Lee Jong-suk
South Korean model and actor
Lee Jong-suk (Korean: 이종석, born 14 September 1989) is a South Korean actor and model. He debuted in 2005 as a runway model and gained recognition as an actor with television series School 2013 (2012) and I Can Hear Your Voice (2013). He received further prominence with dramas Doctor Stranger (2014), Pinocchio (2014), W (2016), While You Were Sleeping (2017), and Big Mouth (2022).
Education
Lee majored in Professional Motion Pictures and Art at Konkuk University and graduated from the university in 2016.
Career
2005–2010: Beginnings
At 15, Lee began his modelling career at the Seoul Collection walkway in 2005, making him the youngest male model to debut in the Seoul Collection program at Seoul Fashion Week. Since then, he has walked in a number of fashion shows. Lee trained as an idol group member for three months, and had signed on with an agency to debut. However, he quit after the agency broke their promise of debuting him as an actor. He took part in a selection for actors at SBS TV station when he was in middle school. In 2010, Lee made his official acting debut in the South Korean TV series Prosecutor Princess.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q486582. VIAF identifies the subject as 17152199194614280467. The Library of Congress control number is no2019023554. 1 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 2005, 2013 and 2012.
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