Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11943
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Lee Ga-kyung 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.
Lee Ga-kyung appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lee. 12.12: The Day is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 comedy, drama, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Lee Myung-hoon, Hur Jin-ho, Yeon Sang-ho and others, Lee Ga-kyung 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.
12.12: The Day (2023) as Administrative Officer · Broker (2022) as Nurse 2 · Hit-and-Run Squad (2019) as Situation Room
Career snapshot
Ranked #11943 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
12.12: The Day
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
12.12: The Day
Most frequent director
Lee Myung-hoon
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Lee Myung-hoon
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
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
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Money, Hit-and-Run Squad, Black Money — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Money, Hit-and-Run Squad, Black Money.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | 6.73 films | 6.59 films |
| Action | 6.82 films | 6.87 films |
| Thriller | 6.72 films | 6.83 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.25 films |
| Crime | 7.03 films | 6.94 films |
| Romance | — | 5.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hideout Sect Member.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
202312.12: The Day
7.6 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
The current state of the argument, as Mi-do.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Administrative Officer
Directed by Unknown
as Gambling site employee
Directed by Unknown
as Secretary
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.
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The defining work
#1
Administrative Officer
12.12: The Day (2023)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Administrative Officer gives Lee Ga-kyung a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Nurse 2
Broker (2022)
Performance score7.1
Broker asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nurse 2 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Situation Room
Hit-and-Run Squad (2019)
Performance score7.1
Hit-and-Run Squad asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Situation Room is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gambling site employee
Special Delivery (2022)
Performance score7.0
Special Delivery asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gambling site employee 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 Administrative Officer
Start here. 12.12: The Day is the clearest statement of what Lee Ga-kyung does — accessible, 142 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lee 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.
Hit-and-Run Squad (2019)
Keeps the action register of 12.12: The Day but asks for a colder reading of it.
Black Money (2019)
Keeps the crime register of Hit-and-Run Squad but asks for a colder reading of it.
Broker (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Black Money but asks for a colder reading of it.
Special Delivery (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Broker — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kim Jee-woon
Director
1 film together
Notably Illang: The Wolf Brigade
Han Jun-hee
Director
1 film together
Notably Hit-and-Run Squad
Park Noo-ri
Director
1 film together
Notably Money
Lee Cheol-ha
Director
1 film together
Notably OK! Madam
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Director
1 film together
Notably Broker
Lee Jung-jae
Director
1 film together
Notably Hunt
Yeon Sang-ho
Director
1 film together
Notably JUNG_E
Hur Jin-ho
Director
1 film together
Notably A Normal Family
Lee Myung-hoon
Director
1 film together
Notably Mission: Cross
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BrokerHan 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 Myung-hoon
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mission: CrossHur Jin-ho
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Normal FamilyLee Cheol-ha
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OK! MadamLee Jung-jae
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HuntPark Noo-ri
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MoneyKim 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 BrigadeYeon Sang-ho
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JUNG_ESix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
12.12: The Day
as Administrative Officer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Fasting Love
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
12.12: The Day
as Administrative Officer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
12.12: The Day
as Administrative Officer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
12.12: The Day
as Administrative Officer
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. Lee Ga-kyung has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
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
12 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
The Day I Died: Unclosed Case
as Wedding hall staff
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
12.12: The Day
as Administrative Officer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fasting Love
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Day I Died: Unclosed Case
as Wedding hall staff
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hit-and-Run Squad
as Situation Room
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
JUNG_E
as Researcher 2
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Black Money
as Secretary
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mission: Cross
as Dong-hyeok's Mother
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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