Choi Eun-hee

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.

Known For

The Monkey Goes West

Prince Yeonsan

The Moral of Youth

Mother and a Guest

The Last Woman of Shang

Tyrant Yeonsan

Six Daughters

The Flower in Hell

All Movies (63)

• Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim2024 · as Herself
• The Lovers and the Despot2016 · as Self - Actress / Various Roles
• Keeping the Vision Alive2002 · as Herself
• I'll Be Seeing Her2002 · as Herself
• Salt1985 · as Mother
• Love, Love, My Love1985 · as Chunhyang's mother
• The Tale of Shim Cheong1985 · as Shim Cheong's mother
• Runaway1984 · as Song Ryul's wife
• I Love Mama1975
• Women of Yi-Dynasty1969
• Woman1968
• The Land of Korea1968
• The Homeless Wanderer1968
• Mountain1967
• Mounted Bandits1967
• The Phantom Queen1967
• Six Daughters1967
• The Monkey Goes West1966
• The Woman Coming in Fall1965
• The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-in-law1965 · as Jum-soon
• The Story of Bae Local Offcial1965
• The Sino-Japanese War and Queen Min the Heroine1965 · as Queen Min
• Deaf Sam Yong1964
• When Night Falls at Myeongdong1964
• The Last Woman of Shang1964
• Red Scarf1964 · as Ji-seon
• Rice1963
• The Cloud Bridge of Gratitude1963 · as Ok-gyeong
• A Reluctant Prince1963
• Love Affair1963
• Heartlessness1962
• Bound by Chastity Rule1962
• Revenge1962
• The Story of Sim Cheong1962
• A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng1962 · as Ipbun
• Tyrant Yeonsan1962 · as Queen Shin
• Prince Yeonsan1961
• Under the Sky in Seoul1961 · as Kim Hyeon-ok
• The Evergreen1961 · as Chae Yeong-shin
• Mother and a Guest1961 · as Mother
• Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber1961 · as Yeon-hwa
• Seong Chun-hyang1961 · as Seong Chun-hyang
• A Returned Man1960 · as Gyeong-hui
• Madam White Snake1960 · as Madam White Snake
• The Moral of Youth1960
• To the Last Day1960 · as Hye-kyung
• Romance Papa1960 · as Eum-jeon
• A Sad Pastorale1960 · as Han Do-sook
• A Sister's Garden1959 · as Jeong-hui
• Dongsimcho1959 · as Lee Sook-hee
• Chun Hui1959 · as Chun-hui
• It's Not Her Sin1959 · as Young-sook
• A Country Girl1958 · as Kim Ok-gyeong
• The Love Marriage1958 · as Suk-hee
• A College Woman's Confession1958 · as So-yeong
• The Flower in Hell1958 · as Sonia
• The Money1958 · as Ok-gyeong
• The Shadowless Pagoda1957 · as Guseulagi
• The Youth1955 · as Lee In-hwa
• Dream1955 · as Dal-lye
• A Hometown in Heart1949 · as Widow
• The Sun of Night1948
• A New Oath1947