Kim Tae-ri

Kim Tae-ri (; born April 24, 1990) is a South Korean actress. She is known for starring in the films The Handmaiden (2016), Little Forest (2018), and Space Sweepers (2020), as well as the television series Mr. Sunshine (2018), Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022), and Revenant (2023). Her role in Twenty-Five Twenty-One won her the Best Actress Award for Television at the 58th Baeksang Arts Awards. Early life Kim Tae-ri was born on April 24, 1990, in Seoul. After graduating from , Kim studied Journalism and Communication at Kyung Hee University from 2008 to 2012. Kim was inspired to become an actress in her second year of college after joining a college theater club. Career 2012–2015: Early career After graduating from college, Kim worked for a year as a member of the technical crew of Iru theatre troupe in Daehakro. Later, Kim was cast as a understudy for in the 2012 production of Spoonface Steinberg but did not get to perform on stage. She subsequently acted in the plays Pansy and Ask for Love, and was double-cast for the rerun of Spoonface Steinberg in 2013. In the same year, she filmed Moon Young, a short film which debuted at the Seoul Independent Film Festival in 2015; a theatrical version was released in 2017. In 2014, Kim joined J-Wide Company and appeared in a number of TV commercials. During this period, she acted in several short films and attended many auditions for film roles but faced multiple rejections.