Film and stage actor
| Life | 1962 |
| Era | 근현대(현대) |
| Clan | 전주 최씨 |
Choe Min-sik, born in Seoul's Ihwa-dong, studied theater and film at Dongguk University before establishing himself as one of Korea's foremost character actors from the 1990s onward. His performance in Park Chan-wook's Oldboy (2003), which won the Grand Prix at Cannes, swept best-actor awards at domestic and international film ceremonies and earned him a Presidential Culture Medal in 2004.
He later starred as Admiral Yi Sun-sin in the blockbuster Roaring Currents (2014) and in the horror hit Exhuma (2024), both surpassing ten million admissions, and has received the Baeksang Arts Award for Best Film in addition to multiple Blue Dragon Film Awards.