Park Hae-soo
Acting
Born November 21, 1981, Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Park Hae-soo (born November 21, 1981) is a South Korean actor. He is best known worldwide for portraying Cho Sang-woo in the first season of the Netflix hit series Squid Game (2021), which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Park started his career in theater and has played a large number of leading and supporting roles in plays and musicals. He subsequently expanded his career into film and television and achieved his breakthrough with Prison Playbook (2017–2018), one of the highest-rated Korean dramas on cable television. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with Netflix, including Narco-Saints (2022), Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area (2022), Karma (2025), The Price of Confession (2025), and The Great Flood (2025).
Filmography
- The Great Oksuk — Yoon Tae-woong
- The Scarecrow — Kang Tae-ju
- Butterfly — Yong Shik Choi
- 2025Good News — Ryeo Dol-chan
- Karma — Kim Beon-jun
- 2025Lobby — Golf field owner
- 2025The Cherry Orchard
- 2025The Great Flood — Son Hee-jo
- The Price of Confession — Baek Dong-hun
- 2025Tristes Tropiques
- 2024Whales and I — Narrator (voice)
- 2023Phantom — Kaito Takahara
- Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area — Berlin
- Narco-Saints — Choi Chang-ho
- 2022Yaksha: Ruthless Operations — Han Ji-hoon
- 우리_사이
- Chimera — Cha Jae-hwan
- Racket Boys — Lee Jae-jung
- Squid Game — Cho Sang-woo / Player 218
- 2020Time to Hunt — Han
- 2019By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture — Lee Chan-woo
- Persona — Jung-woo
- Memories of the Alhambra — Agent A
- Prison Playbook — Kim Je-hyeok
- The Liar and His Lover — Bass player
- 2016Master — President Jin's Pawns
- The Legend of the Blue Sea — Hong Dong-pyo
- Six Flying Dragons — Yi Ji-ran
- 2015The Unfair — Jo Goo-hwan's assistant
- 2014The Pirates — Hwang Joong-geun
- God of War — Kim Yoon-hoo
- Gulf of Aden
- K.O. Club
- Paper Man — Oh Seung-eop
Appearances as themselves (8)
- Yoobari Talkbari — Self
- Here for Promo — Self
- Whenever Possible — Self
- Persona: Sulli — Self
- Whales and I — Self - Narrator (voice)
- SNL Korea — Self - Host
- The Game Caterers — Self
- You Quiz on the Block — Self