Lim Ji-yeon

Who is Lim Ji-yeon?

Lim Ji-yeon (임지연) is an actor signed to Artist Company, whose own actor page names the 2011 film Dear Catastrophe as her debut and gives her birth date as 23 June 1990. Cine21’s person database lists eleven films and eighteen television titles.

The films run from that debut through Jong Ga-heun in Obsessed (2013), Dan-hui in The Treacherous (2014), Eun-ju in Luck-Key (2015), Yeong-mi in Tazza: One Eyed Jack (2019), Mun Jin-a in The Others (2020) and Jeong Yun-seon in Revolver (2023).

On television the list opens with Lee Ji-i in High Society (2015) and Kim Mi-pung in Windy Mi-poong and The Royal Gambler (2016), and runs through Welcome 2 Life (2019), Rose Mansion and Money Heist: Korea — Joint Economic Area Part 2 (2022), Park Yeon-jin across both parts of Netflix’s The Glory (2022 and 2023), Chu Sang-eun in Lies Hidden in My Garden (2023), The Killing Vote (2023), Gu Deok-i and Ok Tae-yeong in The Tale of Lady Ok (2024) and Nice to Not Meet You in 2025.

Awards

Cine21 records best new actress at the 51st Grand Bell Awards for Obsessed, and lists a nomination in the same category at the 35th Blue Dragon Film Awards for the same film. At the 59th Baeksang Arts Awards, held at Paradise City in Incheon on 28 April 2023, she took the television section’s best supporting actress award for The Glory, as edaily reported from the ceremony that day.

2026

In 2026 she led SBS’s Friday–Saturday drama My Royal Nemesis. Cine21 lists the role as two characters, Shin Seo-ri and Kang Dan-sim: the premise puts the soul of the Joseon villainess Dan-sim into the body of the obscure actress Seo-ri, so one performer carries both. The drama ran to fourteen episodes from 8 May to 20 June 2026.

The series, in which Lim Ji-yeon moves between Sin Seo-ri and Kang Dan-sim, streamed on Netflix outside Korea and stayed in the non-English TV top 10 for eight weeks, gathering 27.6 million views by Netflix’s weekly count. The week-by-week figures and the domestic ratings are on the series page.