Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9463
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jung Zi-so 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 Zi-so appears in 7 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, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for crime, thriller, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kim Yong-wan, Bong Joon-ho, Bong Joon Ho, Jung Zi-so 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 Da-hye · Parasite (2019) as Da-hye · The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey (2021) as Baek So-jin
Career snapshot
Ranked #9463 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2019–2026
Career length
7 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
Kim Yong-wan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Kim Yong-wan
Most common genre
Thriller
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
6.9
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
9.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Parasite, Parasite — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
9.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
8.5
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.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 9.12 films | 6.51 film |
| Action | — | 6.91 film |
| Thriller | 9.12 films | 6.73 films |
| Comedy | 9.12 films | 5.51 film |
| Crime | — | 5.81 film |
| Romance | — | 6.51 film |
| Horror | — | 7.22 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Parasite
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Da-hye. 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
2026Sister
The current state of the argument, as Seong Hae-ran.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Da-hye
Directed by Bong Joon-ho
as Da-hye
Directed by Bong Joon Ho
as Baek So-jin
Directed by Kim Yong-wan
as Lee Mi-sol
Directed by Unknown
as Eun-seo
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 13 of 13 titles · 13 total credits · active 2016–2026
Sister
2026 · Seong Hae-ran
Holy Night: Demon Hunters
2025 · Eun-seo
Midnight Sun
2025 · Lee Mi-sol
Pro Bono
2025 · TV · Elijah
Inspector
2024 · TV · Self
Who Is She
2024 · TV · Oh Doo-ri
Men of Plastic
2022 · Kang Yu-ri
The Glory
2022 · TV · Moon Dong-eun (young)
The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey
2021 · Baek So-jin
Hellbound
2021 · TV · Angel (voice)
Doom at Your Service
2021 · TV · So Nyeo-shin
Parasite
2019 · Da-hye
W: Two Worlds Apart
2016 · TV · Teenage Oh Yeon-joo
The defining work
#1
Da-hye
Parasite (2019)
Performance score9.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Da-hye gives Jung Zi-so a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Da-hye
Parasite (2019)
Performance score8.4
Parasite asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Da-hye is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Baek So-jin
The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey (2021)
Performance score7.7
The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Baek So-jin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lee Mi-sol
Midnight Sun (2025)
Performance score7.2
Midnight Sun asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lee Mi-sol 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 Da-hye
Start here. Parasite is the clearest statement of what Jung Zi-so 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.
The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey (2021)
Keeps the thriller register of Parasite but asks for a colder reading of it.
Midnight Sun (2025)
A deliberate change of key after The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Holy Night: Demon Hunters (2025)
Same director as Midnight Sun, 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
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Bong Joon-ho
Director
1 film together
Notably Parasite
Kim Yong-wan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey
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 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
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
ParasiteKim Yong-wan
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Cursed: Dead Man's PreySix 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 Da-hye
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Midnight Sun
as Lee Mi-sol
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 Da-hye
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Parasite
as Da-hye
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Parasite
as Da-hye
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 Zi-so 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 | 8.1 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #328 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 | Da-hye — 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in thriller, 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 Da-hye
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Parasite
as Da-hye
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Midnight Sun
as Lee Mi-sol
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey
as Baek So-jin
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Parasite
as Da-hye
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Holy Night: Demon Hunters
as Eun-seo
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Parasite
as Da-hye
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Parasite
as Da-hye
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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