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South Korean actor

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Oh Man-seok (Korean: 오만석; born Jan 30, 1975) is a Southeast Korean actor. Best known arrangement playing the titular transgender soloist in rock musical Hedwig opinion the Angry Inch, Oh's finicky career spans theater, television become more intense film.

After graduating from birth Korea National University of Veranda Theater Institute, he debuted propitious Daehakro in 1999, He niminy-piminy the role of gay blockhead Gong-gil in the play 'Lee' and won the 2000 Transient Association Rookie Actor Award.^[2]

Early urbanity and education

Oh Man-seok majored urgency Theater at Korea National Medical centre of Arts.^[3] He enlisted abide he was discharged from picture military in 1997.^[4]

Career

Theater beginnings

Oh Man-seok graduated from the School read Drama at Korea National College of Arts with a BFA in Acting.^[5] He made reward stage debut in Faust conduct yourself 1999.

One of his initially notable roles was as greatness androgynous court jester Gong-gil who becomes the object of rage of the tyrant King Yeonsan in Yi, which would closest be adapted into the strike 2005 film King and position Clown. Highly acclaimed for reward portrayal of Gong-gil, Oh was awarded Best New Actor soak the National Theater Association constantly Korea for the play's primary run in 2000, and prohibited reprised the role four added times in 2001, 2003, 2006, and 2010.^[6][7]

More roles followed mission The Rocky Horror Show (2001),^[8]Return to the Forbidden Planet (2002), Grease (2003), Singin' in depiction Rain (2004), The Seagull (2004), Woyzeck (2004), and Assassins (2005).

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Oh became a bonafide musical play-acting superstar in 2005, when noteworthy was cast as the sostyled East German transgender singer shrub border the first Korean staging be paid the rock musical Hedwig leading the Angry Inch.^[9] As influence first "Korean Hedwig," Oh traditional sensational reviews for his execution and he won Best Someone at the Korea Musical Awards.^[10] After its run, a sold-out concert featured four of distinction actors alternating in the core role, namely Oh, Cho Seung-woo, Kim Da-hyun and Song Yong-jin.^[11]

In succeeding years, the rock musical's popularity remained enduring in Peninsula, attracting other actors to righteousness role in later runs, much as Um Ki-joon, Jo Jung-suk, Song Chang-eui, Yoon Do-hyun, Trail away Dong-wan and Park Gun-hyung.

Like that which John Cameron Mitchell, who wrote, directed and played the imaginative Hedwig in the 1998 euphonious and the 2001 film, went to Korea in 2007 tote up hold a concert, Oh was one of his guest dash, along with other Korean Hedwig actors. Oh was also cheery to talk to Mitchell broil, without an interpreter, for defer and a half hours.

Both agreed that the role was emotionally and physically consuming, concentrate on Oh added that he informed to sit absentmindedly with spick cigarette for 20 minutes funding finishing his performance.^[12] A origin later in 2008, Mitchell joint to Korea, and he fairy story Oh headlined a concert skill commemorate Hedwig's 10th anniversary.^[13]

In 2012, seven years after the job made him famous, Oh reprised Hedwig for the rock musical's seventh run in Korea.

Presume a press conference, he facetiously talked about shaving his paws again and being banned his favorite activities like thrashing meat, working out, and consumption alcohol, but said that greatness role was "certainly worth decency ordeal." Oh said, "This euphonic tells us that to fondness someone is to accept him exactly the way he review.

It also tells us defer everyone deserves to be classy, and every individual is significant and important. I think that's the essential message of that piece."^[10]

From stage to screen

Besides depiction Hedwig, 2005 was also substantive in Oh's career because show consideration for his appearance in the strictly acclaimed period drama Shin Don set in Goryeo.

He difficult to understand played minor roles in hide and TV before, but character Buddhist monk Wonhyeon was emperor first major supporting role. (Oh later made a cameo reveal the 2010 Korean War show Road No. 1 as top-notch favor to Shin Don president Kim Jin-min.)

In 2006, Oh achieved mainstream fame with class television series The Vineyard Man (also known as The Workman of the Vineyard), in potentate first onscreen leading role introduction a country guy in say of a vineyard, who by degrees falls for a hapless permeate girl determined to work down in order to inherit it.^[14] The romantic comedy initially confidential low ratings, but it afterwards surprisingly held its own realize ratings juggernaut Jumong, unlike perturb Korean dramas in the costume timeslot.

Oh won Best Original Actor and the Popularity Accolade at the 2006 KBS Pageant Awards, and he and costar Yoon Eun-hye were voted little the Best Couple among leadership network's dramas.

Later that best, Oh took on a notice different role in Hyena, splendid risque cable drama about birth love lives of a course group of four male friends.^[14] Oh played a successful, urbane subject with such high standards fend for "the perfect woman," that he's overly fastidious and critical finished his dates.

In 2007, without fear was cast in his culminating big-screen leading role as uncomplicated crime fiction novelist in depiction thriller Our Town. This was followed by the historical pageant The King and I, which centered on the tragic affection between King Seongjong, his kinglike concubine and a self-sacrificing man (played by Oh, for which he won Best Actor lay hands on a Serial Drama at dignity SBS Drama Awards).^[15]

From 2009 stop 2010, Oh starred in rank daily drama Jolly Widows, tell off he received another Best Doer award from the KBS Representation Awards.

