Lee Jong-suk Parents: Meet Lee Han-kyu

Lee Jong-suk parents-South Korean actor and model, Lee Jong-suk was born on September 14th, 1989 in Yongin-si, South Korea.

Lee graduated from Konkuk University in 2016 with a double major in professional motion pictures and art.

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Aside from his movie business, Lee is also a model and he became the youngest male model ever to participate in Seoul Fashion Week.

The youngest male model to debut in the Seoul Collection program at Seoul Fashion Week, Lee started his modeling career at the Seoul Collection promenade in 2005 at the age of 15. He has participated in numerous fashion shows since then.

After three months of preparation as a member of an idol group, Lee agreed to join an agency and made his debut. He resigned, nevertheless, as the agency failed to fulfill its commitment to make his acting debut. When he was in middle school, he participated in an actor audition at the SBS TV station.

In the 2010 television series Prosecutor Princess from South Korea, Lee made his official acting debut. In the horror film Ghost, he also made his big-screen debut.

After playing a gifted young composer with a sour attitude and a forbidden crush on the second male protagonist in the popular drama Secret Garden, Lee began to earn notoriety. He had an appearance in Season 3 of the sitcom High Kick on MBC in 2011, where he furthered his reputation.

In 2012, Lee co-starred in R2B: Return to Base, a rough replica of the highly regarded 1986 movie Top Gun. In 2012, Lee co-starred in R2B: Return to Base, a rough replica of the highly regarded 1986 movie Top Gun.

At the 2012 KBS Drama Awards, he won his first acting prize for the part in the Best New Actor category. Additionally, he came in fifth place in a Gallup Korea study named “Actors Who Lit Up 2013.”

Following the success of School 2013, Lee featured with Lee Bo-young in the highly regarded drama series I Can Hear Your Voice. He portrayed Park Soo-ha, a young guy with intelligence and mind-reading abilities. Due to its strong ratings, the drama’s original 16-episode run was increased by two.

For his performance, he was given the Excellence Award in the male category at the Korea Drama Awards. After that, Lee had a leading role in the sports movie No Breathing and a supporting part in the commercial success The Face Reader.

He played a cheesy womanizer in the teen romantic comedy Hot Young Bloods in 2014. Later, Lee played a North Korean defector who works as a doctor in South Korea in the popular medical drama Doctor Stranger.

The show received 400 million views in China, proving its popularity. As Choi Dal-po, a first-year reporter at a broadcasting corporation who fights with the concepts of justice and truth in a society where everyone seeks to conceal the truth, Lee next acted in Pinocchio opposite actress Park Shin-Hye.

Another popular film was Pinocchio, which earned 6.2 billion won ($5.62 million) in broadcasting rights in just one year.

Lee received acting honors for his roles in the dramas Doctor Stranger and Pinocchio, including the Male Top Excellence Award at the 8th Korea Drama Awards.

At the 27th Grimae Awards, presented by television cinematographers, he also made history by becoming the youngest actor to take home the Best Actor honor.

The next year, Lee went on a nine-month tour of Asia to meet with fans, and at that time, a photo book titled 2014-2015, Asia Tour Story With was published. It had pictures of Lee’s encounters with fans in seven Asian cities.

Together with Zheng Shuang, Lee was cast in his debut Chinese drama, Jade Lovers. The drama, which was shot in Shanghai, is categorized as a 1930s fantasy romance serial.

Due to Lee’s popularity in China, a wax replica of him was put on display in Madame Tussauds in Hong Kong, where the actor ceremoniously presented himself. Lee parted ways with Wellmade Yedang in December 2015, and on May 10, 2016, he inked an exclusive deal with YG Entertainment.

Alongside Han Hyo-joo, Lee made a comeback to Korean television in July 2016 with MBC’s fantasy thriller W. Lee earned the Daesang at the year-end MBC Drama Awards, and the drama topped the popularity charts in Korea.

Lee played the villain for the first time in a leading role in the 2017 crime movie VIP. In September, Lee co-starred with Bae Suzy in the spooky procedural drama While You Were Sleeping.

A replica of the 1991 movie Death Song, The Hymn of Death is a three-episode drama that stars Lee. He co-starred with Lee Na-young in his debut romantic comedy-drama, Romance Is a Bonus Book, which was released in 2019.

After completing his military service in 2021, he returned with a cameo in The Witch: Part 2. The second one. Later, Lee’s participation in the official movie Decibel with Kim Rae-won, Lee Sang-hee, and Cha Eun-woo was confirmed.

On September 12, 2022, Lee hosted a fan gathering called “RE, JONG SUK” in Seoul’s Blue Square Mastercard Hall.

Who are Lee Jong-suk’s parents?

Lee was born Lee Han-kyu but his mother’s name is not known to the public at the time of filing this report. Lee shares the same parent with his two siblings; his brother; Kim Jong-suk and a sister named Lui.

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