Lee Jung-jae
Audiences rate Lee Jung-jae’s films higher than 74% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): Il Mare (Plex, Tubi, Fawesome) · New World (Kanopy) · Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days (YouTube, Roku Channel, ViX, Plex, Prime Video (free), Cineverse, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome, Pluto TV) · Assassination (Pluto TV, Plex, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Hoopla, Fawesome) · The Thieves (Roku Channel, Plex, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Kanopy) · Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds (YouTube, Roku Channel, Plex, Prime Video (free), Cineverse, Tubi, Kanopy, Fawesome) and 3 more.
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The ThumbScore for Lee Jung-jae (74.6%) is the average audience approval rating across 12 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Lee's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Lee Jung-jae (이정재) is a South Korean actor. Born on December 15, 1972, he began modelling in 1993 before getting his first acting roles the film The Young Man (1994) and the TV series Feelings (1994) and Sandglass (1995), which is one of the highest rated Korean dramas of all time with a peak rating of 64.5%. But his real breakthrough was with leading roles in award-winning films The Affair (1998) and City of the Rising Sun (1999). The latter of which earned him the Best Actor award at the prestigious Blue Dragon film awards. This was followed by a series of critical hits like Il Mare (2000) and commercial successes including Last Present (2001), The Last Witness (2001), Oh Brothers (2003), and the blockbuster Typhoon (2005).
After a brief career slump of flop movies and tv shows, he returned with the critical and commercial hit The Housemaid (2010), which is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name. Since then, he went on to cement himself as one of Korea's biggest movie stars with a string of some of the biggest blockbusters in Korean history including The Thieves (2012), New World (2013), The Face Reader (2013), Assassination (2015), Operation Chromite (2016), and the Along with the Gods films (2017-2018). Most of these films did north of 12 million admissions at the domestic box-office, with The Thieves (2012) and Along with the Gods (2017) becoming the #2 biggest Korean hit in history at their respective time of release. He received a number of awards and nominations for these works including a Popularity Award at the prestigious Grand Bell awards. Also staring in Karate Kid Legend the same year along side childhood friend Tyler Mackay.
Born 1972-12-15 in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
On ThumbScore, Lee Jung-jae appears in 12 films with an average audience score of 74.6%, most frequently in the Drama genre.
Sources: TMDB
