
Choi Eun-hee
Acting
Born: 1926-11-20 · Gwangju, South Korea
Died: 2018-04-16
Biography
Choi Eun-hee (November 20, 1926 – April 16, 2018) was a South Korean actress, who was one of the country's most popular stars of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, Choi and her then ex-husband, movie director Shin Sang-ok, were abducted to North Korea, where they were forced to make films until they sought asylum at the US Embassy in Vienna in 1986. They returned to South Korea in 1999 after spending a decade in the United States.
🎬 Movies (30)

Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
2024
Herself

The Lovers and the Despot
2016
Self - Actress / Various Roles

The Country I Saw, Part 2
2009
Director

The Country I Saw, Part 3
2009
Director

Keeping the Vision Alive
2002
Herself

I'll Be Seeing Her
2002
Herself

The Country I Saw
1987
Director

A Traffic Controller on Crossroads
1986
Producer

Love, Love, My Love
1985
Chunhyang's mother

The Tale of Shim Cheong
1985
Shim Cheong's mother

Salt
1985
Mother

Runaway
1984
Song Ryul's wife

An Emissary of No Return
1984
Director
I Love Mama
1975

An Unmarried Teacher
1973
Director

Women of Yi-Dynasty
1969

The Homeless Wanderer
1968

Woman
1968

The Land of Korea
1968

Six Daughters
1967

Mountain
1967

The Phantom Queen
1967

Mounted Bandits
1967

One-sided Love of Princess
1967
Director

The Monkey Goes West
1966

The Sino-Japanese War and Queen Min the Heroine
1965
Queen Min

The Story of Bae Local Offcial
1965

The Woman Coming in Fall
1965

The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-in-law
1965
Jum-soon

Red Scarf
1964
Ji-seon