Lee Da-hae

Popular South Korean actress Lee Da-He has won several awards. She has starred in numerous Korean dramas, such as Miss Ripley (2011), The Slave Hunters (2010), My Girl (2005), and Green Rose (2005). Being able to speak Korean, Japanese, English, and Chinese fluently has made Lee Da-hae extremely well-liked in China. She is the first Korean actress to appear in Chinese dramas and deliver her lines in Mandarin.

Lee relocated to Sydney, Australia, with her family when she was in the fifth grade. She was referred to as the "Korean Dancer Girl" at school and participated in traditional Korean dance performances at several festivals during her teens. She studied in Australia and lived overseas for several years, which helped her become proficient in Chinese and English. After winning a pageant while on break from school, Lee, then a junior at Burwood Girls High School, traveled back to Seoul alongside her mother to pursue an acting career.

Lee, who was well-versed in traditional Korean dances, made his way into the entertainment industry by winning the Miss Chunhyang pageant in 2001. She began her acting career playing small and supporting roles in South Korean television dramas till In 2004 when she landed her first lead role in the Im Sung-han drama "Lotus Flower Fairy," where she played the innocent-hearted daughter of a shaman who becomes estranged from her family and society at large after her identity is revealed. The crowd instantly applauded her as she won Best New Actress at the 41st Baeksang Arts Awards. However, 2005 was going to be Lee's big year. She demonstrated her flexibility in two highly popular, yet distinct, series. Her heroine in Green Rose falls in love with a guy who is falsely accused of trying to kill her father. Years later, she gradually starts to believe that her sweetheart, who everyone thought was dead, is actually a doppelganger. Her first SBS-produced TV show, Green Rose, has Lee back again with her Lotus Flower Fairy co-stars, Han Jin-hee and Jung Hye-sun. She portrayed a charming con artist in the film My Girl, who consents to pose as a long-lost cousin of the hotelier in order to carry out his grandfather's final desires. Particularly My Girl catapulted Lee to fame both domestically and on the Korean Wave.