Jeon Do-yeon spent five years starring in television dramas before making her film debut opposite Han Suk-kyu in The Contact. She went on to play many diverse roles in films such as A Promise (1998) and The Harmonium in My Memory (1999) for which she received two awards for Best Actress, The Blue Dragon and The Grand Bell. Her other films include Happy End (1999), Park Heung-shik’s debut I Wish I Had a Wife (2001), and his drama My Mother, the Mermaid (2004); Ryoo Seung-wan’s No Blood No Tears (2002), E J-yong’s Untold Scandal (2003), based on the famous French novel (Dangerous Liasions), and Park Jin-pyo’s You’re My Sunshine (2005). Her performance in that film helped turn the film into a box-office hit and won her many local acting awards. Jeon Do-yeon won Best Leading Actress at Cannes in 2007 for her performance in Secret Sunshine (2007).
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
