Meet Lee Yo-won, star of Netflix’s Green Mothers’ Club with Choo Ja-hyun: she’s acted opposite Bae Doona and appeared in K-pop music videos, but rose to global stardom in period K-dramas

Apr 11 , 2022

Lee Yo-won stars in Netflix’s Green Mothers’ Club. Photo: @yowon_official/Instagram

The Korean actress stars as the main lead in the new mystery-thriller series alongside Choo Ja-hyun, Kim Gyu-ri, Hye Jin Jang and Ju Min-gyeong

After a three-year hiatus, she made a comeback to acting with critically acclaimed gigs like May 18 and Queen Seondeok – and loves weight training with her husband

Among the roster of new K-dramas coming to Netflix this month, the mystery-thriller Green Mothers’ Club has already been making a buzz for its quirky plot. The show follows a group of five mothers in a competitive grade school community with their own secrets and dramas to hide.

Kim Gyu-ri, Lee Yo-won, Ju Min-gyeong, Choo Ja-hyun and Jang Hye-jin in Green Mothers’ Club (2022). Photo: Netflix

Actress Lee Yo-won plays the leading role of Lee Eun-pyo, an ordinary housewife with a prestigious education who studied abroad in France. In an interview quoted by Soompi, Lee shared the reason she took the project.

“The most attractive thing was that it expressed women’s lives in varied and three-dimensional ways. While reading the script, I sympathised a lot with Lee Eun-pyo and the other mothers in the Green Mothers’ Club.”

Green Mothers’ Club follows the story of five mothers with secrets. Photo: @yowon_official/Instagram

Fans are ecstatic to watch Lee in her new role, starring opposite actresses like Choo Ja-hyun and Jang Hye-jin.

Here are a few interesting facts about the Korean star you need to know.

1. She started her career as a cover model

Lee Yo-won started her career as a model. Photo: @yowon_official/Instagram

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