Yoo Ji Tae (Ji Tae Yoo)

Also known as: Yu Ji Tae, 劉智泰

Date of birth: 13 April 1976 (50 years old)

Country: South Korean

Occupation: Actor, Model

Yoo Ji Tae (Ji Tae Yoo) is a South Korean actor, film director and screenwriter, signed to BH Entertainment. He was born on 13 April 1976. Before acting he worked as a model. A string of hit films early in his career, among them Attack the Gas Station and Ditto, made his name across South Korea. Abroad he is best remembered as the villain in Park Chan Wook's Oldboy. On television he has appeared in Healer (2014), The Good Wife (2016), Jugglers (2017), Different Dreams (2019), Vigilante (2023) and Secret Love (2024), and in 2026 he appears in the film The King's Warden. He married the actress Kim Hyo Jin on 2 December 2011; the couple have a son, Yoo Soo In, born on 5 July 2014. In 2011 both became honorary ambassadors of World Vision.