Lee Yi-dam
Lee Yi-dam (이이담), born Baek Hye-won (백혜원) on May 20, 1996, has been building one of the cleaner breakout arcs in Korean screen acting. She started in short-form work with Two Lights: Relumino in 2017, then used early television roles to prove range before the wider market caught up.
The real acceleration came once streaming audiences met her through Netflix. In 2023, Lee used Black Knight and Daily Dose of Sunshine to show two different strengths in the same year: she could hold tension inside a genre-heavy dystopian series, and she could also play emotional realism with enough restraint to land in a healing drama. Her turn as Min Deul-re in Daily Dose of Sunshine pushed her into Baeksang-level new-actress conversation and made her impossible to file away as just another useful supporting player.
That momentum carried into The Queen Who Crowns and then into 2026 projects including Can This Love Be Translated?. Her current base at Ghost Studio fits the trajectory: a management setup with room to scale rather than oversell. Lee Yi-dam's appeal right now is precision. She works with control, clean line readings, and enough emotional discipline to stand out in ensemble-heavy drama without forcing the camera to notice her.
