Sassy Jeon Ji Hyun (Gianna Sun)

Jun Ji-hyun (전지현; aka Jeon Ji-hyeo, Gianna Sun) is a very popular South Korean actress, best known for her role in the Korean film My SassyGirl. Born is Seoul, Jun went to Dongguk University where she studied acting. She started working as a fashion model when she was 16 years old and then got some roles on Korean TV shows.

Jun began her film career in 1999 with White Valentine, followed by the popular Il Mare in 2000 (which was remade in Hollywood as The Lake House with Sandra Bullock).

Jun's best role was in the 2001 film My Sassy Girl, a romantic comedy in which Jun plays a drunk girl on a train. A guy helps her out which ends up getting him into all kinds of trouble, but of course its all worth for such a beautiful woman. Jun displays great presence in this role and its hard not to fall for her crazy chick character. My Sassy Girl was hugely popular throughout Asia and was remade in a Hollywood version in 2008 starring Elisha Cuthbert.

Other Korean film roles include Windstruck, a fantasy, romantic comedy (Jun plays a cop who mistakenly arrests a shy high school teacher, who of course is quickly enamored), Daisy, and A Man Who Was Superman (Jun plays a chainsmoking, documentary filmmaker who falls in love with a mentally challenged man who thinks he's Superman).

Recently, Jeon appeared in an English-language film, Blood: The Last Vampire under the name Gianna Jun. This is a different role for Jeon (or Gianna) since its a vampire, swordplay film. Here's a promotional video from the film with some action and interview footage. Her English is quite good and she looks sexy even slicing people in swordfighting scenes.

There's been a little bit of controversy about Jeon in Korea since Jeon has a Chinese father, originally from Taiwan. Jun is also sometimes known by her Chinese surname name "Wang" Ji-hyeon. Personally, I have no problem with the mix of Korean and Chinese and it certainly turned out quite well for Jeon (I actually there is a slight resemblence to stunningly beautiful Chinese actress Shu Qi).

Finally, here's a video clip of an tea advertisement. Now I like tea, but if drinking it was as sexy as this commercial makes it look, I'd never drink anything else!