Career
Unsure which college course to take, Uhm Tae-woong initially joined the theater department because his crush was there. But even after the girl shifted majors, Uhm stayed after having befriended a fellow student who would become his current manager, and began acting in earnest.
After many years as a struggling actor, Uhm received positive notices playing a dying man in the acclaimed Drama City episode Blue Skies of Jeju Island. This led to his well-received turn as a villain in the romantic comedy Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang. His memorable lead performances in the noir dramas Resurrection and The Devil, in which he expressed a soul conflicted between the good and bad, between sin and punishment, increased his popularity and he gained the nickname "the Uhm force" among fans.
No longer known as simply singer-actress Uhm Jung-hwa's kid brother, he began building an impressive acting resume. His roles have all displayed his acting prowess and versatility: an irresponsible young man who falls in love with a woman twenty years his senior in Family Ties, a cold elite coach for the National Women's Handball Team in Forever the Moment, a celebrity manager who is driven to the extremes in Handphone, a newly married Korean soldier conscripted during the Vietnam War in Sunny, a policeman battling with a mutant boar in Chaw, Silla general Kim Yushin in Queen Seondeok, a cranky sports medicine doctor in Dr. Champ, a theater actor-turned-dating coach in Cyrano Agency, one half of a quirky terminally ill couple in Never Ending Story, an architect building his first love's house in Architecture 101, and a blind revenge seeker in Man from the Equator.
In 2011 he joined the hit reality show 1 Night 2 Days, showing audiences the dorky personality behind his intense screen persona.
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