Lee Byung-hun is a South Korean actor. He has received praise for his work in a wide range of genres, most notably
Joint Security Area (2000);
A Bittersweet Life (2005);
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008);
I Saw the Devil (2010);
Masquerade (2012); and the television series
Iris (2009) and
Mr. Sunshine (2018).
Inside Men (2015) won him the Best Actor prize at the three most prestigious South Korean award ceremonies: 52nd Baeksang Arts Awards, 37th Blue Dragon Film Awards and 53rd Grand Bell Awards. Lee has seven films—
Joint Security Area,
The Good, the Bad, the Weird,
Masquerade,
Inside Men,
Master,
Ashfall and
The Man Standing Next—on the list of the highest-grossing films in South Korea. Lee was Gallup Korea's Actor of the Year in the Film division in 2012 and in the Television division in 2018. In 2021, he appeared in a recurring role as the Front Man in the Netflix hit survival series
Squid Game.