| Lee Ha-na | |||||||||||
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| Birth Date: | 23 September 1982 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||||
| Occupation: | Actress | ||||||||||
| Years Active: | 2006–present | ||||||||||
| Education: | Dankook University | ||||||||||
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Lee Ha-na (born September 23, 1982) is a South Korean actress. Lee made her acting debut with Alone in Love (2006). She is best known for her role as Kang Kwon-joo in the multiple seasons-procedural thriller Voice (2017–present).
Lee Ha-na was born in Irwon bon-dong, Gangnam District, Seoul. Her father is a composer, best known for folk-rock legend Kim Kwang-seok's signature song "Become Dust".[1]
In 2008, she graduated from the College of Music at Dankook University (Cheonan campus) with a degree in Life Musicology.
Lee Ha-na first appeared in a commercial for telecom KTF's "umbrella service" in 2005. A year later, she made a memorable acting debut in the critically acclaimed television drama Alone in Love, as the extremely odd younger sister of the female protagonist.[2]
She played another supporting role as a small-time swindler in When Spring Comes in 2007. Later that year, Lee was cast in her first leading role in Merry Mary (also known as Me-ri vs. Dae-gu's Attack and Defense Battle), a quirky romance between a mediocre singer and a failed novelist.[3] This was followed by her big screen debut in Le Grand Chef, a film adaptation of Huh Young-man's manhwa Sikgaek, in which Lee played a TV producer who teams up with an aspiring chef.[4]
Unlike her previous cheerful roles, Lee surprised critics and audiences in 2008 when she played a darker character in Women in the Sun (also known as Sisters in Love).[5] In the melodrama, her character wreaks revenge when she learns that her older adopted sister abandoned her (when she was a five-year-old child) at a train station out of jealousy, causing her to grow up impoverished in an orphanage.[6] Lee won an Excellence Award at the year-end KBS Drama Awards.
From November 21, 2008 to April 17, 2009, she was the host/MC of the live music program Lee Ha-na's Peppermint.[7] Before she turned to acting, Lee had early aspirations of becoming a singer, so aside from introducing and interviewing guests, she frequently performed on the show, sometimes accompanying herself on the guitar or piano.[8]
Lee then underwent training for her role as a figure skating coach in Triple, who finds herself in a love triangle with her ex-husband and his best friend who pursues her.[9] [10]
In 2010, Lee was cast opposite veteran actor Ahn Sung-ki in Shin Yeon-shick's film The Fair Love. She played a role of college student who after her father's death, embarks on an awkward yet endearing love affair with his friend, a bachelor in his fifties.[11] [12] This was followed in 2012 by the aviation action film , a remake of Shin Sang-ok's 1964 film Red Scarf.[13]
After a five-year absence from the small screen, Lee returned in High School King of Savvy, a 2014 cable romantic comedy about a high school student who masquerades as an executive at his brother's IT company; she played a temp who shows him the ropes.[14] [15] [16]
In 2015, Lee was cast in the film Journalist, about the ruthless and at times unethical world of news reporting.[17] In the same year, she also starred in KBS2's family-romance Unkind Ladies.[18]
In 2017, Lee starred in OCN's drama Voice as a policewoman with an enhanced sense of hearing.[19] The drama was a hit, and its ratings broke existing OCN viewership records when it aired in Korea.[20] [21] She then filmed comedy film Summer Vacation.[22]
In 2018, Lee reprised her role in Voice 2, the sequel to OCN's drama Voice.[23] [24] Despite the shorter run, Voice 2 surpassed the first season's ratings and eventually became the highest-rated OCN drama.[25] That same year, Lee was appointed as an honorary member of the police force by South Korea's National Police Agency.[26]
In 2019, Lee once again reprised her lead female role in the third season of Voice.[27]
In 2020, Lee starred in the melodrama A Piece of Your Mind.[28]
Lee again returned for the fourth season of Voice in 2021, making her the lead on all four seasons of the Voice series.[29]
Lee was cast in the 2022 KBS2's family weekend drama Three Bold Siblings, which marked her 4th collaboration with screenwriter Kim In-young, after 2007s Merry Mary, 2008s Women in the Sun and 2015s Unkind Ladies.[30]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Alone in Love | Yoo Ji-ho | |
| 2007 | When Spring Comes | Moon Jae-ri | |
| Merry Mary | Hwang Me-ri | ||
| 2008 | Women in the Sun | Yoon Sa-wol | |
| 2009 | Triple | Choi Soo-in | |
| 2014 | High School King of Savvy | Jung Soo-young | |
| 2015 | Unkind Ladies | Jung Ma-ri | |
| Oh My Ghost | radio DJ | Voice cameo (Ep. 1) | |
| KBS Drama Special | Kim Eun-soo | Episode: "Fake Family" | |
| 2017–2021 | Voice | Kang Kwon-joo | Season 1–4 |
| 2018 | Mistress | Mysterious woman | Cameo (Ep. 12) |
| 2020 | A Piece of Your Mind | Moon Soon-ho | |
| 2022 | Three Bold Siblings | Kim Tae-joo | |
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Le Grand Chef | Jin-su |
| 2009 | Dance of Time | Narrator |
| 2010 | The Fair Love | Nam-eun |
| 2012 | Captain Oh Yoo-jin | |
| 2015 | Soo-jin | |
| TBA | Summer Vacation | Jung-sun |
| Year | Title | Artist | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | "Running" | Jung Jae-hyung | |
| 2009 | "Still You (song) | Still You" | Yoon Dohyun |
| 2014 | "Garota" | Erlend Øye |
| width=10 | Year | Song title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | "당신의 연애시대, Love is 2" (Your Age of Love, Love is 2) | Track from Alone in Love OST | |
| 2007 | "하얀 민들레" (White Dandelion) | Track from When Spring Comes OST | |
| "그대 혼자일 때" (When You Are Alone) | Track from Merry Mary OST | ||
| "맛있는세상" (Delicious World) | Track from Le Grand Chef OST | ||
| 2010 | "Fallen" | Track from The Fair Love OST | |
| "우리 (We)" (single) (with Jang Dong-gun, Kim Seung-woo, Hwang Jung-min, Ji Jin-hee and Gong Hyung-jin)[31] | |||
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | SBS Drama Awards | New Star Award | Alone in Love | |
| 2007 | 43rd Baeksang Arts Awards | Best New Actress (TV) | ||
| MBC Drama Awards[35] | Best New Actress | Merry Mary | ||
| Best Couple Award with Ji Hyun-woo | ||||
| KBS Drama Awards | Best New Actress | When Spring Comes | ||
| 2008 | 44th Baeksang Arts Awards | Best New Actress (Film) | Le Grand Chef | |
| 45th Grand Bell Awards | Best New Actress | |||
| 16th Buil Film Awards | Best New Actress | |||
| 7th Korean Film Awards | Best New Actress | |||
| 29th Blue Dragon Film Awards | Best New Actress | |||
| KBS Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries | Women in the Sun | ||
| Best New Actress | ||||
| Popularity Award, Actress | ||||
| 2015 | KBS Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actress in One-Act/Special/Short Drama | KBS Drama Special Fake Family | |
| 2022 | KBS Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actress in a Serial Drama | Three Bold Siblings | |
| Popularity Award, Actress | ||||
| 2023 | 9th APAN Star Awards[36] | Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Serial Drama |