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Kim Hye-ja

South Korean actress · South Korea · On the map · Actors · Born 1941 · age 85

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 Hye-ja is read about 429 times a day, in 18 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 12 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 124 days, one point a day.

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2026김혜자의 안부-죽지마세요SeriesStill ShiningFilm, 2026Soon-ok2023Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film ClubFilm2022Our BluesSeries, Kang Ok-dong2017The WayFilm, Soon-ae2016Dear My FriendsSeries, Jo Hee-ja2014How to Steal a DogFilm, Lady Marcel2013Home AloneSeries2011Living Among the RichSeries2010Mother, Son and Murder: The Making of MotherFilm2009MotherFilm, Mother2006Princess HoursSeries, Queen Dowager Park2002Since We MetSeries, Jo Nam-deuk1999MayonnaiseFilm, Mother1997그대 그리고 나Series1991What is Love?Series, Yeo Soon-ja1982Late AutumnFilm, Hye-rim1980Countryside ChroniclesSeries, Lee Eun-sim1941Born25 October 1941

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Filmography 8

30 credits on file

Television 22

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Awards

Asian Film Award for Best Actress

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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).

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South Korea
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Actors
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Actor
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Born 1941 · age 85