Shin eun kyung biography sample

South Korean actress

For the South Korean actress born in 1994, see Shim Eun-kyung.

In this Korean name, the family name is Shin.

Shin Eun-kyung (Korean: 신은경; born 15 February 1973) is a South Korean actress.

She is best known for her leading roles in Downfall (1997) and My Wife Is a Gangster (2001). Shin is most prominent Korean actress in the 1990s, alongside Shim Eun-ha, Ko So-young and Jeon Do-yeon, whom she starred with on General Hospital.

Career

Shin began appearing in commercials in 1986 at the age of 13, and made her television debut in 1988 on KBS. Throughout the late eighties and early nineties, she acted in a great number of films and TV dramas (notably in the 2001 medical dramaGeneral Hospital), garnering fame for her warm screen presence.^[1] In 1997, however, she took on her most daring role as a prostitute in veteran director Im Kwon-taek's Downfall.^[2] The film was a box-office success, leading her