Park Jeong-ja

From Seoul, South Korea • Born in Mar 12, 1942 (84 years old)

Park Jeong-ja (Korean: 박정자, born March 12, 1942) is a South Korean actress. She made her debut as a theater actor in 1962. She became the first actress to receive the Lee Hae-rang Theatre Award in 1997, a prominent Korean theater award. She is also the only actress to have won the Dong-A Theatre Award for Best Actress three times: for her lead role as Ondal's mother in Where and How Shall We Meet? (1971, 7th edition); and for supporting roles as the second wife in The Egg and the aunt in A Country as Far as the Sky (1986, 22nd edition), as well as Monique in Women in Crisis (1987, 23rd edition). Park Jeong-ja has also achieved significant recognition as a film actress. She received the Grand Bell Awards for Best Supporting Actress twice: in 1975 for director Kim Ki-young's The Promise of the Flesh, and in 1985 for director Jeong Jin-woo's The MA-NIM. Her other notable film appearances include Growing Generously, Anemone, and Widow's Dance. Since its establishment in 2005, Park Jeong-ja has served as chairman of the board of directors for the Korea Activist Welfare Foundation, supporting medical and living expenses for theater practitioners. In 2007, the government awarded her the Bogwan Order of Cultural Merit. In 2008, She was granted membership in the National Academy of Arts of Korea. (Via Wikipedia)