Kim So-hyun

She then starred in a family comedy film, Spy Papa, about parents and children's relationship during inter-Korean relations in 1974.

Kim So-hyun (born June 4, 1999) is an Australian-born South Korean actress who began her career as a child in 2006, initially gaining public attention for playing pivotal roles in Moon Embracing the Sun (2012) and Missing You (2013).

Kim So-hyun was born on June 4, 1999, in Australia, and has a younger brother.

She moved to South Korea in 2003, when she was four years old.

Her father died when she was nine years old.

Kim debuted as a child actress in 2006, playing a supporting role in the Drama City special "Ten Minute Minor".

Then, she diligently increased her appearances from A Happy Woman (2007), Que Sera Sera (2007), Hometown of Legends (2008), My Name Is Pity (2008), Wife and Woman (2009) and Ja Myung Go (2009).

She signed a management contract with SidusHQ in 2010.

That year, she would go on to be cast in Becoming a Billionaire and King of Baking, Kim Takgu.

Kim was confirmed to make her big-screen debut in Man of Vendetta (2010) as Joo Hye-rin, a daughter of a well-respected pastor who gets kidnapped.

Kim was cast through a competition of 500:1.

She continued to portray the child counterparts of the female protagonists in television series such as The Thorn Birds (2011), The Duo (2011) and Sin of a Family (2011).

She took on her first leading role in teen drama Ma Boy (2012) and since then has starred in many TV series including high-school drama Who Are You: School 2015 (2015), horror comedy Hey Ghost, Let's Fight (2016), historical melodrama The Emperor: Owner of the Mask (2017), romantic comedies Radio Romance (2018) and The Tale of Nokdu (2019), teen suspense romance Love Alarm (2019–2021) and Korean folklore River Where the Moon Rises as an assassin.

Kim transferred from Hoeryong Elementary School in Gyeonggi Province to Towol Elementary School and graduated in February 2012.

In 2012, Kim appeared in six works in the first half of the year: a romantic fantasy television series, Padam Padam; a historical comedy film, I Am the King; a fantasy-period drama Moon Embracing the Sun, in which she gained recognition as the younger version of the second female lead, Kim received commend from the audience and the director of how well she portrayed the antagonist's desire realistically the drama came to rank number one in its time slot throughout its run and achieved a peak recorded viewer rating of 42.2%, thereby earning the "national drama" status Kim simultaneously became "Korea's little sister"; followed by a fantasy-comedy Rooftop Prince in the role as an evil sister; Love Again and a high school student whose roommate is a female idol star in Ma Boy.

Kim reunited with co-stars from Rooftop Prince (Park Yoo-chun) and Moon Embracing the Sun (Yeo Jin-goo) respectively, in a melodrama Missing You.

Being dubbed the "Queen of Child Actors" (아역퀸) by the Korean press, she was one of the most praised child actors of her generation.

She played the role of Lee Soo-yeon, bullied by her schoolmates and called "the daughter of the murderer", who gets kidnapped and sexually assaulted while trying to save her friend.

Kim and Yeo shared the highest one-minute viewer rating scene of 10.4% in the drama.

She received her first acting award as "Best Child Actress" at the 1st K-Drama Star Awards for Ma Boy and Missing You.

In 2013, Kim made a surprise appearance on Iris II: New Generation as the childhood counterpart of the female protagonist and starred in The Secret of Birth as a girl with a genius-level brain.

Then, she played the younger version of Lee Bo-young's character in the popular Korean drama I Can Hear Your Voice.

On June 20, Kim co-host MBC's music program Music Core along with Minho of SHINee and Noh Hong-chul.

She then graduated from Yongin Munjung Middle School in 2015.

Pure Love (2016) was her first movie as a lead.

Korean medias also recognised her as the next generation of "Nation's First Love" from her performance in Pure Love (2016) movie.

She has established herself as a top Hallyu star.

For her performance in River Where the Moon Rises, she was nominated for Baeksang Arts Award for Best Actress – Television, becoming one of the youngest nominees for the award.

Kim consistently promotes her television work on Instagram.

In 2016, according to Singapore's national newspaper The Straits Times, Kim revealed in an email interview with the paper why she chose homeschooling instead of enrolling in high school.

She said that while managing her acting career, she barely had time to study during her middle school days (which made her have to take her exams unprepared) and missed out in activities with her classmates, and this similarly occurred in her elementary school days.

Kim chose homeschooling for her high school education because she did not want to give up her education and career.

With this decision, Kim felt it would allow her to dedicate more time to both filming and studying.

She was subsequently homeschooled for secondary education, and passed her high school graduation exams by 2017.

The same year, she enrolled at Hanyang University's Department of Theater, through rolling admission.

She was awarded the '2018 Most Grown Instagram Account' with 7.1 million followers.

At the age of 21, Kim became the youngest South Korean actress to have more than 10 million followers on social media, alongside actor Lee Min-ho.

Kim attended the 79th entrance ceremony held at Hanyang University in Seongdong District, Seoul on February 28, 2018.

She was the regular host of MBC's music program Music Core and survival reality show Under Nineteen in 2019.

Kim has been nicknamed in variety by the Korean medias as the "Nation's Little Sister", "Queen of Child Actresses", "Goddess of Historical Drama" and also the "Sageuk Goddess", after starring and appearing in various acclaimed historical period dramas throughout her career, and having gained experience working as an actress from childhood to the present day.