Singer and actress Suzy succeeded in transforming her image by playing the role of Anna/Yumi in the Coupang drama “Anna.”
Starting with a small lie, Anna (Yumi) gradually comes to live a completely different life. She is a wicked woman who deceives others and lives a life marked with lies, but she is an interesting character who others might sympathize with.
Suzy was praised for giving off a new charm that was completely different from her old image in this drama.
In an interview with X-Sports News in 2013, Suzy shyly said, “My next goal is to become the nation’s female villain.”
And she has been able to portray various roles, from the people’s first love to the nation’s female villain. Let’s look back on Suzy’s past and present acting filmography.
Suzy debuted as a member of Miss A in 2010 and entered the path of becoming an actress with the KBS 2TV drama “Dream High” in 2011.
In the drama, she played the role of Ko Hye-mi, a feisty and arrogant girl who entered Kirin Arts High School to become a popular singer due to her father’s business failure.
There was controversy over her acting skills due to her expressionless eye acting and constant blank tone when delivering lines, but she improved as each episode went by.
“There was a controversy over my acting skills during ‘Dream High’. I was criticized a lot at that time. So I was shocked and hurt a lot,” Suzy shared in the variety show ‘Happy Together’ in 2015.
She won the Best New Female Artist award at the KBS Drama Awards and won the Best Couple trophy with Kim Soo-hyun.
She has also made her way to the big screen. In the movie “Architecture 101,” in which she worked with Lee Je-hoon, Suzy transformed into Seo-yeon, a first-year university student full of innocence and freshness.
Even though she was born in 1994, she expressed the emotions of a first year student in 1996 perfectly. The movie attracted more than 4 million viewers and Suzy became the nation’s first love.
She won the 48th Baeksang Arts Awards for Best New Actress in the Film category and the 33rd Blue Dragon Film Awards for Best Popular Star.
In the same year, the drama “Big” (2021), in which Suzy worked with Gong Yoo and Lee Min-jung, helped her take off her innocent image. She plays Jang Mary, a girl who has a passionate crush on Kang Kyung-joon (Shin Won-ho), who switched souls with Seo Yoon-jae (Gong Yoo).
In the 2013 drama “Gu Family Book,” Suzy played Dam Yeo-wool, a girl who trusted and loved Choi Kang-chi (Lee Seung-ki), a half-man-half-fox.
Suzy tried the historical drama for the first time and showed her acting skills through romance and action scenes.
She won the Best Actress Award and Best Couple Award in the mini-series section at the MBC Drama Awards.
Three years after “Architecture 101,” she returned to the big screen with the movie “The Sound of a Flower” (2015).
She played Jin Chae-seon, the first female singer of the Joseon Dynasty in 1867, when women were not allowed to sing Korean traditional music Pansori.
In addition to acting in dialect and male disguise, Suzy performed as a pansori singer after practicing for nearly a year before filming. The movie failed in box office, but it was a chance for Suzy to grow into an actress.
In the 2016 drama “Uncontrollably Fond,” she played the role of snobbish documentary producer Noel. The drama depicts circumstances lead to the separation of two childhood sweethearts, Suzy and Kim Woo Bin. Years later, fate decides to bring them closer when they work on a documentary.
In the 2017 drama “While You Were Sleeping,” she played the role of Nam Hong-joo, who can dream of an unfortunate incident that will happen to someone. Having cut his long hair for the first time since her debut, she showed off his improved acting skills as well as her amazing chemistry with Lee Jong-suk.
Thanks to this work, she won the Best Actress Award in the SBS Drama Awards and together with Lee Jong-suk, she won the Best Couple Award.
In the drama ‘Vagabond’ (2019) she reunited with Lee Seung-gi as Go Hae-ri, a black agent of the National Intelligence Service. She was dispatched to an overseas camouflage infiltration investigation, met Dalgun (Lee Seung-gi), and showed off her various charms through the process of digging up huge irregularities.
In the movie ‘Baekdu Mountain’ (2019), she worked with veteran actors such as Lee Byung-hun, Ha Jung-woo, Ma Dong-seok, and Jeon Hye-jin. She played the role of Choi Ji-young, who struggles to survive in the midst of the last eruption of Mt. Baekdu.
Suzy also joined the 2020 drama “Startup,” which starring Nam Joo-hyuk and Kim Seon-ho. Suzy played the role of Seo Dal Mi, who has dreams of becoming Korea’s own Steve Jobs. She played a soft but confident character who pioneered her future without difficulty.
Suzy recently got her character of a lifetime in the drama ‘Anna’. She plays Yumi and Anna, who live a life full of lies. “I can do whatever I want,” her character – Yumi said.
From her high school days, when she was a model student but got into trouble by dating her teacher, to a fake college student, and then her life after marriage, she has revealed everything about Anna.
Even when Yumi knew she could get a prison sentence, she said, ‘Don’t worry. I survive on my own,’. She then lived by lying that she was a Chinese for the rest of her life.
Suzy’s performance left the public impressed by the character Yumi, who doesn’t give in easily even when she’s in a situation of losing everything.
In an interview with Xports News in 2013, at the time when Suzy emerged as the nation’s first love through the movie ‘Architecture 101’ (2012), she said, “I want to try the role of a villain once. Attractive isn’t it? I think it would be fun. I can live a different life than mine”.
When asked directly if it was okay to lose the image of the nation’s first love, she hesitated for a moment, but smiled shyly, “A national villain?”
With such mature acting after 9 years since her debut, Suzy has taken a significant step forward by transforming into a villain in a perfect way as if she were wearing a tailored suit.
Following the success of Anna, Suzy’s activities don’t stop. The release of director Kim Tae-yong’s movie ‘Wonderland’ and the release of Netflix’s ‘Iduna!’ are also ahead. Therefore, expectations are high for another charm that Suzy will show in the near future.
Source: nate
