Yeom Hye-ran

Yeom Hye-ran (염혜란, born October 30, 1976, in Yeosu, South Korea) is a South Korean stage, film, and television actress represented by Ace Factory. She studied Korean Language and Literature at Seoul Women's University, where she discovered acting through the college theatre club.

In 1999, she auditioned for the Yeonwoo Theater Company and spent the next five years building her craft on stage. Director Bong Joon-ho invited her to audition for Memories of Murder (2003) after seeing her in a Yeonwoo production, marking her screen debut. She co-founded Theater Iru in 2004 alongside actress Woo Mi-hwa and continued to balance stage and screen work throughout the 2000s and 2010s.

Her television breakthrough came with When the Camellia Blooms (2019), which earned her a KBS Drama Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won the first of her three Baeksang Arts Awards for Best Supporting Actress for The Uncanny Counter (2021), where she played Chu Mae-ok, a counter who runs a noodle restaurant as cover. Further Baeksang wins followed for Mask Girl (2023) and When Life Gives You Tangerines (2025), in which she played Jeon Gwang-rye, the mother of lead character Aesun.

Her casting in Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice (2025) alongside Lee Byung-hun and Son Ye-jin brought her into one of the most anticipated Korean productions of the year. She does not use social media.