Choi Eun-hee
- Acting
- November 20, 1926 · Gwangju, South Korea
- April 16, 2018
Biography
Choi Eun-hee (November 20, 1926 – April 16, 2018) was a South Korean actress, who was one of the country's most popular stars of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, Choi and her then ex-husband, movie director Shin Sang-ok, were abducted to North Korea, where they were forced to make films until they sought asylum at the US Embassy in Vienna in 1986. They returned to South Korea in 1999 after spending a decade in the United States.
Known for
Filmography
- Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim · Self
- The Lovers and the Despot · Self
- The Country I Saw, Part 3 · Director
- The Country I Saw, Part 2 · Director
- Keeping the Vision Alive · Self
- I'll Be Seeing Her · Self
- The Country I Saw · Director
- A Traffic Controller on Crossroads · Producer
- Salt · Mother
- Love, Love, My Love · Chunhyang's mother
- The Tale of Shim Cheong · Shim Cheong's mother, Co-producer
- Runaway · Song Ryul's wife
- An Emissary of No Return · Director
- I Love Mama
- An Unmarried Teacher · Director
- Women of Yi-Dynasty
- Woman
- The Land of Korea
- The Homeless Wanderer
- Mountain
- Mounted Bandits
- One-sided Love of Princess · Director
- The Phantom Queen
- Six Daughters
- The Monkey Goes West
- The Woman Coming in Fall
- The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-in-law · Jum-soon, Director
- The Story of Bae Local Offcial
- The Sino-Japanese War and Queen Min the Heroine · Queen Min
- Deaf Sam Yong
- When Night Falls at Myeongdong
- The Last Woman of Shang
- Red Scarf · Ji-seon
- Rice
- The Cloud Bridge of Gratitude · Ok-gyeong
- A Reluctant Prince
- Love Affair
- Heartlessness
- Bound by Chastity Rule
- Revenge
- The Story of Sim Cheong
- A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng · Ipbun
- Tyrant Yeonsan · Queen Shin
- Prince Yeonsan
- Under the Sky in Seoul · Kim Hyeon-ok
- The Evergreen · Chae Yeong-shin
- Mother and a Guest · Mother
- Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber · Yeon-hwa
- Seong Chun-hyang · Seong Chun-hyang
- A Returned Man · Gyeong-hui
- Madam White Snake · Madam White Snake
- The Moral of Youth
- To the Last Day · Hye-kyung
- Romance Papa · Eum-jeon
- A Sad Pastorale · Han Do-sook
- A Sister's Garden · Jeong-hui
- Dongsimcho · Lee Sook-hee
- Chun Hui · Chun-hui
- It's Not Her Sin · Young-sook
- A Country Girl · Kim Ok-gyeong
- The Love Marriage · Suk-hee
- A College Woman's Confession · So-yeong
- The Flower in Hell · Sonia
- The Money · Ok-gyeong
- The Shadowless Pagoda · Guseulagi
- The Youth · Lee In-hwa
- Dream · Dal-lye
- A Hometown in Heart · Widow
- The Sun of Night
- A New Oath