Shin Min-a

Shin Min-a
Shin Min Ah on February 18, 2009
Born	Yang Min-a (1984-04-05) April 5, 1984 Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Education	Dongguk University - Performing Arts
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2001–present
Agent	O& Entertainment
Website	shinmina.co.kr
Korean name
Hangul	신민아
Hanja	新慜娥[1]
Revised Romanization	Sin Min-a
McCune–Reischauer	Sin Mina
Birth name
Hangul	양민아
Hanja	梁慜娥
Revised Romanization	Yang Min-a
McCune–Reischauer	Yang Min'a

Shin Min-a (born Yang Min-a on April 5, 1984) is a South Korean actress. She is best known for starring in television dramas A Love to Kill, My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox, Arang and the Magistrate and Oh My Venus.

Career

Shin Min-a began her career as a model for teen magazine KiKi in 1998, then appeared in several music videos for K-pop boyband g.o.d, until her acting debut in 2001 with a supporting role in popular melodrama, Beautiful Days. The newcomer quickly rose to stardom, through the high school martial arts comedy film Volcano High with Jang Hyuk,^[2] and the college romance movie Madeleine with Jo In-sung. She then took on a supporting role in Kim Jee-woon's noir film A Bittersweet Life, reuniting her with previous co-star Lee Byung-hun. Shin is known as a professional actress; she learned the cello for three months to lend realism to her scenes in A Bittersweet Life. Shin also learned the sign language and interacted with the deaf to better portray her character in Sad Movie. This was followed by leading roles in the melodrama A Love to Kill with Rain, romantic comedy series The Beast and the Beauty with Ryoo Seung-bum, and psychological thriller The Devil with Uhm Tae-woong and Ju Ji-hoon. In the 2007 film My Mighty Princess, Shin simultaneously played two characters.

As Shin entered her mid-twenties, she began showcasing more maturity in her choice of roles. In Go Go 70s, Shin played a sexy counterculture singer^[3] and won numerous Best Actress recognition for her portrayal. She then acted as an unfaithful wife in The Naked Kitchen, and a cynical young woman in search of her father in Sisters on the Road, a critically acclaimed indie film which also stars fellow actress and close friend Gong Hyo-jin.^[4] But Shin became best known for her portrayals of supernatural horror icons revamped into endearingly innocent yet spunky heroines in the rom-com My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox (2010),^[5] and the historical drama Arang and the Magistrate (2012).^[6][7]

After appearing in The X, a 2013 spy thriller short film directed by Kim Jee-woon, Shin returned to the big screen in 2014 in Gyeongju, an introspective arthouse romance opposite Park Hae-il.^[8]

This was followed by romantic comedy My Love, My Bride, in which she and Jo Jung-suk played a newly married couple; it was a remake of the same-titled 1990 hit which starred Choi Jin-sil and Park Joong-hoon.^[9][10][11]

In 2015, Shin and So Ji-sub were cast in the romantic comedy series Oh My Venus.^[12] For her character, an overweight lawyer, Shin underwent a three-hour makeup/prosthetic session every shoot.^[13]

In 2016, Shin is cast opposite Lee Je-hoon in fantasy melodrama, Tomorrow With You. Min-a portrays a character of a 30-year-old amateur photographer who finds out her better half can time travel. The drama is set to be fully pre-produced and set to air in early 2017.^[14]

Other activities

Shin Min-a on February 18, 2009

After her travels were documented on the cable channel O'live in 2008,^[15] Shin published a book titled Shin Min-a's French Diary in 2009.^[16]

She has also contributed her vocals to several singles and soundtracks.^[17][18]

Shin is one of the most in-demand and highest paid commercial endorsers in South Korea. Notable among her forays into branded entertainment is the 2008 multi-episode Summer Days opposite Hyun Bin and Ryoo Seung-bum for LG Xnote featuring music by You Hee-yeol,^[19] as well as Friends & Love, a movie-style extended advertisement for Giordano in 2011 costarring Jung Woo-sung and So Ji-sub.^[20]

In 2009, Shin went to Milan, Italy to shoot a photo spread for Elle Korea with Calvin Klein model Jamie Dornan.^[21] In 2011, she was chosen as the first Asian model for the DIY Project ad campaign of American clothing brand Rag & bone,^[22][23] then was subsequently featured in The New York Times's T Magazine.^[24][25]

Filmography

Film

Television drama

Variety show

Music video appearances

Discography

Endorsements

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shin Mina.

• Shin Min-a official website (Korean)
• Shin Min-a blog (Korean)
• Shin Min-a at HanCinema
  
• Shin Min-a at the Korean Movie Database
• Shin Min-a at the Internet Movie Database