits, won him his first acting award, at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. Song's cachet rose with his high-profile supporting role in the 1999 box-office hit Shiri. In 2000, Song received his first leading roles as a wrestler in The Foul King and as a North Korean sergeant in Joint Security Area.
In recent years he has received critical acclaim for his portrayals of a vengeful father in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002); an incompetent rural detective in Memories of Murder (2003); a barber who dotes on his only son in The President's Barber (2004); and a semi-intelligent but doting father in the The Host (2006). He won Best Actor in the 2007 Asian Film Awards.
Filmography
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1996
The Day a Pig Fell into the Well
1997
Green Fish
Pan-su
No. 3
Jo-Pil
1998
The Quiet Family
Yeong-min Kang (Son)
Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie
1999
Shiri
Lee, Jang-gil
2000
The Foul King
Dae-Ho
Joint Security Area
Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil
2002
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Park Dong-jin
YMCA Baseball Team
Lee Ho-chang
2003
Memories of Murder
Detective Park Doo-Man
2004
The President's Barber
Seong Han-mo/Barber
2005
Antarctic Journal
Choi Do-hyung
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Hired Assassin #1
2006
The Host
Park Gang-Du
2007
The Show Must Go On
Kang In-goo
Secret Sunshine
Jong Chan
2008
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Yun Te-Gu/The Weird
Thirst
Sang-Hyeon/Vampire
filming
References
^ "'송강호' 인물 정보". Naver.com. Retrieved on 2006-12-08.
External links
Song Kang-ho at the Internet Movie Database
Unofficial fansite in Korean
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