Jeong Ryeo-won

Jeong Ryeo-won

Infobox actor


imagesize= 150px
name = Jeong Ryeo-won
birthdate = birth date and age|1982|1|22
birthplace = Seoul, South Korea
occupation = Actress, singer
yearsactive = 1999?—present
Infobox Korean name
title = Korean name
hangul = 정려원
tablewidth = 254
color = khaki
Jeong Ryeo-won (born January 22, 1982) is a South Korean singer turned actress. She is the ex-member of now disbanded girl group Chakra.

Early life

The second of three children, Jeong was born in Korea but emigrated to Brisbane, Australia at the age of 12 with her family. She studied at Macgregor State High School and graduated there.

“In the first few years in Australia, I couldn’t get along with Australian students,” Jung admits. “Since there were few Asians in the neighborhood, the Australian students were very curious about me, but they also bothered me. When I was in sixth grade, I was standing at a pedestrian crossing one day and a car stopped. The driver rolled down the window and spat at me, shouting, ‘Go home!’

“At first, I didn’t even understand what he said. I had never been abused for being yellow before.” Since then, she studied English hard. “I thought, ‘Hang in there and you’ll soon be able to hold your own in English,’ and I made progress quickly. One year later, I gave a speech as a representative of Asian graduates and talked about my experience of discrimination. I got a big round of applause.” [ [http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200512/200512040009.html For Jung Ryeo-won, It's Time to Kick Back] ]

Jeong was an international business major before she came to Korea, but it was the day she was cast on the street while visiting her mother's country in the summer of 1999 that changed her life, and her career path.

Career start

She originally wanted to be a translator or a professor, but on a trip to Korea in 1999, was discovered by an agent who cast her into the K-pop group Chakra. She was one of the exotic female foursome Chakra, but she confessed she felt like she was wearing uncomfortable clothes all those years when she was in the group. After the girl group disband she made a successful debut as a full-time TV actress in MBC's "My Lovely Samsoon." She said she had to go through 11 auditions in the last year, in which she was cast in none of the roles. She even doubted her decision to become an actress. Fact|date=June 2008

TV series

*Which Star Are You From (MBC, 2006)
*Autumn Shower (MBC, 2005)
*My Lovely Sam-Soon/My Name is Kim Sam Soon (MBC, 2005)
*Hello Franceska (MBC, 2005)
*Saxophone (KBS, 2002)

Filmography

*Hello Ani (2007) /Two Faced Girlfriend/ Two Faces of my Girlfriend
*My Boyfriend is Type-B (2005)
*Emergency 19 (http://www.emergency19.co.kr) (2002)

Music Video

*One by Epik High ft. Ji Sun from Loveholic

CF/print advertisements

*Neutrogena Facewash
*Maypole (clothing)
*Giordano (clothing)
*Minute Maid (with Daniel Henney)

References

External links

* [http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Jeong_Ryeo_Won Drama Wiki]
* [http://www.hancinema.net/korean_Jeong_Ryeo-won.php/ HanCinema the Korean Movie and Drama database profile]


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