Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12561
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
You Chea-myung 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.
You Chea-myung appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without You. After Spring is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 fantasy, drama, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Woo Min-ho, Lee Jung-jae, Lee Won-tae and others, You Chea-myung 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.
After Spring (2018) as Sang-won · MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission (2019) as Kim Du-bong · The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019) as Heo Sang-do
Career snapshot
Ranked #12561 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
After Spring
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
After Spring
Most frequent director
Woo Min-ho
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Woo Min-ho
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
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
6.4
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
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil, Money, The Beast — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.4
Across 8 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
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil, Money, The Beast.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 7.46 films | 6.89 films |
| Action | 6.93 films | 6.94 films |
| Thriller | 7.03 films | 6.42 films |
| Comedy | 7.81 film | 3.42 films |
| Crime | 6.94 films | 7.41 film |
| Romance | 7.01 film | 6.81 film |
| Horror | — | 5.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018The Drug King
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Chief Kim.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018After Spring
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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 Seong-joon.
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.
22 of 22 films
as Sang-won
Directed by Unknown
as Chang-bok
Directed by Unknown
as Heo Sang-do
Directed by Lee Won-tae
as Kim Du-bong
Directed by Eom Yu-na
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Sang-won
After Spring (2018)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sang-won gives You Chea-myung a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Chang-bok
Voice of Silence (2020)
Performance score7.7
Voice of Silence asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chang-bok is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Heo Sang-do
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)
Performance score7.7
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Heo Sang-do is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kim Du-bong
MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission (2019)
Performance score7.6
MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kim Du-bong 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 Sang-won
Start here. After Spring is the clearest statement of what You Chea-myung does — accessible, 72 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet You 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 Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)
A deliberate change of key after After Spring — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Voice of Silence (2020)
Keeps the drama register of MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kingmaker (2022)
Same director as Voice of Silence, 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.
Woo Min-ho
Director
2 films together
Notably Harbin
Lim Dae-hyung
Director
1 film together
Notably Moonlit Winter
Kim Seung-woo
Director
1 film together
Notably Bring Me Home
Eom Yu-na
Director
1 film together
Notably MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission
Lee Jung-ho
Director
1 film together
Notably The Beast
Park Noo-ri
Director
1 film together
Notably Money
Lee Won-tae
Director
1 film together
Notably The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
Lee Jung-jae
Director
1 film together
Notably Hunt
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Woo Min-ho
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
HarbinEom Yu-na
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MAL·MO·E: The Secret MissionLee Won-tae
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Gangster, the Cop, the DevilLim Dae-hyung
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Moonlit WinterLee 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
MoneyLee 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 Seung-woo
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bring Me HomeSix 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
After Spring
as Sang-won
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Moonlit Winter
as Inho
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
After Spring
as Sang-won
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission
as Kim Du-bong
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
After Spring
as Sang-won
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. You Chea-myung 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
15 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
After Spring
as Sang-won
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
After Spring
as Sang-won
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Ditto
as Supervisor
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Bring Me Home
as Senior Police Officer Hong
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
After Spring
as Sang-won
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Alienoid: Return to the Future
as Master Hyun
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission
as Kim Du-bong
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Switch
as Dong-baek
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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