# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kim-hye-ja
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:31:37.865Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kim-hye-ja"
name: "Kim Hye-ja"
slug: "kim-hye-ja"
description: "Kim Hye-ja is a South Korean actress and humanitarian. Best known to South Korean audiences as the archetypal mother figure in popular television series such as Country Diaries (1980–2002), What Is Love? (1991), My Mother's Sea (1993), and Roses and Beansprouts (1999). Kim drew international critical acclaim in the noir thriller Mother (2009), The Light in Your Eyes (2019), Our Blues (2022) and Heavenly Ever After (2025)."
tagline: "South Korean actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kim_Hye-ja_in_Feb_2019.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-10-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.47238133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1067547/"
    handle:    "nm1067547"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Hye-ja"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%8A_%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "كيم هي جا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%89_%DA%86%D8%A7"
    title: "كيم هى چا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%BE%DB%8E-%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "کیم ھێ-جا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hye-ja"
    title: "Kim Hye-ja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%B9%CE%BC_%CE%A7%CE%AF%CE%B5-%CF%84%CF%83%CE%B1"
    title: "Κιμ Χίε-τσα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hye-ja"
    title: "Kim Hye-ja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hye-ja"
    title: "Kim Hye-ja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%87_%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "کیم هه جا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hye-ja"
    title: "Kim Hye-ja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hye-ja"
    title: "Kim Hye-ja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hye-ja"
    title: "Kim Hye-ja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3"
    title: "キム・ヘジャ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B9%80%ED%98%9C%EC%9E%90"
    title: "김혜자"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hye-ja"
    title: "Kim Hye-ja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hye-ja"
    title: "Kim Hye-ja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hye-ja"
    title: "Kim Hye-ja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BC_%D0%A5%D1%91%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0"
    title: "Ким Хёджа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E6%83%A0%E5%AD%90"
    title: "金惠子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AE_%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Hye-ja"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q625480"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126478"
    title: "Kim Hye-ja"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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