Yoo Yeon Seok 유연석

ABOUT

Yoo Yeon Seok 유연석 is a Korean male actor in South Korea. In his junior year in high school, he decided to take up acting, so he followed his brother, who was studying another year to enter university, to Seoul and they lived together.

While taking acting classes, the high schooler met a friend who would later work on the costume staff of film director Park Chan Wook. Remembering that he resembled actor Yoo Ji Tae, she gave him a call about auditioning for a role. So without having to pass out his resume, he made his acting debut as Yoo's younger counterpart in the acclaimed 2003 film "Oldboy".

Upon graduation from Sejong University with a degree in Film Arts, he resumed his acting career in 2008. At his agency's recommendation, he began using the stage name Yoo Yeon Seok, dropping his birth surname Ahn. Yoo received his best reviews yet for playing a sensitive ex-boyfriend searching for his child in the indie film "Re-encounter".

Soon after, he became known to mainstream audiences as the rich and spoiled antagonist in the box office hit melodramas "Architecture 10" and "A Werewolf Boy". He further raised his profile in 2013, with the comedy film "Born to Sin"g and the fantasy series "Gu Family Book".

PROFILE

• Name: 유연석 / Yoo Yun Suk (Yu Yeon Seok)
• Real name: 안연석 / Ahn Yun Suk
• Birthdate: 1984-Apr-11
• Height: 183 cm
• Weight: 73 kg
• Profession: Actor
• Talent agency: Starship Entertainment

FILMOGRAPHY

TV Shows

• Hospital Playlist 2 (tvN, 2021)
• Hospital Playlist (tvN, 2020)
• Mr. Sunshine (tvN, 2018)
• Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim (SBS, 2016)
• Warm and Cozy (MBC, 2015)
• Reply 1994 (tvN, 2013)
• Gu Family Book (MBC, 2013)
• What is Mom (MBC, 2012)
• Tasty Life (SBS, 2012)
• Late Night Hospital (MBC, 2011)
• Pure Pumpkin Flower (SBS, 2010)
• Running (MBC, 2010)
• Soul (MBC, 2009)
• Dream (SBS, 2009)
• General Hospital 2 (MBC, 2008)

TV Show Theme Songs

• Butterfly with Mido and Parasol - Hospital Playlist 2 OST (2021)
• Running in the Sky with Mido and Parasol - Hospital Playlist 2 OST (2021)
• It's My Life with Mido and Parasol - Hospital Playlist 2 OST (2021)
• Is It Still Beautiful with Mido and Parasol - Hospital Playlist 2 OST (2021)
• Someday with Mido and Parasol - Hospital Playlist 2 OST (2021)
• I Like You with Mido and Parasol - Hospital Playlist 2 OST (2021)
• Rain and You with Mido and Parasol - Hospital Playlist 2 OST (2021)
• You Have a Crush On Me with Mido and Parasol - Hospital Playlist 2 OST (2021)
• To You - Hospital Playlist 2 OST (2021)
• Let's Forget It with Mido and Parasol - Hospital Playlist 2 OST (2021)
• Superstar with Mido and Parasol - Hospital Playlist 2 OST (2021)
• Already One Year with Mido and Parasol - Hospital Playlist 2 OST (2021)
• Me to You, You to Me with Mido and Parasol - Hospital Playlist OST (2020)
• Oh! What a Shiny Night with Mido and Parasol - Hospital Playlist OST (2020)

Movies

• Perfect Proposal (2015)
• The Mood That Day (2015)
• Beauty Inside (2015)
• The Royal Tailor (2014)
• Whistle Blower (2014)
• Hwa-yi (2013)
• Born to Sing (2013)
• Wolf Boy (2012)
• Scary Stories (2012)
• Two Weddings and a Funeral (2012)
• Architecture 101 (2012)
• Eighteen, Nineteen (2012)
• Moscow (2011)
• Re-encounter (2011)
• Short! Short! Short! 2009 (2009)
• A Mercy Killing (2008)
• Old Boy (2003)

TV Theme Songs

• Only Feeling You, Reply 1994 OST with Jung Woo, Son Ho Joon

Recognitions

2018 3rd Asia Artist Awards

 

• Artist of the Year - Television / Film
• Best Actor Award

2018 2nd Seoul Awards

 

• Best Supporting Actor (Mr. Sunshine)

2016 SBS Drama Awards

• Excellence Actor in Genre Drama (Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim)
• Best Couple Award with Seo Hyun Jin (Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim)
• Best Kiss Award with Seo Hyun Jin (Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim)

2016 Korea Film Actors Association Awards

• Popularity Award (Mood of the Day)

2015 MBC Drama Awards

 

• Top 10 Stars Award (Warm and Cozy)

2014 7th Style Icon Awards

 

• Top 10 Style Icons