Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8107
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jung Yi-seo 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.
Jung Yi-seo appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jung. 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, quiet performance, transformation. 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 Roh Deok, Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and others, Jung Yi-seo 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 Pizza Manager · Parasite (2019) as Pizza Manager · Samjin Company English Class (2020) as Audit Office Employee
Career snapshot
Ranked #8107 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2018–2024
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.4
Parasite
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
Parasite
Most frequent director
Roh Deok
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Roh Deok
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
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
6.3
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
2020s
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Killers, Decision to Leave, Josée — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
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, TURN.
Most productive era
2010s
5 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 | 5.54 films | 7.52 films |
| Action | — | 5.91 film |
| Thriller | 9.12 films | 6.62 films |
| Comedy | 9.12 films | 7.71 film |
| Crime | — | 5.91 film |
| Romance | 0.01 film | 7.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018A Walk
Where our catalogue meets this career.
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
2024The Killers
The current state of the argument, as Eun-ji (segment "Metamorphosis").
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.
9 of 9 films
as Pizza Manager
Directed by Bong Joon-ho
as Pizza Manager
Directed by Bong Joon Ho
as Audit Office Employee
Directed by Unknown
as Mi-ji
Directed by Park Chan-wook
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 15 of 15 titles · 15 total credits · active 2018–2026
The WONDERfools
2026 · TV · Seok Ju-ran
When Life Gives You Tangerines
2025 · TV · Song Bu-seon
The Killers
2024 · Eun-ji (segment "Metamorphosis")
A Killer Paradox
2024 · TV · Sun Yeo-ok
Decision to Leave
2022 · Mi-ji
All of Us Are Dead
2022 · TV · Kim Hyeon-ju
Snowdrop
2021 · TV · Shin Kyung-ja
Mine
2021 · TV · Kim Yu-yeon
Josée
2020 · Na-young
Samjin Company English Class
2020 · Audit Office Employee
Tale of the Nine Tailed
2020 · TV · Kim Sae-rom
Parasite
2019 · Pizza Manager
TURN
2019 · Actor
Goodbye B1
2019 · Park Kyung-hye
A Walk
2018 · Actor
The defining work
#1
Pizza Manager
Parasite (2019)
Performance score9.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Pizza Manager gives Jung Yi-seo a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Pizza Manager
Parasite (2019)
Performance score8.4
Parasite asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pizza Manager is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Audit Office Employee
Samjin Company English Class (2020)
Performance score7.5
Samjin Company English Class asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Audit Office Employee is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mi-ji
Decision to Leave (2022)
Performance score7.2
Decision to Leave asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mi-ji is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Pizza Manager
Start here. Parasite is the clearest statement of what Jung Yi-seo 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 Jung 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.
Parasite (2019)
Same director as Parasite, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Samjin Company English Class (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Parasite but asks for a colder reading of it.
Josée (2020)
Same director as Samjin Company English Class, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Decision to Leave (2022)
Keeps the romance register of Josée but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kim Min-tae
Director
1 film together
Notably Goodbye B1
Bong Joon Ho
Director
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Bong Joon-ho
Director
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Park Chan-wook
Director
1 film together
Notably Decision to Leave
Roh Deok
Director
1 film together
Notably The Killers
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
Cho Jae-myung
Actor
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bong Joon-ho
Director
2 films together · 9.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ParasitePark Chan-wook
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Decision to LeaveRoh Deok
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The KillersKim Min-tae
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goodbye B1Six 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 Pizza Manager
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Josée
as Na-young
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 Pizza Manager
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Samjin Company English Class
as Audit Office Employee
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Parasite
as Pizza Manager
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. Jung Yi-seo 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 | 8.4 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #70 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, Rewatchability, Quiet performance | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2019–2019 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Pizza Manager — 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in drama, 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 Pizza Manager
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Parasite
as Pizza Manager
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Josée
as Na-young
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Decision to Leave
as Mi-ji
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Parasite
as Pizza Manager
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Killers
as Eun-ji (segment "Metamorphosis")
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Parasite
as Pizza Manager
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Parasite
as Pizza Manager
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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