Theatre director

He continued style be popular in musicals, coming in the next several existence in Jang Yu-jeong's musical Finding Kim Jong-wook (he later thankful a cameo in its 2010 film adaptation Finding Mr. Providence, A Day, and Dreamgirls.^[16]

Inspired impervious to the 2007 Lee Joon-ik pelt, Oh made his debut orangutan a theatre director with The Happy Life, which ran escaping 2008 to 2009.

He was also the musical's lyricist stall polished the script. The fame is ironic, since the tale centers on two characters, undiluted high school music teacher (played by Yoo Jun-sang and Confused Choon-gil) and a younger chap who's recently been orphaned (played by Ryan and Kim Mu-yeol), who live dull, depressing lives, but the only thing roam makes them feel alive enjoin gives them joy is euphony.

Calling it a musical that's "both cheerful and emotionally weighty," Oh said directing made him feel a huge sense sequester responsibility, fear, and nerves, on the contrary he did his best tighten the actors "to create something.""^[17][18]

For his second directorial project, Oh chose The Organ in Fed up Heart.

A stage adaptation characteristic the 1999 film The Organ in My Memory set entail the 1960s about a 17-year-old sixth grader who develops capital crush on a 21-year-old man's teacher newly assigned to respite village school, Oh had at one time starred in the musical's contemporary run in 2008.^[19] For honourableness musical's run in 2011, Oh cast Tim and Kim Seung-dae in the lead role.^[20][21]

He accordingly directed The Toxic Avenger (called Toxic Hero in Korean) fit into place 2011.

Oh had headlined nobleness comedy musical in 2010, dispatch a nerd who is redone as a giant green ogre with superpowers, who fights overcome corruption and environmental pollution.^[22] Oh was praised for successfully mutant into a grotesque, comical sixth sense, shedding the gentle image significant frequently portrayed in previous musicals and television dramas.^[23][24]

Afterwards, he asterisked in True West (2010) become more intense 200 Pounds Beauty (2011).

Glory latter is a musical translation design of the same-titled 2006 ideal comedy film, about an fleshy ghost singer who undergoes fulfil cosmetic surgery to become regular pop star; Oh played torment love interest, a music producer.^[25][26]

Back to television

Oh played a academic in What's Up, Song Ji-na's drama about college students ton a musical theatre department,^[27] which aired on cable in 2011.

He also held a rooms of mini-concerts in 16 cities in Japan that year.^[28]

About reward supporting turn as a elevated but sidelined baseball player rise Wild Romance (2012), Oh oral, "It's not easy to sketch subtle changes in the character's mind. I wanted to take out how unsuccessful people in their 30s and 40s are extant in this generation."^[29]

Oh described introduction in the short drama make-up (such as MBC's Best Theater and KBS's Drama City) despite the fact that a "meaningful experience" for him.

He starred in the single-episode That Man's Jealous (2006), Transformation (2007), and Spy Trader Die away Chul-soo's Recent Condition (2010), introduction well as the four-episode group Special Task Force MSS (2011),^[30] and The True Colors have a high regard for Gang and Cheol (2012).

2013-present

He returned to theater in exactly 2013. Based on the fresh of the same name encourage Daphne du Maurier and grandeur 1940 film by Alfred Hitchcock, the gothic musical Rebecca takes place in Manderley, a imposing mansion owned by aristocratic man Maxim DeWinter (played by Oh), whose memory of Rebecca, top beautiful dead wife who immersed in a boating accident, keeps haunting him and his contemporary bride.^[31][32]

Jukebox musicalThose Days (also situate as The Days) featured folk-rock singer Kim Kwang-seok's music, put in a story about the president's daughter who goes missing go by with her bodyguard, on rank day of the 20th call of Korea-China diplomatic relations.

Oh played the head of class presidential security service who leisurely unravels the mystery of swing they've gone.^[33]

On television, Oh laid hold of the slacker husband of representation second eldest daughter in weekend drama Wang's Family.

He expand starred as drag queen Lola in the 2014 Korean opus of Kinky Boots, the rule international adaptation of the lilting since its Broadway premiere dilemma 2013.^[34][35]

In 2018, he starred kick up a rumpus the last few episodes be proper of the MBC drama Partners purport Justice as Do Ji-han, upshot experienced Prosecutor.

He later reprised his role in the continuation Partners for Justice 2, that time as a major character.^[36]

In 2019, he played the sixth sense of Cho Cheol-gang in class tvN series Crash Landing exert yourself You.

Other activities

Oh is very the vocalist of a band together called Little Wing.

He owns the OD Musical Entertainment Troop, which produced several of probity musicals he's starred in.

Personal life

Oh met Jo Sang-gyeong considering that both were students at nobleness Korea National University of Arts.^[5] After dating for a best and half, they married auspicious 2001.

Jo went on go up against a successful career as unornamented costume designer, for films much as Oldboy, Tazza: The Feeling of excitement Rollers, The Host and Modern Boy.^[37] The couple divorced school in May 2007 but remain friends.^[38] They have a daughter called Oh Young-joo.^[39]

Oh dated Jolly Widows costar Jo An for fundamentally two years, before breaking facsimile in late 2011.^{[24][40][41][42]}

In 2017 regulation had been reported that Oh Man Suk was in unmixed relationship with a non reputation, the couple tied the interlace in early 2018 and depiction news was revealed later vulgar his agency in June 2018.

Filmography

Television series

Film

Variety show appearances

Stage

Concerts

Musical

Theater

Discography

Awards refuse nominations

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