Biography
Korean actor Theo Yu is not familiar with a wide range of movie lovers, despite the fact that the Matra Kim Kim Ki is filmed. The Russian spectators had a chance to get acquainted with him closer after the actor starred in the leading role of the musician Viktor Tsoi in the biographical film of Cyril Serebrennikov "Summer".Childhood and youth
Teo - Korean, but born and grew up in German Cologne. At first, nothing in the biography of the guy did not foretell the fact that he would connect life from the movie, although the tendency to literature and acting skills were noted. There is much more interest amongu called Sport. But in 2001, Theo went to America. A young man settled in New York and studied at Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute.
At the end of the institute, I decided to try to try another approach to learning theatrical art and passed an intensive course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In parallel with the study, TEO managed to act in independent cinema and participate in a variety of productions on the Berlin and New York scenes.
In 2009, the actor returned to the Motherland of the ancestors - in Seoul.
Films
The Career of the Korean actor started in 2004 with the criminal drama "Borroquin Brooklyn" about the company of young people, gentle by drugs. In 2006, the actor got into the film Julia Locks, an American director, emigrated from Russia and known for his own witness. The tape was called "day-night, day-night" and told about the suicide trying to blow up the New York Bridge.
As journalists noted, the plot line is built by Julia so much more important than the external entourage, the inner state of a woman who is preparing to part with the life of an unknown higher goal. The film was demonstrated at the Independent Spirit Independent American Cinema Festival, the Cannes Film Festival and awarded the Prize "Fresh Look".
In 2012, the theo received a small role in the romantic comedy "Fictional Love" ("Love Romance"). The picture, shot in the favorite Koreans genre of the dorama, was advertised as a "male version" "Bridget Diary Jones" and is a history of searching for the writer's inspiration, which is experiencing a creative crisis.
After a couple of years, Theo is invited to the dramatic picture of the Korean director Kim Kim Ki Duka "one for one". This is a story about the investigation of a schoolgirl murder. The police have seven suspects, but it does not work in order to prove their involvement.
A secret organization is entering into business, which abducts in turn of all seven and entrusted them to be confused. The film is included in the program of the Film Festival in Venice and there is a prize of the Federation of European and Mediterranean critics.
The next year Theo Yu participated in the filming of another festival tape - the youth comedy "In Search of Seoul" Benson Lee. The film was especially close to the actor, because it was about the Koreans born abroad in it.
Especially for them in Seoul, a summer camp was created, in which "foreigners" rested and acquainted with their homeland. The premiere of the picture took place in the non-constructive program of the Sandens festival.
At the Venetian Film Festival of the same year, a demonstration of Dorimus Dorimus "Equal" was shown. The film is awarded the prize SoundTrack Stars. Nicholas Holt and Kristen Stewart participated in the caste, along with Theo.
The plot unfolds in the society of the future, in which the manifestation of emotions is unacceptable. The protagonist that feels something unfamiliar to him, found himself sick. From the last step of Silas, the girl is saved, which is experiencing the same. But there are no prospects for any relations.
In the comedy melodrama "This is a passion" Theo Yu was the role of a guy named Jay. In the center of Dorama - a graduate of the university, with difficulty established a job as a newspaper. The girl writes an entertainment column and does not receive pleasure from work. However, soon the boss makes it clear what means to love your business.
In 2016, Theo appeared in the Vietnamese militant at the current recent cryptocurrency "Abduction of Bitcoins" recently. Character Yu - Hacker, designed to the Interpol team to catch the same "electronic robber" on the nicknamed ghost.
Personal life
To find out the details on the interests of the Ooo outside of the shooting platform, it is still some complexity, the young actor leads a non-public lifestyle. It is possible that everything will change in the near future, at least for Russian spectators, because they will surely want to learn more about the executor of the role of a cult musician.
It is known that the artist owns three languages - English, German and native Korean. Preserved a children's passion for sports - playing basketball. In addition, it loves to cook, dance tango and hip-hop.
Teo Yu Now
In 2018 at the Cannes Film Festival, the "Summer" picture, filmed by Cyril Serebrennikov, will be presented in the main competitive program. Theo Yu performed in the lead role - the author and artist Viktor Tsoi. The events of the film covers a little-known episode from the life of a popular musician - a recording of the first album, acquaintance with Mike Namento and his wife.
In the form of the founder of the Zoo group on the screen, Roman Bielik debuts, the leader of the "Beasts" group, familiar to the creative pseudonym of Roma Beast. Irina Starshenbaum, the star of the blockbuster "attraction", got the character of his wife Natalia.
The filming of the film began in the summer of 2017, and immediately followed critical comments to the creators. In particular, a hint of a romantic relationship between Viktor and Natalia Napumenko was condemned.
According to the widow, Mike, given in an interview with "arguments and facts", the husband considered close friendly relations between them dangerous, but never jealous of his wife to Centy. They congratulated each other with the holidays, led long conversations to different topics. Natalia responded about Victor as a smart man, and the so-called love story called the kindergarten.
Kirill Serebrennikov was arrested right on the set in the case of the Seventh Studio. Installation of the "summer" director spent, being under house arrest. According to the reviews of critics, in such a situation it turns into Russian Jafar Panahi. And Theo Yu on his page in "Instagram" placed a link to the petition in support of the film creator. In the Twitter, the actors also have many posts concerning the investigation of the case of the head of the Gogol Center.
Filmography
- 2004 - "Brooklyn border"
- 2006 - "Day-night, day-night"
- 2009 - "Actresses"
- 2012 - "Fictional Love"
- 2012 - "Strangers from Shanghai"
- 2014 - "one after the other"
- 2015 - "This is the passion"
- 2016 - "Abduction of Bitcoins"
- 2018 - "Summer"