Actor

Park Hae-soo

Acting

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Large and steady acting portfolio.

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1.4

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Movies: 13Series: 25

TMDB ID: 1593672

IMDb ID: nm7676537

Known for: Acting

Born: November 21, 1981

Age: 44

Place of birth: Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2012 - 2026

Years active: 15

Average TMDB rating: 7.22

Wikidata: Q18732317

Also known as

Hae-soo Park • پارک هه سو • پارک هائه سو • Пак Хэ-су

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Biography

Park Hae-soo (born November 21, 1981) is a South Korean actor. He is best known worldwide for portraying Cho Sang-woo in the first season of the Netflix hit series Squid Game (2021), which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Park started his career in theater and has played a large number of leading and supporting roles in plays and musicals. He subsequently expanded his career into film and television and achieved his breakthrough with Prison Playbook (2017–2018), one of the highest-rated Korean dramas on cable television. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with Netflix, including Narco-Saints (2022), Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area (2022), Karma (2025), The Price of Confession (2025), and The Great Flood (2025).