Moon Jung Suk was born in Seoncheon, North Pyongan Province in what is modern day North Korea in 1929. She graduated from an Boseong Girls’ High School in 1947 after which Moon started her career as a theatre actor alongside her older sister Moon Jung Bok.
In 1952, she made her debut as an actress whilst starring in director Shin Sang Ok’s film ‘The Evil Night’, and later appeared in the same director’s ‘The Youth’ (1955). In 1956, director Yoo Hyeon Mok’s ‘Sadness of Wandering’ she began to attract attention, and by 1959, after Lee Kang Cheon’s ‘Life’ (1958) and Yang Joo Nam’s ‘The Bell Tower’ (1958), she had grown into an important actress.
Beginning with ‘Call 112’ (1962), she began appearing in the films of Lee Man Hee, and starred in ‘The Devil’s Stairway’, ‘Black Hair’ (1964), ‘The Market Place’ (1965), and ‘The Seven Female POWs’. Works such as , ‘Full Autumn’ (1966), and ‘Homebound’ (1967) became her representative works.
She continued to appear in movies every year until the late 1980s, and in 1996, despite her old age, her last appearance, directed by Park Chul Soo, was in the film ‘Farewell My Darling’, to the audience her role as ‘mother’ Left a deep impression.
She met her husband to be while working in the theatre company, she married Jang Il in 1948, but they divorced by agreement in 1967. She passed away in March 2000, aged 71.
(Source: KMDb)