Joo Jin-mo is a South Korean actor and performer. He rose to stardom with the 1999 smash hit, ‘Happy End’. He began acting in TV dramas before he started acting in movies. He is also known for starring in TV shows like ‘Fashion 70’s’ (2005), ‘Flowers in Fog’ (2013), ‘Woman with a Suitcase’ (2016), ‘Bad Guys : City of Evil’(2017) etc. He went on winning various awards and accolades for his performances in certain movies. He was first cast as a lead in the 1999’s movie ‘Dance Dance’. The movie didn’t do very well at the box office but his role got him enough publicity to gainhim his next project, ‘Happy End’. With its commercial as well as critical success, the movie turned him into an overnight star. Other movies that he has starred in are ‘Musa: The Warrior’(2001), ‘Puzzle’ (2006), ‘A Love’ (2007), ‘A Frozen Flower’ (2008), ‘A Better Tomorrow’ (2010), ‘Gabi’ (2012) etc. Apart from doing movies and TV shows, Joo has also done theatre in 1997 (‘Taxi Driver’) and 2005 (‘Gone with the Wind’). He has also lent his voice to the late singer Kim Hyun-sik’s single, ‘Like Rain, Like Music’, which released in 2011 under music label, CJ E&M.
