Table of Biography
Stephanie Lee is a prominent American-South Korean actress and model. Stephanie Lee gained fame playing supporting roles in popular TV dramas including ‘Yong-Pal’, ‘Schoolgirl Detectives’, ‘Partners for Justice’, and ‘Start-Up’ among several others.
Early Life and Childhood
Stephanie Lee was born on September 14, 1993, and she is currently 30 years old. She was born in Michigan, the U.S. and her zodiac sign is Virgo.
Likewise, her Korean name is Lee Jeong-ah, written in Korean as 이정아 and in Hanja as 李政娥. Similarly, her name ‘Stephanie Lee’ is written in Korean as 스테파니 리.
There is no information regarding her educational journey. She also has yet to share information regarding her parents, siblings, and other family details.
Caption: Stephanie Lee in a childhood photograph. Source: Instagram
Stephanie Lee – Net Worth 2024
This prominent American South Korean actress has earned a decent amount of money throughout her acting career. She has a net worth of $5 million as of 2023. However, there is no information about her salary and other asset values.
Relationship Status
There is no verified information regarding Stephanie Lee’s relationship status and love affairs. She is most probably more focused on her career as an actress and model at present rather than engaging in love affairs.
Or the young actress might be keeping her relationship details private. Before this, she was in a romantic relationship with South Korean rapper Loco. The two recently broke up and the news was confirmed on 20 April 2020.
The public personalities’ respective agencies confirmed that the duo was in a relationship for over a year before they went their separate ways. At present, Loco is completing his mandatory military service.
Body Measurements
Stephanie Lee is quite tall and she stands at a height of approximately 177 cm or 5 feet 8 inches. Likewise, her weight is around 58 kg. She cites that American food made her grow. Some of these food items include hamburgers and pizza.
Caption: Stephanie walking the runway for the Fleamadonna Seoul Spring 2016 Collection. Source: Vogue
Career and Professional Life
Stephanie Lee is a professional actress and model. She has appeared in various Korean TV series including JTBC’s Seonam Girls High School Investigators aka Schoolgirl Detectives in the year 2014 and Partners for Justice in the year 2018.
Likewise, she gained fame thanks to her appearances in TV dramas Yong-Pal and The Second Last Love in the years 2015 and 2016 respectively. Before making her acting debut, she first began her career as a model. She is also popular as the model for “Neutrogena” commercials. Her fans have adored her way of pronouncing the product name and have dubbed her “Neutrogena girl.”
She had already endorsed several international brands even before gaining fame as an actress. Some brands that she has endorsed include Fila, Adidas, Tom Ford, Guess, and Chanel.
The actress promoted these brands in CFs (commercial films) working alongside top celebrities including Gong Yoo and Lee Min Ho.
She has also walked the runways after signing with the top modeling chain agency, Elite Model Management. It is the same agency that signed the model, Tyra Banks, when she was just a high school student. Tyra Banks herself also asked her to be her model.
This is also cited as the reason that prompted the agents from Elite Model Management to scout her ASAP. Furthermore, Tyra Banks also spends time as a fashion photographer. At present, the Korean actress-model is signed with VAST Entertainment.
Caption: Stephanie captured while filming the drama ‘Start-Up’. Source: Instagram
More Acting Projects
Further, in the year 2016, she appeared as a guest on the popular variety show Running Man. Similarly, in the romantic drama The Second Last Love, she appeared opposite actress Ji Jin-hee.
Additionally, her role in Yong Pal is the character Cynthia Park and in Partners for Justice, her character is Stella Hwang in Partners for Justice.
Similarly, she also starred in the TV series The Last Empress playing the role of Oh Hel Ro in the year 2018. She also played the role of Amber in the 2020 MBC drama When IWass the Most Beautiful.
She again gained popularity for her role as Jung Sa-ha in the 2020 TV drama Start-up. For the last project, she worked alongside co-stars Bae Suzy, Nam Joo-hyuk, Kim Seon-ho, and Kang Han-na in the lead roles.
She is also good friends with her fellow model and Start-Up co-star, Nam Joo Hyuk. Nam Joo Hyuk even shared a photo with her on his personal Instagram account on 30 June 2014.
Caption: Stephanie appears on the poster of the drama Partners for Justice’. Source: Instagram
More Details
Talking about her film roles, she played the role of the character Dal Rae in the 2018 film The Great Battle. She then appeared as Hwang Sun-hee in the 2019 film The Divine Move: Ghost Move.
Before her acting career in TV series and films, she already appeared in the Korean band 2 PM’s song Come Back When You Hear This Song in the year 2013.
She has also hosted several programs including the 10th Asia Model Awards KBS World in the year 2015. She appeared alongside Kang Seung-hyun, and ShinHyun-Joonn for this program hosting.
Similarly, she also hosted the 20th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in the year 2016. For this, she worked alongside Park Sung-woong. Then she later hosted the 54th Grand Bell Awards TV Chosun alongside Shin Hyun-Joon in the year 2017.
Awards
She has also won several awards so far. She bagged the “New Model Award” at the 2013 Korea Fashion Photographers Association Awards.
She then won the CFDK Fashion Awards’ “Model of the Year Award”, as well as the “CF Model Award” at the 8th Asian Model Awards in the same year (2013). Then in 2014, she won the “Best Dressed Female Model” at the 2014 29th Korea Best Dresser Swan Award.
Caption: Stephanie posing for a photo with her on-screen lover in the drama ‘Start-Up’ played by actor Yoo Su-bin. Source: Instagram
Stephanie Lee – Social Media
Talking about her social media presence, Stephanie is available on Instagram under the username @stephanielee199.
The actress has earned more than 607k followers and shared exactly 340 posts at the time of writing this biography (December 2020). The actress doesn’t seem to have a personal account on other platforms including Twitter, Facebook, YouTubee, Twitch, etc.