Profile | Who is Lee Do-hyun, star of K-dramas The Glory and Sweet Home with an alluring voice, air of mystery and a keen intelligence? His rise to the top
- Lee Do-hyun, currently on our screens in The Glory alongside Song Hye-kyo, has come a long way from his dream in middle school of being a basketball player
- The actor debuted in Prison Playbook, drew praise for Hotel Del Luna, was handed his first lead role in 18 Again and became a global star with Sweet Home
Lee Do-hyun, currently starring as a romantic plastic surgeon with a dark secret in Netflix’s The Glory, is one of the newest Korean faces on our screens, and one of the most popular.
While he’s not an actor we immediately recall for his physique – his deep gaze, air of mystery and intelligence come to mind first – Lee was a keen basketball player in middle school.
Around the same time, he became a huge fan of the 2006 Korean gangster film Sunflower with Kim Rae-won, which he claims to have seen dozens of times. By the time he started high school, his passion had switched from sport to acting.
Lee went on to study in the department of film and theatre at Chung-Ang University in Seoul.
Why we love him
Lee has very distinctive looks and, without saying anything, comes across as someone wise beyond his years – no wonder, then, that he played a 37-year-old man in an 18-year-old’s body in the hit drama 18 Again.
