Ahn Sung-ki

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Ahn Sung-ki
Korean name
Hangul 안성기 Hanja 安聖基 Revised Romanization An Seonggi McCune- Reischauer An Sŏngki

Ahn Sung-ki (born 1 January 1952) is known to the public as the "National Best Actor of Korea". A Roman Catholic,^[1] he was born in Daegu and grew up as a child actor, appearing in director Kim Ki-young's celebrated film The Housemaid (1960).^[2]. Starting from the 1980s, he appeared in nearly 100 movies. He was a graduate of the Vietnamese department of the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Because of his ability to speak several foreign languages, UNICEF appointed Ahn as a representative, and his image is often seen in advertisements on planes travelling to Korea. He acted twice as the President of Korea in the movies the Romantic President (2002) and The Korean Peninsula (2006).

Contents 1 Filmography 2 Trivia 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1957	Twilight Train		First film
1959	Defiance of a Teenager		San Francisco International Film Festival Golden Special award for child actor The Ministry of Culture and Information Film Awards
1960	The Housemaid	Son of the composer
1961	Take it Easy, Mother
	Pig's Dream
1962	Son and Mother
1965	Story of Yalke
1967	A White Crow		Last film as a child actor
1977	Soldiers and Girls
1978	The Third Mission
1979	Rainy Days
	The Night Fair
1980	A Fine, Windy Day	Tok-bae	Grand Bell Awards, Best Fresh Actor
1981	Children Of Darkness
	Mandala	Bo-boong	Korean Awards of Play, Film and Art, Best Actor
	A Small Ball
	Come Low Down unto Us	Mr. Sung
1982	The Nest of Another People
	Man of Iron	Dong-ryul	Grand Bell Awards, Best Actor
	The Fallen Children
	The Misty Village	Kae-chul	Grand Bell Awards, Best Actor PaekSang Arts Awards, Best Actor Korean Film Critic Association Award, Best Actor
	People in a Slum	Chu-suk
1983	Lying Like Grasses	Walter
	Flower on the Equator	Mr. M	PaekSang Arts Awards, Best Actor
1984	Between The Knees	Cho-bin
	At Deep and Deeper
	Deep Blue Night	Baek Ho-bin	Grand Bell Awards, Best Actor PaekSang Arts Awards, Best Actor Korean Awards of Play, Film and Art, Best Actor
	The Winter Of The Year Was Warm	Il-whan
	Whale Hunting	Min-woo
1985	Eoudong	Kalme
	Whale Hunting: part two
1986	Hwang Jin yi	The Shoemaker
	Lee Jang-Ho's Baseball Team	Manager Sung Byung-ho
	Moonlight
	Lady-in-waiting
1987	Hellow, God!	Kim Byung-tae
	Story of Lee Seu-il
	Our Sweet Days of Youth	Kim Yung-min	Asian Pacific Film Festival Awards, Best Actor
1988	Chilsu and Mansu	Park Man-soo
	The Age of Success	Kim Bang-chul	PaekSang Arts Awards, Best Actor
	Gagman	Lee Jung-se
	Lee Jang-Ho's Baseball Team: part two
1990	North Korean Partisan In South Korea	Lee Tae	Chunsa Film Art Awards, Best Actor
	The Dream	Cho-sing
1991	Stairways of Heaven	Kim Yun-gyun
	Teenage Love Song	Je-chul
	Berlin Report	Sung-min
	Who Saw the Dragon's Toenails	Choi Jung-soo	PaekSang Arts Awards, Best Actor
1992	White Badge	Han Ki-ju	Asian Pacific Film Festival Awards, Best Actor
	Blue In You	Lee Ho-suk
1993	Two Cops	Cho gyunn-su	Grand Bell Awards, Best Actor (with Park Joong-hoon)
	To the Starry Island	Kim Chul
1994	The Taebaek Mountains	Kim Bom-woo
1995	The Hair dresser	Henri Park
	Declaration as genius	Ahn Sang-ki
	The Eternal Empire	The king	Korean Film Critic Association Award, Best Actor
	Mommy, star and sea anemone	Captain Choi
	Bitter & Sweet	Mr. Ahn
1996	Festival	Lee Jeung-sup	Korean Film Critic Association Award, Best Actor
	Adventure of Mrs.Park	Mr. X, ditective
	Sleeping Man	Takuji	Japanese credit
1997	Taekwondo	Mr. Kim	Korean / Polish credit
1998	Bedroom & Courtroom	Myun Sung-ki, lawyer
	Spring in My Hometown	Sung-min's father
	The Soul Guardian	Father Park Yun-gyu
	Art Museum by the Zoo	Seo In-gwon Choi In-gwon
1999	Nowhere to Hide	Chang Sung-min, killer
	The Truth Game	Cho Jae-hyung
2000	Black Hole	"I"
	Kilimanjaro	Bong-ge
2001	The Warrior	Chin Lik-bu	Blue Dragon Film Awards, Best Actor in a Supporting Role
	Black Narcissus (2001 film)	Hwan Seok
	Chi-hwa-seon	Kim Byung-moon
	My Beautiful Girl, Ma-ri	Kyeong-min (voice)	an animation film
2002	The Romantic President	President Han Min-wook
2003	Silmido	Kim Je-hyun
2004	The Bad Utterances	Narrator
	Arahan	Cha-woon
2005	Duelist
2006	The Korean Peninsula	The President
	A Battle of Wits	Xiang Yan-zhong	Chinese / Japanese / Korean credit
	Radio Star	Park Ming-soo	Grand Bell Awards, Best Actor Blue Dragon Film Awards, Best Actor (with Park Joong-hoon)
2007	May 18	Park Hoon-soo
2008	My New Partner	Kang Min-ho
	The Divine Weapon	Seul-ju

[edit] Trivia

• Ahn graduated Kyundong junior high school, from which Cho Yong-pil graduated.
• Go, Shogi and Cue sports are well known as Ahn's hobby, but he confesses in the interview that he has not played cue sports; he also tells his profiles publicized about twenty years ago are still on the internet.
• Ahn is critical about plastic surgery; he told that plastic surgery damaged actors' identity, in Park Joong-hoon's Holiday Talk Show on January 18, 2009.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Shim, Yeong-seop (2004-05-01). "미워할 수 없는 남자 안성기 Ahn Sung-ki, The Man You Can't Hate (article & interview)" (in Korean). Dong-a Ilbo. http://www.donga.com/docs/magazine/shin/2004/04/29/200404290500041/200404290500041_1.html. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.