Shin Min-a

Shin Min-a
Shin Min-a at LG Cinema 3D World Festival, on March 31, 2012
Born	Yang Min-a (1984-04-05) April 5, 1984 Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Education	Dongguk University - Performing Arts
Occupation	Actress, Model
Years active	2001 – present
Agent	O& Entertainment
Religion	Christian
Korean name
Hangul	신민아
Hanja	申敏娥
Revised Romanization	Sin Min-a
McCune–Reischauer	Sin Mina
Birth name
Hangul	양민아
Revised Romanization	Yang Min-a
McCune–Reischauer	Yang Min'a
Website
shinmina.co.kr

Shin Min-a (born Yang Min-a on April 5, 1984) is a South Korean actress. She is best known for starring in television dramas such as A Love to Kill and My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox.

Career

Shin Min-a began her career as a model for teen magazine KiKi in 1998, then appeared in several music videos for K-pop boyband g.o.d, until her acting debut in 2001. The newcomer quickly rose to stardom, through the high school martial arts comedy Volcano High with Jang Hyuk,^[1] and the college romance Madeleine with Jo In-sung. She took on a supporting role in Kim Ji-woon's film noir A Bittersweet Life, reuniting her with previous Beautiful Days co-star Lee Byung-hun. This was followed by leading roles in the melodrama A Love to Kill with Rain, the romantic comedy The Beast and the Beauty with Ryoo Seung-bum, and the psychological thriller The Devil with Uhm Tae-woong and Ju Ji-hoon.

As Shin entered her mid-twenties, she began showcasing more maturity in her choice of roles, playing a sexy counterculture singer in Go Go 70s,^[2] an unfaithful wife in The Naked Kitchen, and a cynical young woman in search of her father in Sisters on the Road.^[3] But Shin became best known for her portrayals of supernatural horror icons revamped into endearingly innocent yet spunky heroines in the rom-com My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox (2010),^[4] and the historical drama Arang and the Magistrate (2012).^[5][6]

After appearing in The X, a 2013 spy thriller short film directed by Kim Jee-woon, Shin returned to the big screen in 2014 in Gyeongju, an introspective arthouse romance opposite Park Hae-il.^[7] This was followed by romantic comedy My Love, My Bride, in which she and Jo Jung-suk played a newly married couple; it was a remake of the same-titled 1990 hit which starred Choi Jin-sil and Park Joong-hoon.^[8][9][10]

Other activities

After her travels were documented on the cable channel O'live in 2008,^[11] Shin published a book titled Shin Min-a's French Diary in 2009.^[12]

She has also contributed her vocals to several singles and soundtracks.^[13][14]

Shin is one of the most in-demand and highest paid commercial endorsers in South Korea. Notable among her forays into branded entertainment is the 2008 multi-episode Summer Days opposite Hyun Bin and Ryoo Seung-bum for LG Xnote featuring music by You Hee-yeol,^[15] as well as Friends & Love, a movie-style extended advertisement for Giordano in 2011 costarring Jung Woo-sung and So Ji-sub.^[16]

In 2009, Shin went to Milan, Italy to shoot a photo spread for Elle Korea with Calvin Klein model Jamie Dornan.^[17] In 2011, she was chosen as the first Asian model for the DIY Project ad campaign of American clothing brand Rag & bone,^[18][19] then was subsequently featured in The New York Times's T Magazine.^[20][21]

Filmography

Shin Min-a on February 18, 2009

Film

Television drama

Music video

Discography

Endorsements

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shin Mina.

• Shin Min-a Official Facebook Page (Korean)
• Shin Min-a official website (Korean)
• Shin Min-a blog (Korean)
• Shin Min-a at HanCinema
• Shin Min-a at the Korean Movie Database
• Shin Min-a at the Internet Movie Database