Park Ah-in
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- Actor
- Stage actor
Park Ah-in | |
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 Park Ah-in in May 2019. | |
| Born | 12 February 1985 Busan, South Korea |
| Education | BA in Theater Studies |
| Alma mater | Chung-Ang University |
| Occupations |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
| Agent | Beyond J[1] |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 박아인 |
| RR | Bak Ain |
| MR | Pak Ain |
Park Ah-in (Korean: 박아인; born 12 February 1985)[2] is a South Korean actress.[3] She is an alumna of Chung-Ang University, Department of Theater and Film, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Theater Studies. She made her acting debut in 2006 in the horror film Forbidden Floor and since then has appeared in a number of films and television series, including Loner (2008), A Gentleman's Dignity (2012), Descendants of the Sun (2016), Vagabond (2019), Never Twice (2019) and Kkondae Intern (2020).[4]
Park was born in Busan, South Korea, and graduated from the Department of Theater and Film at Chung-Ang University.[5] She got married on November 7, 2020, at the Oksu-dong Cathedral in Seongdong District, Seoul, her spouse being unrelated to the entertainment industry.[6][7]
Career
Park started her acting career with the horror film Forbidden Floor in 2006.[8]
In 2008, she took on the role of policewoman Hanakoin in a stage play Atami Murder Case organized by the Chung-Ang University Performing Film Arts Center.[9]
In 2016, she was cast in the award-winning and popular show of the year Descendants of the Sun as Kim Eun-ji, a thoracic surgery specialist.[10] The same year she also appeared in the mystery thriller Babysitter and another award-winning tvN drama The Good Wife.[11]
In 2018, she starred in tvN's historical romance Mr. Sunshine, where she portrayed a woman who is unable to bear a child so she is regularly abused by her husband. The drama was praised by Park Jin-hai of The Korea Times for its strong female characters.[12]
In 2019, she played Lily, an assassin in the spy crime-thriller Vagabond. For her portrayal of an assassin, she was nominated in the Best New Actress category for SBS Drama Awards.[13] In the same year she also portrayed a Korean version of Paris Hilton as the granddaughter of the chairman and founder of Guseong Hotel, where she also is the head of marketing, in MBC's comedy drama Never Twice.[14]
In 2020, Park appeared as Tak Jeong-eun, a 5-year contract worker of the Marketing Department at Joon Soo Foods, in Kkondae Intern, an MBC TV drama broadcast from May - June, 2020. In the same year she made her first variety show appearance on SBS's comedy show Park-Jang's LOL.[15]
Filmography
Films
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Forbidden Floor | [8] | ||
| 2008 | Loner | [8] | ||
| 2010 | Outlaw | Woman with no brain | [8] | |
| 2012 | Project 577 | Self | ||
| 2013 | Top Star | Won-joon's female junior colleague 2 | ||
| Friends 2 | Female singer | [16] | ||
| 2019 | Hoop It Up | Yoo-jin | ||
Television series
| † | Denotes series that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Bad Man | Da-rim | [8] | |
| 2012 | A Gentleman's Dignity | Attorney Kang | [8] | |
| 2014 | Mama | Suzy | [8] | |
| Discovery of Love | Da-yeon | [8] | ||
| 2016 | Descendants of the Sun | Kim Eun-ji (Thoracic Surgery Specialist) | [8] | |
| Babysitter | ||||
| The Good Wife | Lee Yeon-joo – lawyer | |||
| 2017 | Manhole | Park Young-joo | ||
| 2018 | Mr. Sunshine | Go Ae-soon | [17] | |
| 2018-19 | Clean with Passion for Now | Lee Young-eun, woman in office cleaned by Oh-sol (Ep. 3) | Special appearance | |
| My Strange Hero | Yang Min-ji | [18] | ||
| 2019 | He Is Psychometric | |||
| Welcome to Waikiki 2 | Da-young (Ep. 5) | Special appearance | [19] | |
| My Absolute Boyfriend | ||||
| Vagabond | Lily, an assassin hired by Jessica | [20] | ||
| 2019-20 | Never Twice | Na Hae-ri | [21] | |
| 2020 | Kkondae Intern | Tak Jung-eun | [22] | |
| Sweet Home | The girl next door | Guest appearance | [23] | |
| 2021 | Moonshine | Woon Shim | [24] | |
| 2024 | Wedding Impossible | Choi Seung-ah | ||
| 2026 | Sold Out on You | [25] |
Television show
| Year | Title | Hangul | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Park-Jang's LOL | 박장데소 | Debut | [15][26] |
