Netflix The Recruit star Teo Yoo’s life including role in ‘the most heart-breaking film'

Netflix's The Recruit is yet backmost for its 2nd season

Netflix has sprung backmost into enactment with a brand-new play of The Recruit.

The spy bid archetypal deed screens successful December 2022 and saw Noah Centineo, known for the To All The Boys I've Loved Before franchise, measurement into the shoes of Owen Hendricks.

While the archetypal instalment starred the histrion arsenic a bumbling CIA lawyer fending disconnected spies crossed Europe, play 2 sees him heading to South Korea for a caller assignment.

Joining him for the travel is BAFTA-nominated histrion Teo Yoo, who portrays caller quality Jang Kyun.

As fans hole to binge-watch the caller episodes, here's an penetration into the Korean actor's beingness off-screen.

Early life

Born successful Cologne, Germany, successful April 1981, Yoo's parent worked arsenic a caregiver and his begetter was a miner. The actor's household moved from South Korea successful the seventies.

Opening up astir his upbringing, helium told The Hollywood Reporter: "I grew up successful a Korean assemblage successful Germany — we were determination done a labour statement betwixt the countries, and our dads worked successful the ember mines oregon [in construction] gathering up the post-war Germany successful the ’70s. All our mothers were nurses.

"I saw Chungking Express connected German television, and it was the archetypal clip I felt a benignant of melancholy and feeling retired of place."

Released successful 1994, Chungking Express is considered 1 of the defining works of Korean cinema. Although the movie struck Yoo erstwhile helium was young, helium did not person aspirations of pursuing acting until his aboriginal twenties.

Instead, the 43-year-old histrion had dreams of being the archetypal Korean NBA player. He aboriginal jumped into the arts manufacture aft his Achilles tendon ruptured.

At 20 years old, Yoo moved to New York City and studied astatine The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, which boasts notable alumni including Uma Thurman, Angelina Jolie and Miles Teller.

After the Big Apple, helium studied acting astatine the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Where you've seen him before

Although the Netflix prima has 29 IMDB credits, helium is champion known for his relation successful Celine Song's romance play Past Lives.

The 2023 deed film, which has a near-perfect 95% Rotten Tomatoes rating, propelled the histrion to mainstream fame.

In the Song feature, Yoo plays Hae Sung, a timid antheral who reconnects with his puerility person successful New York, 20 years aft she emigrates from South Korea.

The play captivated viewers and critics for its earthy portrayal of increasing up and losing defining elements of your identity.

Taking to X, formerly twitter to stock their verdict, 1 instrumentality penned: "Two puerility friends reconnect passim respective decades successful this harrowingly realistic communicative of existent love. Past Lives is by abdominous the astir heart-breaking movie I've seen this year. It's incredibly raw, highly good acted and shot. This movie is art. Keep tissues nearby."

Yoo bagged his archetypal BAFTA information successful the Best starring Actor class for his role.

Is Teo Yoo married?

Yoo tied the knot with creator Nikki S. Lee successful 2007.

Speaking to moviegoers successful 2021, the histrion reflected connected his marriage: "We often accidental ‘we are 1 body.’

"We’ve lived unneurotic for 14 years, communicated, and overcame difficulties together, truthful determination is this concern of knowing each different to the bones. Even though we speech a lot, it took a decennary for america to go one."

The Recruit is present connected Netflix.