Park Shin Hye

Park Shin-hye was born on February 18, 1990, in Gwangju, South Korea. In 2001, she auditioned for a music video by singer Lee Seung-hwan, "Do You Love Me!," and was cast, which led to formal training in singing, dancing and acting at his agency, Dream Factory. Her first drama role came two years later, in 2003, when she played the younger version of the female lead in "Stairway to Heaven." Her profile grew steadily over the following decade. A lead role in the tragic teen romance "Tree of Heaven" (2006) brought her wider critical notice, and she reached broad popularity in 2009 with "You're Beautiful," playing a young woman who poses as her twin brother to join a boy band. In 2013 she starred opposite Lee Min-ho in the high-school drama "The Heirs." She played a news reporter who cannot lie in "Pinocchio" (2014-2015), followed by the medical drama "Doctors" (2016) and the fantasy series "Memories of the Alhambra" (2018-2019). After several years away from television, she returned in 2024 opposite Park Hyung-sik in "Doctor Slump." Park studied theater at Chung-Ang University, completing her degree in February 2016 after eight years of part-time study alongside her acting career. She has also been active in charitable work since the early 2010s: she started the Starlight Angel Project, opened a school called Shin-hye's Center in Ghana in 2013 that serves around 500 students, and donated 50 million won to Nepal earthquake relief in 2015. She married actor Choi Tae-joon on January 22, 2022. Their first child, a son, was born on May 31, 2022, and the couple announced a second child in April 2026.