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Doona Bae (Korean pronunciation: [bɛduna]) was born October 11, 1979, in Seoul, South Korea. She is a South Korean actress and photographer. Bae first became known outside Korea for her roles as archer Park Nam-joo in Bong Joon-ho's The Host (2006), and as an inflatable sex doll-come-to-life in Hirokazu Koreeda's Air Doll (2009).

She then had English-speaking roles in various works of The Wachowskis, including the films Cloud Atlas (2012), Jupiter Ascending (2015), and the TV series Sense8 (2015).

Early Life[]

Growing up, Bae would follow her mother, Kim Hwa-Young, a famous stage actress in Korea, around the theater and rehearsal halls, learning lines of dialogue as she went along. This did not initially lead Bae towards acting. She states, "People might say that since my mother is a theater actor, I became an actress. But to me, those experiences probably had the opposite effect. On the contrary, because I saw many great actors working with my mother, I thought this was a job only people with extraordinary talent could do."[1]

Career[]

A Hanyang University student in 1998, Bae was scouted by a model talent agency while walking in Seoul. This led to modeling clothing for COOLDOG's catalog, amongst others. In 1999 she made the switch to acting, debuting in the TV drama School. Later that year, she appeared as the ghost in The Ring Virus, a Korean remake of the Japanese horror film Ring.

Bae made her English-language, Hollywood debut in Cloud Atlas, as Sonmi~451, a clone in dystopian Korea. She also played the minor roles of Tilda Ewing, the wife of an abolitionist in pre-Civil War America, and a Mexican woman who crosses paths with an assassin. Co-directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, the US$100 million adaptation of David Mitchell's novel premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival to divisive reviews, though Bae's performance was unanimously praised by critics.

Back in Korea, Bae next starred in the 2014 film Dohee-ya (released internationally as A Girl at My Door), directed by July Jung and produced by Lee Chang-dong.[49] Playing a small-town police officer who tries to save a mysterious young girl she suspects is a victim of domestic violence, Bae said she was so fascinated by the story and emotionally challenging role that she decided to star in the movie without pay three hours after reading the script.[50][51] The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival,[52] and Bae later won Best Actress at the Asian Film Awards.

In 2015, she reteamed with the Wachowskis for their space opera Jupiter Ascending, in which she played a small supporting role as a bounty hunter. This was followed by Sense8, an American science fiction series created by the Wachowskis (in Bae's third collaboration with them) and co-written by J. Michael Straczynski.

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Season One Cast & Crew
Main Cast Freema AgyemanAml AmeenNaveen AndrewsDoona BaeJamie ClaytonTina DesaiDaryl HannahAnupam KherTerrence MannTuppence MiddletonMax RiemeltMiguel SilvestreBrian J. Smith
Recurring Cast Sylvester GrothAlfonso HerreraEréndira IbarraDarshan JariwalaPurab KohliKi-Chan LeeKyeong-yeong LeeMax MauffMax EwaltChristian OliverJoe Pantoliano
Crew Members J. Michael StraczynskiLilly & Lana Wachowski
Season Two Cast & Crew
Main Cast Freema AgyemanNaveen AndrewsDoona BaeJamie ClaytonTina DesaiDaryl HannahAnupam KherTerrence MannTuppence MiddletonToby OnwumereMax RiemeltMiguel SilvestreBrian J. Smith
Recurring Cast Alfonso HerreraEréndira IbarraDarshan JariwalaPurab KohliKi-Chan LeeKyeong-yeong LeeMax MauffMax EwaltJoe PantolianoSukku Son
Crew Members J. Michael StraczynskiLana Wachowski
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