Go Soo
South Korean actor (born 1978)
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::summary South Korean actor (born 1978) ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Go Soo |
| image | Go Soo 고수 - Marie Claire Korea in November 2023.jpg |
| caption | Go in 2023 |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Nonsan, South Korea |
| education | Sangmyung University |
| agent | BH Entertainment |
| occupation | Actor |
| years_active | Since 1998 |
| spouse | |
| children | 3 |
| module | {{Infobox Korean name/auto |
| hangul | %고수 |
| hanja | 高洙 |
| :: |
| name = Go Soo | image = Go Soo 고수 - Marie Claire Korea in November 2023.jpg | caption = Go in 2023 | birth_date = | birth_place = Nonsan, South Korea | nationality = | education = Sangmyung University | agent = BH Entertainment | occupation = Actor | years_active = Since 1998 | spouse = | children = 3 | module = {{Infobox Korean name/auto|child=yes|headercolor=transparent | hangul = %고수 | hanja = 高洙 Go Soo (; born October 4, 1978), also known as Ko Soo, is a South Korean actor. He has appeared in television series such as Piano, Green Rose and Will It Snow for Christmas?, as well as the films White Night and The Front Line.
Early life and education
Go was born and raised in Nonsan, South Korea as the youngest of 2 sons. He attended college in Sangmyung University, Cheonan campus, where he majored in Cinema degree.
Career
1998–2005: Debut and breakout fame
When Go Soo first came to Seoul, he acted on stage, but he lacked money that time. Since he lacked money, he decided to put his stage acting on hold for later and eventually stopped. From then on, he began presenting his profile photo to numerous agencies. Go first appeared in a soft drink TV commercial, followed by a role as an extra in the 1998 music video "Last Promise" by the band Position. He made his television debut in 1999 through the MBC sitcoms My Funky Family and Jump and KBS2 drama series Ad Madness. Go drew critical praise for his performance in the television drama Piano in 2001, with one review describing him as an "actor with precision".
Go made his big screen debut as a drug crime officer in 2004's Some, in which he performed his own stunts and was later recognized as Best New Actor at the Grand Bell Awards. Go reunited with Ad Madness co-star Park Ye-jin in TV series When A Man Loves A Woman in the same year. In 2005, he starred in the revenge drama Green Rose, which was shot on location in China and Korea. He played a simple man who falls in love with a rich woman and gets accused of a crime he did not commit. Then in the romantic comedy Marrying a Millionaire, Go played a delivery man who is asked by a TV producer to act like a rich bachelor to attract several women on a televised reality dating show.
Since 2009: Comeback
For his first post-army project, Go surprised fans by choosing a stage play. Invited to join the "Best Play Series" by veteran actor Cho Jae-hyun (Jo was his costar in Piano, and the senior colleague he "most respects"), Go made his theater debut as the lead actor in The Return of President Eom, which ran from May 23 to August 3, 2008.
In 2009, he starred in the dark mystery film White Night, based on the Japanese novel Byakuyakō by Keigo Higashino. Go said he was "completely absorbed by the intriguing storyline." Go then made his television comeback in the melodrama Will It Snow for Christmas?, a tale of rekindled childhood love penned by renowned TV writer Lee Kyung-hee. He described his character as "hurt by love and tries to overcome that pain."
His next film Haunters, in which he played the only man immune to a psychic's supernatural powers, was a box office hit in 2010. On May 13, 2011, he signed under the management of Lee Byung-hun known as BH Entertainment. He next played a soldier in the Korean War-set The Front Line, then a grieving firefighter in the 2012 romance drama Love 911. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/121025-비이커-론칭파티고수.jpg"] ::
Afterwards, he collaborated with the makers of The Chaser for Empire of Gold, a TV series about the power struggle within a rich family living through Korea's turbulent economy of the 1990s, produced by SBS; in this series, he played an antihero. Later that year, he starred in melodrama film Way Back Home, playing the devastated husband of a woman wrongfully accused of drug smuggling. Go said the reason he chose the film was because he wanted to work with acclaimed actress Jeon Do-yeon, and that through his character he "was able to tackle the challenge of internal and external change".
