Gil Hae-yeon

Who is this?

Gil Hae-yeon (Korean: 길해연; born April 11, 1964) is a South Korean actress. She is best known to North American audiences for her performance in the film In Her Place, for which she garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 and won the Wildflower Film Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 3rd Wildflower Film Awards in 2016. In South Korea, her roles have included the television series Goodbye Mr. Black, Working Mom Parenting Daddy, Possessed, Something in the Rain, One Spring Night, Encounter (2018–19), and Woman of 9.9 Billion. She is most active as a supporting actress, playing role of main characters' mothers. Gil also writes children's plays and children's books. She has written over 10 children's books and children's play scripts. She also wrote 'Intensive for Children' based on her experience teaching children in a children's theater class. In 2020, Gil took office as third Chairman of The Korea Theater Welfare Foundation which was established in 2005 to support theater practitioners so that they do not give up theater even in difficult circumstances and are guaranteed basic treatment. The first Chairman Park Jeong-ja and the second Chairman Yoon Seok-hwa.

Career

1. 1964
   Born

Trivia

• •Place of birth: South Korea
• •Citizenship: South Korea
• •Known as: stage actor, film actor, television actor