Kim Ji-eun
Kim Ji-eun is a South Korean actress. She first became recognized through the 2021 television series The Veil.
Early life
Kim Ji-eun was born in Incheon, South Korea on October 9, 1993. Before she started acting, she enrolled inDepartment of Theater course at Cheongju University.
Career
2016: Beginnings
Kim officially began to work in the entertainment industry as a commercial model for Bacchus-F in 2016. In order to attract the attention of actors management agencies, Kim participated in some music videos filming, worked as crew member, and did independent auditions.2019–present: Mainstream debut and rising popularity
Kim's first casting after she signed to her first agency HB Entertainment, was a 2019 film Long Live the King. In the same year, she played her first major role in OCN's crime suspense series Hell Is Other People.In 2021, Kim gained recognition with her role as a NIS agent who joined the bureau due to a personal agenda in MBC's espionage thriller The Veil.
Shortly after The Veil, Kim acted as the female lead for the first time in the 2022 SBS action fantasy Again My Life, as the only daughter of a conglomerate who got embroiled in the battle of succession. In the same year, she portrayed a legal trainee coming from a prestigious family of law practitioners in another series by SBS, the legal comedy One Dollar Lawyer.
Kim reunited with the director of Again My Life in 2023 ENA's mystery-thriller Longing for You as a violent crime prosecutor. She then focused on hosting and variety shows for a while, having appeared on Inkigayo, the 2023 SBS Entertainment Awards, Neighborhood Cool House, Nineteen to Twenty. Kim ranked at 13th place in the annual Forbes Korea Power Celebrity 40 in 2023, the second highest ranking for actresses in the list after Park Eun-bin.
In 2024, Kim came back to acting with three series: workplace fantasy thriller web series Branding in Seongsu as the company's youngest marketing team leader, tvN's slice of life romance Love Next Door as a passionate paramedic, and Channel A's historical romance Check-in Hanyang as a cross-dressing girl working as an intern at the biggest guest house in the Kingdom.
In November 2024, Kim signed with the new agency Namoo Actors.