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The following year she again found fame in Im Sang-soo's third film
A Good Lawyer's Wife. A 180-degree turn from her previous screen image, this film featured her as a free thinking woman in a decaying marriage who starts an affair with the teenage boy next door. This film was also invited to the Venice Film Festival, and she later won a Best Actress award from the Stockholm International Film Festival.
In 2004, Moon starred opposite Song Kang-ho in
The President's Barber, a film that illustrates 20 years of modern Korean history through the eyes of president Park Chung-hee's personal barber. She took a more central role in her next feature
Sa-kwa (2005), about a woman who embarks on a new relationship after being dumped by her long-time boyfriend. Also from 2005,
Bravo, My Life! sees her return to the historical era of the late 70s/early 80s in a family drama set against the political upheaval of those times.
In 2006, she played a sexually promiscuous professor in
Bewitching Attraction, as well as a disapproving sister in the critically-acclaimed
Family Ties (for which she shared Best Actress honors with three castmates at the 2006 Thessaloniki Film Festival, where their film also swept Best Picture and Best Screenplay). Moon then starred in her first ever TV series, the big-budget fusion historical drama
The Legend in 2007. She followed that with the sports movie
Forever the Moment (a surprise hit in 2008), and another TV drama, this time about a family of siblings. Her latest film is the human rights-themed
Fly, Penguin.
After graduating with a degree in Education from Sungkyunkwan University, Moon became part of the theater group
Hangang from 1995 to 1997, and debuted in the play
Classroom Idea (she also collaborated in its creation). She has always expressed a desire to return to her stage roots, and did so in 2006 in
Sad Play (Sulpun Yonguk).
TV Series
2008 - My Life's Golden Age (MBC)
2007 - The Legend (MBC)
Movies
2008 - Forever the Moment
2006 - The Birth of a Family
2006 - Bewitching Attraction
2005 - Bravo, My Life!
2005 - Sa-Kwa
2003 - The President's Barber
2003 - A Good Lawyer's Wife
2002 - Oasis
1999 - Peppermint Candy
2008 MBC Drama Awards - Best Actress <Excellence> (The Golden Age of My Life)
2006 Thessaloniki Film Festival - Best Actress (Family Ties)
2004 Grand Bell Awards - Best Actress (A Good Lawyer's Wife)
2003 Women in Film Korea Awards - Best Actress
2003 Korean Film Awards - Best Actress (A Good Lawyer's Wife)
2003 Chunsa Film Art Awards - Best Actress (A Good Lawyer's Wife)
2003 Pusan Film Critics Awards - Best Actress (A Good Lawyer's Wife)
2003 Stockholm International Film Festival - Best Actress (A Good Lawyer's Wife)
2003 Seattle International Film Festival - Best Actress (Oasis)
2002 Okgwan Cultural Medal in Film Development
2002 Director's Cut Awards - Best New Actress (Oasis)
2002 Korean Film Awards - Best Actress, Best New Actress (Oasis)
2002 Korean Critics Association (Critics Choice) Awards - Best Actress (Oasis)
2002 Chunsa Film Art Awards - Best Actress (Oasis)
2002 Blue Dragon Film Awards - Best New Actress (Oasis)
2002 Venice Film Festival - Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Actor or Actress (Oasis)
