Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5802
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ahn Seong-bong works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ahn Seong-bong appears in 26 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ahn. Parasite is the clearest case: a film rated 9.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kim Seong-hun, Park Chan-wook, Yoon Sung-hyun and others, Ahn Seong-bong helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Parasite (2019) as Street Man · Parasite (2019) as Street Man · The Handmaiden (2016) as Harbor Ticket Office Ronin
Career snapshot
Ranked #5802 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
26
2016–2025
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.4
Parasite
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
Parasite
Most frequent director
Park Chan-wook
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Park Chan-wook
Most common genre
Action
19 titles
Average runtime
2h 6m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.9
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
7.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Parasite, Parasite, Extreme Job — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.5
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
4 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Parasite, Parasite, Extreme Job.
Most productive era
2020s
15 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.96 films | 6.88 films |
| Action | 7.07 films | 6.912 films |
| Thriller | 7.76 films | 7.010 films |
| Comedy | 8.14 films | 6.83 films |
| Crime | 7.05 films | 7.04 films |
| Romance | 8.11 film | 7.31 film |
| Horror | — | 6.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016The Handmaiden
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Harbor Ticket Office Ronin.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Parasite
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025Mantis
The current state of the argument, as M.K Information Desk Staff.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
26 of 26 films
as Street Man
Directed by Bong Joon-ho
as Street Man
Directed by Bong Joon Ho
as Harbor Ticket Office Ronin
Directed by Park Chan-wook
as Court Security Guard
Directed by Unknown
as Ko Eun-tae
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 27 titles · 27 total credits · active 2016–2025
Mantis
2025 · M.K Information Desk Staff
The Roundup: Punishment
2024 · Jason
Badland Hunters
2024 · Director Oh
Project Silence
2024 · Staff Sergeant Ahn
Uprising
2024 · Aoki
Chicken Nugget
2024 · TV · Baek-joong's man
12.12: The Day
2023 · Ko Eun-tae
Kill Boksoon
2023 · M.K Information Desk Staff
Noryang: Deadly Sea
2023 · Gwon Jun
Ransomed
2023 · Driver
Decision to Leave
2022 · Go-bin
Hansan: Rising Dragon
2022 · Gwon Jun
The Night Owl
2022 · Envoy of Qing Dynasty
The Silent Sea
2021 · TV · Soldier
Secret Zoo
2020 · Bodyguard at Chinese Restaurant
Time to Hunt
2020 · Bong-soo's man
Hitman: Agent Jun
2020 · Agent
Parasite
2019 · Street Man
Extreme Job
2019 · Lee Moo-bae's gang member 2
Miss & Mrs. Cops
2019 · Big Man
The Beast
2019 · Backup Detective
Innocent Witness
2019 · Court Security Guard
Hit-and-Run Squad
2019 · Man in Suit
Believer
2018 · Brian's Entourage
The defining work
#1
Street Man
Parasite (2019)
Performance score9.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Street Man gives Ahn Seong-bong a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Street Man
Parasite (2019)
Performance score8.4
Parasite asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Street Man is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Harbor Ticket Office Ronin
The Handmaiden (2016)
Performance score7.8
The Handmaiden asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harbor Ticket Office Ronin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Court Security Guard
Innocent Witness (2019)
Performance score7.6
Innocent Witness asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Court Security Guard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Street Man
Start here. Parasite is the clearest statement of what Ahn Seong-bong does — accessible, 132 minutes, and rated 9.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ahn at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Handmaiden (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Parasite but asks for a colder reading of it.
Parasite (2019)
Keeps the drama register of The Handmaiden but asks for a colder reading of it.
Innocent Witness (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Parasite but asks for a colder reading of it.
12.12: The Day (2023)
Same director as Innocent Witness, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Bong Joon Ho
Director
2 films together
Notably Parasite
Park Chan-wook
Director
2 films together
Notably The Handmaiden
Kim Jee-woon
Director
1 film together
Notably Illang: The Wolf Brigade
Lee Hae-young
Director
1 film together
Notably Believer
Han Jun-hee
Director
1 film together
Notably Hit-and-Run Squad
Lee Jung-ho
Director
1 film together
Notably The Beast
Lee Byeong-heon
Director
1 film together
Notably Extreme Job
Bong Joon-ho
Director
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Yoon Sung-hyun
Director
1 film together
Notably Time to Hunt
Kim Seong-hun
Director
1 film together
Notably Ransomed
Song Kang-ho
Actor
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Lee Sun-kyun
Actor
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Cho Yeo-jeong
Actor
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Choi Woo-shik
Actor
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Park So-dam
Actor
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Lee Jung-eun
Actor
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Jang Hye-jin
Actor
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Park Myung-hoon
Actor
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Jung Zi-so
Actor
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Jung Hyeon-jun
Actor
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Park Keun-rok
Actor
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Jung Yi-seo
Actor
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bong Joon-ho
Director
3 films together · 8.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ParasitePark Chan-wook
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The HandmaidenLee Byeong-heon
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Extreme JobHan Jun-hee
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hit-and-Run SquadLee Hae-young
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BelieverYoon Sung-hyun
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Time to HuntKim Seong-hun
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RansomedLee Jung-ho
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BeastKim Jee-woon
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Illang: The Wolf BrigadeSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2020
Parasite
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Parasite
as Street Man
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Handmaiden
as Harbor Ticket Office Ronin
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Parasite
as Street Man
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Okja
as Alfonso Transport
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Parasite
as Street Man
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Ahn Seong-bong has known it for a long time.”
“You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all.”
“She's rich, but still nice.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.2 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #226 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.4 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Thriller, Drama, Comedy | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Bong Joon-ho | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Screen presence, Quiet performance, Rewatchability | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2019–2019 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Street Man — Parasite | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | Parasite | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Best Movies of the 2010s, Thriller Movies, Movies With Incredible Endings, Top 250 Movies of All Time, Drama Movies
Michael Caine edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Action Legend
Awarded
19 catalogue titles in action, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Parasite
as Street Man
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Parasite
as Street Man
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Handmaiden
as Harbor Ticket Office Ronin
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Night Owl
as Envoy of Qing Dynasty
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Parasite
as Street Man
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Badland Hunters
as Director Oh
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Parasite
as Street Man
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Parasite
as Street Man
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 8 Nutevio collections
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Best Movies of the 2010s
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Comedy Movies
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Thriller Movies
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Movies With Incredible Endings
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Best Comedies
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Best Psychological Thrillers
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