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This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee.

Lee Yeon-hee (born January 9, 1988) is a South Korean actress and model under record label and talent agency, SM Entertainment. She made her first appearance in Moon Heejun's music video, "ALONE" in 2001 and officially debuted in the Korean television drama, Sea God as young Junghwa in 2004.

Early life

Lee was born in the Bundang district of Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. In the summer of 2001, thirteen-year-old Lee successfully signed a contract with SM Entertainment after she won the category of "Best Feature" in the SM Entertainment Best Youth contest. For the contest, she acted out a monologue, singing to Dana The Grace's "Until the End of the World", and also did freestyle modeling poses. After she joined the company, she began intense training lessons on acting, singing, and dancing.

Career

Soon after she joined SM Entertainment she began to star in music videos for SM artists, such as those for Moon Heejun, Kangta, Shinhwa, and Fly to the Sky, achieving over SM artist Kim Bomi (of M.I.L.K.) as "The SM music video girl". In the span of one year, she already starred in eight music videos versus Bomi's five in two years. Though Lee had relatively steady work between modeling in magazines, commercial ads, and appearing in music videos, she did not officially debut until late 2004. In November, she had a role in the popular historical drama Sea God. A few months later, she landed a role in the latter episodes of the daily drama My Precious Child. A role in Rebirth brought the number of dramas under her belt to three. Lee kept busy throughout the rest of 2005 by filming many commercials and modeling for various magazines.

Lee's big break came in the form of the movie Millionaire's First Love playing the lead opposite popular actor Hyun Bin. Lee resolves to "act as hard as she can with all that she's learned" for her movie debut. Through the movie, she also makes her singing debut, singing "Do Re Mi" from The Sound of Music in the movie and "Insa" on the original sound track.

Lee's name as "music video girl" became more apparent after labelmate Zhang Liyin's 2006 "Timeless" music video, where she starred alongside Super Junior's Han Geng and Choi Siwon. Two years later, the trio reunited for Zhang's "I WILL" and "The Left Shore of Happiness", which were released in early 2008 in China and weeks later, Korea. Together, netizens commonly termed the trio as "The Timeless Cast".

In 2007, soon after the debut of labelmates Girls' Generation, she revealed that if she had not decided to continue her career as an actress, she would've become a member of Girls' Generation, as they have trained together when they were still trainees.

In 2009, she starred as one of the main cast in East of Eden. As a singer, she was featured on Super Junior's third album Sorry Sorry.^[1]

Filmography

Film

Television series

Music video appearances

• 2001: "ALONE" – Moon Hee Jun
• 2001: "Our Story" – Moon Heejun (Ft. Oh Sang Eun)
• 2001: "Thanks God" – Kangta
• 2002: "Condition of My Heart" – Fly to the Sky
• 2002: "HERO" – Shinhwa
• 2002: "Memories" – Kangta
• 2002: "Pine Tree" – Kangta
• 2002: "Propose" – Kangta
• 2003: "Habit" – Fly to the Sky
• 2004: "My Little Princess" – TVXQ
• 2004: "The Way U Are" – TVXQ
• 2005: "Persona" – Kangta
• 2006: "Timeless – Zhang Liyin (Ft. Xiah of TVXQ)
• 2008: "Star Wish (I Will)" – Zhang Liyin
• 2008: "The Left Shore of Happiness" – Zhang Liyin
• 2008: "M-net Love Song 2008"
• 2009: "Wizard Of Oz" – Clazziquai

Featurings

• 2009: "Club No.1" in Sorry, Sorry – Super Junior

Awards

• 2008 MBC Drama Awards: Best New Actress Award (East of Eden)
• 2008 MBC Drama Awards: Popularity Award (East of Eden)
• 2008 MBC Drama Awards: Best Couple Award (with Song Seung Hun in East of Eden)
• 2008 31st Golden Cinematography Awards : New Actress Award (M)^[2]

References

1. ^ "Lee Yeon-hee and TVXQ is featured in Super Junior's third album" (in Korean). Moneytoday. 2009-03-09. http://star.moneytoday.co.kr/view/stview.php?no=2009030908325038262&type=1&outlink=1. Retrieved 2009-03-09. 
2. ^ (Korean) "포토 하정우-박진희, '제31회 황금촬영상' 남녀 주연상 수상"]. AFPBB News. December 26, 2008. http://www.afpbb.co.kr/article/korean/korean-entertainment/korean-movie/2033910/647739. Retrieved December 26, 2008. 

External links

• Official website (Korean)
• Lee Yeon-hee at HanCinema