In 2014, Go appeared in two short films. Directed by Kang Je-gyu, Awaiting is about a married couple separated for sixty years by the division of North and South Korea. Awaiting was one of the four short films comprising Beautiful 2014, an omnibus project that premiered at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival. Meanwhile, Myohyangsangwan ("View of Myohyangsan"), which depicted the rendezvous of a South Korean painter and a North Korean waitress in a North Korean restaurant, is a collaboration by contemporary artists Moon Kyung-won and Jeon Joon-ho, and combined a theatrical plot, experimental imagery, dance and performance art. He then starred in the period film The Royal Tailor, in the role of an upstart new designer whose talent and instincts challenges the traditional master artisan of royal attire.
In June 2015, Go Soo has amicably parted ways with BH Entertainment, and joined a new agency named Yubon Company founded by his previous manager at BH Entertainment. He then returned to BH Entertainment in February 2017.
Go made his small screen comeback after three years in MBC's 55th-founding anniversary historical drama directed by a famed director Lee Byung-hoon, The Flower in Prison.
In 2017, Go starred in Lucid Dream, a psychological thriller in which Go played a former journalist who attempts to find his kidnapped son using lucid dreaming. The same year, Go starred in The Tooth and the Nail, a film based on the 1955 mystery novel by Bill S. Ballinger in which a magician discovers the incinerated teeth and fingernails of his missing butler. He next starred in period epic film The Fortress, where he worked with his manager Lee Byung-hun.
In 2018, Go was cast in the medical drama Heart Surgeons as a cardiothoracic surgery resident trying to save his mother in need of a heart transplant.
Personal life
Military service
Go began his two-year mandatory military service on March 2, 2006 and he was assigned as a Civil Service Personnel in Gangnam District, Seoul. He was discharged on April 25, 2008, and received recognition for being an outstanding Public Interest Service Personnel.
Marriage and family
Go began dating Kim Hye-yeon, an art student eleven years his junior, shortly after meeting her in 2008. The couple married on February 17, 2012 at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul. Their son was born on January 28, 2013, and their daughter was born on April 17, 2015. On September 13, 2017, his wife gave birth to their 3rd child.
Filmography
Film
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. | 2004 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2016 | 2017 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Some | Kang Sung-joo | |||||||||||||
| White Night | Kim Yo-han | |||||||||||||
| Haunters | Im Kyu-nam | |||||||||||||
| The Front Line | Kim Soo-hyuk | |||||||||||||
| Love 911 | Chun Kang-il | |||||||||||||
| Way Back Home | Kim Jong-bae | |||||||||||||
| Awaiting | Kim Min-woo | Short film | ||||||||||||
| View of Mount Myohyang | South Korean painter | Short film | ||||||||||||
| The Royal Tailor | Lee Gong-jin | |||||||||||||
| The Last Princess | Prince Lee Woo | Cameo | ||||||||||||
| Lucid Dream | Choi Dae-ho | |||||||||||||
| The Tooth and the Nail | Lee Suk-jin / Choi Seung-man | |||||||||||||
| The Fortress | Seo Nal-soi | |||||||||||||
| Bystanders | Jeong Ik-jeong | Web short film | ||||||||||||
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Television series
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2009 | 2013 | 2016 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2020–2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ad Madness | |||||||||||||||||||
| Jump | Go Soo | ||||||||||||||||||
| My Funky Family | |||||||||||||||||||
| Say It with Your Eyes | Jang Ki-ryong | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nonstop | Go Soo | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mom and Sister | Jang Kyung-bin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Piano | Han Jae-soo | ||||||||||||||||||
| Age of Innocence | Tae-suk | ||||||||||||||||||
| My Fair Lady | Shin Young-ho | ||||||||||||||||||
| When a Man Loves a Woman | Ji-hoon | ||||||||||||||||||
| Green Rose | Lee Jung-hyun / Jang Joong-won | ||||||||||||||||||
| Marrying a Millionaire | Kim Young-hoon | ||||||||||||||||||
| Will It Snow for Christmas? | Cha Kang-jin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Empire of Gold | Jang Tae-joo | ||||||||||||||||||
| Flowers of the Prison | Yoon Tae-won | ||||||||||||||||||
| Heart Surgeons | Park Tae-soo | ||||||||||||||||||
| Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency | Crown Prince | Cameo; Episode 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Money Game | Chae Yi-hun | ||||||||||||||||||
| Missing: The Other Side | Kim Wook | Season 1–2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Parole Examiner Lee | Lee Han-shin | ||||||||||||||||||
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Web shows
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday Night Live Korea | Host | Season 3 Episode 9 | |||
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Music video appearances
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| Year | Title | Artist | Ref. | 1998 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Last Promise" | Position | |||||||||
| "Pig Man" | Noise | |||||||||
| "Letter" | Position | |||||||||
| "U Got the Funk" | Lee Hyun-do (Deux) | |||||||||
| "I'll Be Back" | Yoo Seung-joon | |||||||||
| "Sadness" | Kang Hyung-rok | |||||||||
| "A Sad Gift" | Kim Jang-hoon | |||||||||
| "1:1" | Juju Club | |||||||||
| "I Still Bite My Lips" | Lee Soo-young | |||||||||
| "Left Alone" | ||||||||||
| "Confession" | Park Hye-kyung | |||||||||
| "Burying My Face in Tears" | Jang Na-ra | |||||||||
| "Distance" | Lee Seok-hoon | |||||||||
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Stage
Theatre
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| Year | Title | Role | Ref. | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Return of President Eom (돌아온 엄사장) | Eom Go-soo | |||
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Discography
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| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | I Will Be Happy | Poetry readings |
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Awards and nominations
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| Award ceremony | Year | Category | Nominee / Work | Result | Ref. | APAN Star Awards | Blue Dragon Film Awards | Golden Cinema Festival | Grand Bell Awards | Korea Best Dresser Swan Awards | MBC Drama Awards | Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival | SBS Drama Awards | Style Icon Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Top Excellence Award, Actor | Empire of Gold | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | Grand Prize (Daesang) | The Flower in Prison | ||||||||||||
| Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Serial Drama | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Serial Drama | Missing: The Other Side 2 | ||||||||||||
| Excellence Award, Actor in a Short Drama | O'PENing: Summer, Love Machine, Blues | |||||||||||||
| 2004 | Best New Actor | Some | ||||||||||||
| 2010 | Best New Actor | White Night | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | Popular Star Award | The Front Line | ||||||||||||
| Best Actor | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Best Actor | Way Back Home | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | Best New Actor | Some | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | Model Line – Popularity Award | Go Soo | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | Best New Actor | Mothers and Sisters | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Special Project Drama | Flowers of the Prison | ||||||||||||
| 2010 | Fantasia Award | White Night | ||||||||||||
| 2001 | New Star Award | Piano | ||||||||||||
| Popularity Award | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Excellence Award, Actor in a Drama Special | Age of Innocence | ||||||||||||
| Top 10 Stars | ||||||||||||||
| Top Excellence Award, Actor | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Excellence Award, Actor in a Drama Special | My Fair Lady | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | Excellence Award, Actor in a Special Planning Drama | Green Rose | ||||||||||||
| Top 10 Stars | Green Rose / Marrying a Millionaire | |||||||||||||
| Top Excellence Award, Actor | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Drama Special | Empire of Gold | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Wednesday-Thursday Drama | Heart Surgeons | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | Top 10 Style Icons | Go Soo | ||||||||||||
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Listicles
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| Publisher | Year | Listicle | Placement | Ref. | Korean Film Council |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Korean Actors 200 | ||||
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Notes
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