--- name: "Gianna Jun" canonical: "https://film.one/person/gianna-jun" fi1m_id: "gianna-jun" imdb_id: "nm0432428" tmdb_id: 63436 wikidata_id: "Q253626" roles: ["Actor"] born: "30 October 1981" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 73 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-17T22:29:58.462336+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Gianna Jun ## Identity Gianna Jun - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gianna-jun - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** gianna-jun - **IMDb ID:** nm0432428 - **TMDB ID:** 63436 - **Wikidata ID:** Q253626 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun_Ji-hyun, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q253626, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432428/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/63436 Actor. Born 30 October 1981 in Seoul, South Korea. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 30 October 1981, Seoul, South Korea - **Active:** 2019–present - **Also known as:** Ji-Hyeon, Jun, Jun Jihyun, Gianna, Jihyun Jun, Jeon Ji-hyeon, Jeon Ji-hyun - **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 84 (1), 2020s 62 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun_Ji-hyun, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q253626, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432428/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/63436 ## Fi1m on Gianna Jun > Gianna Jun makes assertive women persuasive leads in romantic comedy and action. We rate her confidence, but *Colony* exposes the limits of familiar star presence when the script gives her too little character to work with. In *My Sassy Girl* (2001), Gianna Jun's assertive lead does not need to be conventionally agreeable to carry the film. That confidence remains a good reason to watch her. We rate an actor who can make an unconventional woman the centre of a romantic comedy, then look equally at home among capable people under threat. The reservation is what happens when a script expects that established presence to be enough. The breakthrough was followed by films including the Hollywood attempt *Blood: The Last Vampire* (2009). Her return to prominence took in *The Thieves* (2012), the television success *My Love from the Star* (2013) and *Assassination* (2015). As Ahn Ok-yun in the latter, she is an effective anchor for an action ensemble. Yet *Assassination* also illustrates the risk of relying on her established persona without developing the character enough. Being cast as a capable woman does not guarantee that she will have much else to play. *Colony* (2026), her return to feature films after eleven years, makes the problem harder to overlook. Jun plays Kwon Se-jeong in Yeon Sang-ho's zombie thriller, where the infected think together and have a more distinctive identity than the survivors. Yeon and Choi Gyu-seok leave too much of our concern for those people to the danger they face. We felt little attachment to Kwon because the film gave us so little character beyond her predicament. That is not entirely an excuse for the performance: Koo Kyo-hwan, playing the scientist Seo Young-cheol, makes the same film's human scenes less predictable. Jun does not find an equally useful way through the thin writing, and it would be indulgent to pretend otherwise. The action still earns attention, but it is a poor place to discover what makes her a distinctive lead. Start with *My Sassy Girl*; approach *Colony* for its thinking zombies, rather than in expectation of getting to know the people. ## Biography Gianna Jun, also credited as Jun Ji-hyun or Jun Jihyun, is a South Korean actress. She began her career as a fashion model in 1997 and made her acting debut in the late 1990s. She rose to prominence with the lead role in the romantic comedy *My Sassy Girl* (2001). Subsequent film credits include *Il Mare* (2000), *Windstruck* (2004), *The Thieves* (2012), *The Berlin File* (2013), *Assassination* (2015) and *Blood: The Last Vampire* (2009). Her television work includes *My Love from the Star* (2013), *The Legend of the Blue Sea* (2016) and *Kingdom* (2019). In 2026 she returned to feature films after more than a decade with the lead role of Kwon Se-jeong, a biotechnology professor, in the zombie thriller *Colony* directed by Yeon Sang-ho. The film premiered at Cannes and screened at the New York Asian Film Festival, where she received the Extraordinary Star Asia Award. *Sources: variety.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, koreajoongangdaily.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *Colony* (2026), Fi1m 62, as Kwon Se-jeong — [page](https://film.one/film/colony.md) - *Kingdom* (2019), Fi1m 84, as Ashin — [page](https://film.one/tv/kingdom.md) ## Complete filmography (23) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Colony* (2026), as Kwon Se-jeong — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/colony.md) - *Tempest* (2025), series, as Seo Munju - *Jirisan* (2021), series, as Seo Yi-gang - *Kingdom: Ashin of the North* (2021), as Ashin - *Kingdom* (2019), series, as Ashin — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/kingdom.md) - *The Legend of the Blue Sea* (2016), series, as Shim Cheong / Se-hwa - *Assassination* (2015), as Ahn Ok-yun - *My Love from the Star* (2013), series, as Chun Song-yi - *The Berlin File* (2013), as Ryun Jung-hee - *The Thieves* (2012), as Yenicall - *Snow Flower and the Secret Fan* (2011), as Snow Flower / Sophia - *Blood: The Last Vampire* (2009), as Saya - *A Man Who Was Superman* (2008), as Song Soo-jung - *Daisy* (2006), as Hye-young - *Windstruck* (2004), as Yeo Kyung-jin - *The Uninvited* (2003), as Yeon - *노란손수건* (2003), series, as 이유나 - *My Sassy Girl* (2001), as The Girl - *Il Mare* (2000), as Kim Eun-ju - *Happy Together* (1999), series, as Seo Yoon-joo - *White Valentine* (1999), as Jung-min - *Steal My Heart* (1998), series, as Ga-young - *Human X Gumiho*, series, as Goo Ja-hong ## Gallery - ![Gianna Jun](https://film.one/media/person/92497/gallery-3c4718cb6be6.jpg) Gianna Jun — Republic of Korea, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Jun_Ji-hyun.jpg/1280px-Jun_Ji-hyun.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![김미류기자] 전지현이 12일 오후 서울 중구 소공동 서울 웨스틴 조선호텔에서 열린 브랜드 행사에 참석했다. (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/92497/gallery-3548f6e46171.jpg) 김미류기자] 전지현이 12일 오후 서울 중구 소공동 서울 웨스틴 조선호텔에서 열린 브랜드 행사에 참석했다. (2019) — Dispatch, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/191112_%EC%A0%84%EC%A7%80%ED%98%84.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![​姜棟元與全智賢在《暴風圈》製作發布會上 (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/92497/gallery-f89cb245b4f9.png) ​姜棟元與全智賢在《暴風圈》製作發布會上 (2025) — 티비텐 TV10, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/20250902%E3%80%8ATempest%E3%80%8Bproduction_presentation.png/1280px-20250902%E3%80%8ATempest%E3%80%8Bproduction_presentation.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - !["Colony" cast at the presscon of the film (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/92497/gallery-46db1e59fdce.png) "Colony" cast at the presscon of the film (2026) — 티비텐 TV10, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/20260406_Colony_cast.png/1280px-20260406_Colony_cast.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gianna Jun](https://film.one/media/person/92497/gallery-f3fdfab5443d.jpg) Gianna Jun — Image via TMDB - ![Gianna Jun](https://film.one/media/person/92497/gallery-5840f2b75f32.jpg) Gianna Jun — Image via TMDB - ![Film 'Colony' Press conference (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/92497/gallery-81eefdfe7f12.jpg) Film 'Colony' Press conference (2026) — Republic of Korea, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Film_%27Colony%27_Press_conference.jpg/1280px-Film_%27Colony%27_Press_conference.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - Asian Film Award for Best Supporting Actress 2012: Asian Film Award for Best Supporting Actress (nominated), for *The Thieves* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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