Bae Doona was born in Seoul, South Korea, on October 11, 1979. Bae Doon is a photographer and South Korean actress. Outside of Korea, she gained notoriety for her parts as a political protester in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and as an archer in The Host (2006) by Bong Joon-ho. She is famous for playing the main female character in the Netflix zombie drama Kingdom, the crime thriller Stranger, and the sci-fi limited series The Silent Sea. Those parts were filmed in Korea.

Bae Doona Net Worth

Bae Doona is a South Korean actress and photographer with a net worth of USD 20 million. Her captivating performances and extraordinary aptitude have propelled her to prominence within the South Korean entertainment sector.

Bae Doona Net Worth
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Bae Doona always astonishes people with how versatile she is. She brings her roles to life on both big and small screens. The high-end brand Louis Vuitton is one of her high-end marketing deals. Her first job as a spokesperson was in 2016 when she wore the brand’s Spring/Summer line.

Bae Early Life

As a child, she went to the theater and practice halls with her stage actor mother, Kim Hwa-young, and learned lines of dialogue as they went. At first, this was unlikely to make her want to be an actress, though. She said, “People might say that I became an actress because my mother is a theater actor.

Early Life
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But those events probably made me feel the opposite way. I thought this job could only be done by people with a lot of ability because I saw so many great artists working with my mother.

Doona Early Career

In 1998, Doona attended Konkuk University. During that time, she was discovered by a modeling agency based in Seoul, which subsequently secured her appearances in various catalogs, including COOLDOG. In 1999, before she finished college, she switched careers and made her starring start in the TV show School.

Early Career
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Bong Joon-ho cast Doona in the 2000 movie Barking Dogs Never Bite because she appeared ready to play the part without makeup, which other South Korean actors wouldn’t do. In 2003, neither Tube nor Spring Bears Love did well at the box office.

After the main filming for Spring Bears Love appeared over, she chose to take some time off from making movies. During her break from film, she started taking pictures. The pictures are posted on her official blog and in the photo essay books she wrote.

Bae Doona Breakthrough and Succesful Career As An Actress

Her reunion with Bong Joon-ho appeared in The Host (2006), which made more money than any other movie in South Korean history. She learned how to shoot an arrow for months for her part. At the world table tennis title in Chiba, Japan in 1991, North Korean player Ri Bun-hui and South Korean player Hyun Jung-hwa beat the Chinese team.

Her 2012 movie As One centered on this true story. In Cloud Atlas, Bae’s first movie in English, she played Sonmi-451, a clone living in a future Korea. Next, Bae turned out in the 2014 movie A Girl at My Door. For their 2015 space opera Jupiter Ascending, she worked with the Wachowskis again. This time, she possessed a small part as a bounty hunter.

Bae subsequently appeared in a 90-minute web film that commercial director Bae Doo-han, her older sibling, oversaw. Red Carpet Dream is a biopic chronicling Bae’s youthful ambitions to become an actress as well as her twenty-year career as an actress. Back on the big screen, Bae appeared in the survival drama The Tunnel with Ha Jung-woo.

In 2019, Bae also played a French-speaking part in the romantic comedy #JeSuisLa, which also stars Alain Chabat. She received a role with Gong Yoo in the 2021 Netflix sci-fi movie The Silent Sea. Her return to movies in 2022 coincided with two movies: Next Sohee by Jung Ju-ri and Broker by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Bae signed with Goodman Story Entertainment on March 3, 2023.

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