# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/choi-jong-won
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:46:06.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/choi-jong-won"
name: "Choi Jong-won"
slug: "choi-jong-won"
description: "Choi Jong-won is a South Korean actor and politician. Choi began his acting career in theater, then made his screen debut in 1978 and became known as a veteran actor of stage, film and television of over forty years. He won Best Supporting Actor at the Grand Bell Awards in 1995 for the Joseon-era period drama The Eternal Empire."
tagline: "South Korean actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/umMcKwBGHJui7Gr9iyQdQmUlKnL.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-01-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.498382666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0158838/"
    handle:    "nm0158838"
sources:
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Jong-won"
    title: "Choi Jong-won"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%89_%DA%86%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "تشوى چونج ون (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Jong-won"
    title: "Choi Jong-won"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B5%9C%EC%A2%85%EC%9B%90"
    title: "최종원"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B4%94%E9%8D%BE%E5%85%83"
    title: "崔鍾元"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12619841"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1565982"
    title: "Choi Jong-won"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump