Biography
Park Chul-min (also credited as Park Cheol-min or 박철민) is a South Korean actor born on 18 January 1967 in Gwangju, South Korea. He began acting in his high school drama club and continued in theatre while studying business administration at Chung-Ang University. After graduating in 1988 he joined the professional troupe Hyunjang and performed for several years on Daehakro.
He gained wider attention after 2004 with roles in the film Mokpo, Gangster's Paradise and the drama Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin. Park has since become a prolific supporting actor in Korean cinema and television, appearing in films including May 18 (2007), Always (2011), The Tower (2012), The Pirates (2014), The Villainess (2017) as Sook-hee's father, and Sweet & Sour (2021). He took his first major leading role in the 2014 crowdfunded film Another Promise.
