Table of Biography
Shin Hye-sun is a prominent South Korean actress. Shin Hye-sun gained popularity through her various roles in films and TV dramas including “A Violent Prosecutor“, “Innocence”, “Mr. Queen”, “Still 17”, and “Legend of the Blue Sea” among numerous others.
Early Life and Childhood
Shin Hye-sun was born on August 31, 1989, and she is currently 32 years old. She hails from Seoul, South Korea, and her zodiac sign is Virgo.
Her name is written in Korean as 신혜선 and in Hanja as 申惠善. While translating her name from Korean to English, it is also written as Sin Hyeseon or Shin Hae-sun.
Regarding her educational journey, she studied at the National High School of Traditional Korean Arts, Sejong University majoring in Film Arts.
Talking about her family, Hye-sun has an older sister. However, Hye-sun has not revealed the identities of her family members. Likewise, Miss Shin also has a pet dog.
Shin Hye-sun – Net Worth 2023
This prominent 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, she hasn’t disclosed her salary and other asset values yet.
Relationship Status
There is no verified information regarding Shin Hye-sun’s relationship status and love affairs. The actress might be single and more focused on her acting career. Or Hye-sun might be in a relationship but likes to keep her personal life away from the public.
Body Measurements
Caption: Shin Hye-sun plays the role of an excellent violinist in the drama ‘Still 17’. Source: Instagram
Actress Shin Hye-sun stands tall at an approximate height of 171 cm or 5 feet 7 inches. Likewise, Hye-sun’s weight is around 50 kgs or 110 lbs and her blood type is “O”.
Other than this, there is no further information regarding the actress’s other body measurement details like her chest-waist-hip measurements, dress size, shoe size, etc. Moreover, Hye-sun has dark brown hair and silky hair of the same color.
Professional Life
Caption: Hye-sun captured at the shooting location. Source: Instagram
Professionally, Shin Hye-sun is a prominent actress. Hye-sun made her debut in the TV series School 2013. It is an installment of the long-running School series. She then played her first lead role in the drama My Golden Life.
The actress later gained international recognition through her lead role in Angel’s Last Mission: Love in the year 2019, Still 17 and The Hymn of Death in 2018, and Mr. Queen in 2020/2021.
She is signed under the South Korean entertainment company YNK Entertainment (CJ E&M).
The prominent actress developed the desire to act while she was still in elementary school.
At a young age, she wanted to be an actress to meet Won Bin who was in the TV drama Autumn in My Heart at that time. She slowly succeeded in passing the audition to cast a few schoolgirl roles. She then played a minor character with the same name as hers.
2015 – 2017
Caption: Hye-sun posing for a photo with her co-star L (Kim Myung-soo). Source: Instagram
Actress Shin began to land bigger roles in the year 2015. It was with Oh My Ghost and She Was Pretty. Although both titles were romantic comedies, her characters varied significantly. The famous actress then had her breakthrough in the year 2016. It was with Five Enough.
Her role as a gullible, naively romantic woman and the actress’s pairing with actor Sung Hoon gained popularity among the viewers.
In the same year, Hye-sun also starred in the fantasy romance drama The Legend of the Blue Sea, working together with A-list Korean actors Jun Ji-hyun and Lee Min-ho in the lead roles.
In the year 2017, Hye-sun then played her first leading film role in A Day. The actress also played a key figure in the crime thriller series Stranger. Very soon, the actress was cast in a protagonist role for the first time.
It was for the KBS2’s drama My Golden Life. Hye-sun received a lot of love calls from the advertising industry and producers of movies and dramas.
2018 – Present
Caption: Hye-sun captured in a scene from the drama ‘Mr.Queen’. Source: Soompi
Then in 2018, Shin Hye-sun starred in the drama special The Hymn of Death. She played the role of the character Yun Sim-deok.
The actress also starred in the romance comedy drama Still 17, working alongside actors Yang Se-jong and Ahn Hyo-seop in the lead roles. Later the same year, Hye-sun also appeared in the legal film Innocence.
Similarly, in 2019, she starred in the fantasy romance drama Angel’s Last Mission: Love. For this project, the actress worked together with popular personalities including Kim Myung-soo (L), Lee Dong-gun, Kim Bo-mi, Do Ji-won, and Kim In-Kwon among others.
While writing this biography, the actress is still appearing in the role of Queen Kim So-yong (Queen Cheorin). It is the character of the 2020/2021 TV drama Mr. Queen. Before this, Hye-sun also played the role of Curator Yoon in the 2020 film Collectors.
Shin Hye-sun – Social Media
Talking about her social media presence, she is available on Instagram under the username @shinhs831. While writing this biography, Hye-sun shared exactly 132 posts and garnered more than 1.6 million followers.
Other than this, the actress doesn’t seem to have personal accounts on other platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, etc.