--- name: "Jeon Jong-seo" canonical: "https://film.one/person/jeon-jong-seo" fi1m_id: "jeon-jong-seo" imdb_id: "nm9311474" tmdb_id: 1937533 wikidata_id: "Q52159701" roles: ["Actor"] born: "5 July 1994" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-18T00:01:57.633177+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." --- # Jeon Jong-seo ## Identity Jeon Jong-seo - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jeon-jong-seo - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** jeon-jong-seo - **IMDb ID:** nm9311474 - **TMDB ID:** 1937533 - **Wikidata ID:** Q52159701 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeon_Jong-seo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52159701, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9311474/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1937533 Actor. Born 5 July 1994 in Seoul, South Korea. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 5 July 1994, Seoul, South Korea - **Also known as:** 전종서, Rachel Jun, 全鐘瑞, 全钟瑞, جون جونگ سئو, جونگ سئو جون - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeon_Jong-seo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52159701, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9311474/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1937533 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Burning*](https://film.one/film/burning.md) (86) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Jeon Jong-seo > Jeon Jong-seo brings feeling and playfulness to women who might otherwise remain puzzles. We rate her highly for *Burning*, and would be wary of any role that asks her to be strange and leaves the rest to her. In *Burning* (2018), Jeon Jong-seo gives Hae-mi enough feeling and unpredictability to make the men watching her seem inattentive, despite their interest. They want her, but wanting does not make them good judges of her. We found their attention unsettling because Jeon makes it seem so inadequate to the woman in front of them. She gives us reason to care about Hae-mi beyond the question of what she means to either man. This was her debut, directed by Lee Chang-dong, and the part asks for more than an air of mystery. The screenplay by Lee and Oh Jung-mi makes Jong-su’s longing hard to separate from his resentment of Ben’s advantages. Jeon has to make Hae-mi matter in a story so occupied by what the men want. She does it without making her an answer to either man’s problems. The subsequent roles take her further into genre films. She plays the antagonist Young-sook in *The Call* (2020), then takes the lead in Ana Lily Amirpour’s English-language fantasy *Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon* (2021). *Ballerina* (2023), an action-revenge film, reunites her with *The Call* director Lee Chung-hyun. These are sensible uses of an actor whose playfulness can carry a threat, though we would not want threat to become all that casting directors see in her. The risk is that scripts use her expressive eyes and spontaneous physicality as a reason not to write the character properly. A woman can remain obscure to the men around her without being obscure to us, and *Burning* gets that distinction largely right. Its uncertainty occasionally feels prolonged, but the three leads give us enough to watch in their small differences in confidence and desire. Start there, provided a patient thriller is what the evening needs. ## Biography Jeon Jong-seo (born 5 July 1994) is a South Korean actress. She made her acting debut in the leading role of Shin Hae-mi in the 2018 psychological thriller film *Burning*, directed by Lee Chang-dong. She next starred in *The Call* (2020), for which she won the Baeksang Arts Award for Best Actress. Her other credits include the English-language film *Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon* (2021), the Netflix series *Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area* (2022) as Tokyo, and *Ballerina* (2023). Jeon attended Anyang Arts High School and studied film at Sejong University before leaving to pursue acting. She joined a management agency in 2017 and secured the lead role in *Burning* at her first audition. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Burning* (2018), Fi1m 86, as Shin Hae-mi — [page](https://film.one/film/burning.md) ## Complete filmography (15) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Project Y* (2026), as Lee Do-kyung - *Queen Woo* (2024), series, as Queen Woo / Woo Hee - *Wedding Impossible* (2024), series, as Na Ah-jeong - *Ballerina* (2023), as Jang Ok-joo - *Bargain part.1* (2023), as Park Ju-young - *Bargain part.2* (2023), as Park Ju-young - *Bargain* (2022), series, as Park Ju-young - *Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon* (2022), as Mona Lisa Lee - *Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area* (2022), series, as Tokyo - *Nothing Serious* (2021), as Ja-young - *The Call* (2020), as Young-sook - *Burning* (2018), as Shin Hae-mi — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/burning.md) - *Highlander*, as Aris - *Stoneborn*, as Hee-jin - *Dochabi*, as Ahai ## Gallery - ![Jeon Jong-seo](https://film.one/media/person/128414/gallery-58ba03f4e461.jpg) Jeon Jong-seo — 티비텐, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/%EC%A0%84%EC%A2%85%EC%84%9C_20231207-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![festival de Cannes (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/128414/gallery-abf9a54bfdb6.jpg) festival de Cannes (2018) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Cannes_2018_23.jpg/1280px-Cannes_2018_23.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![festival de Cannes (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/128414/gallery-c31751e57310.jpg) festival de Cannes (2018) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cannes_2018_23_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Cannes_2018_23_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jeon Jong-seo, actor, at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Project Y.](https://film.one/media/person/128414/gallery-76571ab87c6d.jpg) Jeon Jong-seo, actor, at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Project Y. — Desmond Herzfelder, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Jeon_Jong-seo_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Jeon_Jong-seo_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jeon Jong-seo](https://film.one/media/person/128414/gallery-fcdfe7c256ef.jpg) Jeon Jong-seo — Image via TMDB - ![Jeon Jong-seo](https://film.one/media/person/128414/gallery-3219a15c2010.jpg) Jeon Jong-seo — Image via TMDB - ![Jeon Jong-seo](https://film.one/media/person/128414/gallery-d9c10df21b1d.jpg) Jeon Jong-seo — Image via TMDB - ![Jeon Jong-seo, actor, at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Project Y.](https://film.one/media/person/128414/gallery-d826b6bbcaf6.jpg) Jeon Jong-seo, actor, at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Project Y. — Desmond Herzfelder, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Jeon_Jong-seo_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Jeon_Jong-seo_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jun Jongseo TIRTIR PhotoCall (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/128414/gallery-6d7125d6b1c8.png) Jun Jongseo TIRTIR PhotoCall (2025) — K-POPIT 케이팝잇, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Jeon_Jong-seo_in_May_2025.png/1280px-Jeon_Jong-seo_in_May_2025.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jeon Jong-seo](https://film.one/media/person/128414/gallery-23c69ee35597.jpg) Jeon Jong-seo — Image via TMDB - ![Jeon Jong-seo](https://film.one/media/person/128414/gallery-16802d2dd837.jpg) Jeon Jong-seo — Image via TMDB - ![Jeon Jong-seo](https://film.one/media/person/128414/gallery-a781ae97fc86.jpg) Jeon Jong-seo — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 3 won - Buil Film Awards 2021: Buil Film Awards (won), for *The Call* - Director's Cut Awards 2021: Director's Cut Awards (won), for *The Call* - Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actress - Film 2020: Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actress - Film (won), for *The Call* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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