Almost every talented actor has a biography full of hardships and misfortunes. Lee Min Ho, a famous South Korean actor, is no exception in this regard. He was born in Seoul on June 22, 1987, he also has an older sister, who from childhood helped him cope with all difficulties.
The first steps
While still a high school student, Lee thought about becoming a professional actor. In high school, he worked as a model, and his pictures were repeatedly published in glossy magazines, however, after he met his first manager, Min Ho seriously thought about going to the cinema.
Lee Min Ho, whose biography is known today to all Korean film lovers, after graduation, became a student at Konkuk University, where he studied theater art for several years . As a freshman, he began to attend auditions in the hope of getting at least a small role in the movie.
He was unlucky for a long time, the producers did not want to see a talented actor in him. A few months later, Lee got a role in the drama “Secrets of the Schoolyard”. It was there that he met Park Bo Young, an actress who became his best friend. Min Ho got into the role so much that even during the filming of battle scenes he fought seriously and once broke his finger.
Through thorns to a dream
Lee Min Ho's creative biography began to fill up, the actor began to receive new offers from producers. However, he got into a serious car accident and could not be removed for a year and a half. For Min Ho, this was a real tragedy, because he was supposed to star in the films Love Like Baseball and The Expendable Kick.
The very first film in which Lee starred after the accident was the series “Forward, Mackerel, Forward!”. He first got the main role, so he tried his best. Thanks to this particular series, the producers realized what actor Lee Min Ho was like. The biography of the young talent made a sharp turn.
Lee Min Ho and Our English Teacher
In 2007, a talented actor got a role in the project "Our English Teacher", and coped with it brilliantly. The following year became even more profitable for the projects: “Get up!”, “Enemy of society-3: Return”, “I am a teacher”, all these projects helped Lee Min Ho improve his skills as a drama actor.
In 2009, Lee took part in the filming of "Flowers after Berries" and did not fail, it was this picture that turned him into a star. To shoot in the picture, he needed to get a driver’s license, and he was forced to do it as soon as possible. Lee Min Ho's biography is full of strange and inexplicable events, so, on the set of this film, he unexpectedly crashed into a fence while driving a car.
In his interviews, the actor admitted that after the film “Flowers after Berries,” he received more than 30 scripts, of which he chose the film “Personal Preferences”. Lee admitted that he had not laughed at reading the script for a long time, which is why his choice fell on this picture. The film was quite a big success, and the actor was even presented for the award.
The biography of Lee Min Ho is not yet completed, the actor continues to actively act in films. In 2013, the youth drama “The Heirs” was released, where he played a bright and young character and worked with the famous screenwriter Kim Eun-suk. In the same year, he began his career as a musician and released a small album, with which he gave about 10 concerts in the cities of South Korea.