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- Lee Jung-jae plays Seong Gi-hun. Who is Seong Gi-hun? Seong Gi-hun is a divorced gambling addict whose financial woes are getting in the way of gaining custody of his daughter.
- Park Hae-soo plays Cho Sang-woo. Who is Cho Sang-woo? Cho Sang-woo grew up poor alongside Seong Gi-hun. A gifted student, Cho Sang-woo eventually graduates from Seoul National University and becomes the head of an investment team.
- HoYeon Jung plays Kang Sae-byeok. Who is Kang Sae-byeok? A North Korean defector, the resourceful Kang Sae-byeok joins the game in a bid to secure the money she needs to get the rest of her family out of North Korea and help her little brother, who is in an orphanage in Seoul.
- Anupam Tripathi plays Abdul Ali. Who is Abdul Ali? He is a migrant worker hailing from Pakistan who loses several fingers during an accident in the factory where he works.
Squid Game (TV Series 2021–2025) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- Lee Jung-Jae (이정재) as Seong Gi-Hun
- Park Hae-Soo (박해수) as Cho Sang-Woo
- Jung Ho-Yeon (정호연) as Kang Sae-Byeok
- Tripathi Anupam (아누팜 트리파티) as Abdul Ali
- OH Young-Soo (오영수) as OH Il-Nam
- WI Ha-Joon (위하준) as Hwang Jun-Ho
- Heo Sung-Tae (허성태) as Jang Deok-Su
- Kim Joo-Ryung (김주령) as Han Mi-Nyeo
- Lee Byung-hun (이병헌) as In-Ho
- Supporting Squid Game Cast Members
The lead of theSquid Game cast is protagonist Seong Gi-hun, a divorced gambler who needs money to gain custody of his daughter. After finding out that his mother has diabetes and needs surgery, Gi-hun has even more reason to join and win the games. The model-turned-actor Lee Jung-jae was also in The Face Reader as Grand Prince Suyang, as well asIl ...
Seong Gi-hun’s childhood friend Cho Sang-woo is the local neighborhood’s success story in the Squid Game cast. After graduating from a prestigious university and making the right business investments, Cho Sang-woo gets caught stealing money, and is on the run from the police. As one of the smarter players, Sang-woo’s quick thinking and knowledge of...
Kang Sae-byeok needs the prize money to get her mother and the rest of her family out of North Korea. She also wants to use it to create a nice life for her little brother, who lives in an orphanage. Sae-byeok of the Squid Game cast is a skilled pickpocket who also knows her way around a knife. Squid Game is the first onscreen acting role for Jung ...
Played by one of the only non-Korean actors on the Squid Game cast, immigrant Pakistani worker Abdul Ali lost several fingers to a factory accident, for which he was never compensated. This leads him to go back to the factory and accost his former boss, who loses his own fingers in the confrontation, prompting Abdul to take his money and run. Despe...
Also known as Player 001, the oldest of the Squid Game cast is Oh Il-nam, for whom Gi-hun feels some responsibility. However, old man Il-nam is not as helpless as he seems. Responsible for Squid Game's most shocking twist of all, Oh Il-nam was both Gi-hun's gganbu (partner in challenges) and made it through the dalgona candy challenge, in particula...
After following clues that he believes might lead him to his missing brother, Seoul police officer Hwang Jun-ho of the Squid Game cast tries yet fails to get more clues from Gi-hun. This prompts Jun-ho to go undercover as one of the staff who organizes the games in order to get a closer look, triggering a neo-noir detective story arc within the dar...
As a gangster in Seoul, Squid Game cast member Jang Deok-su did well for himself by dipping his fingers in the pockets of his underlings in the criminal underworld. But when he gets greedy enough to steal from his boss – alongside garnering massive gambling debts – he also gets desperate enough to compete in Squid Game. It’s no surprise that actor ...
Very little is revealed about Squid Game cast member Han Mi-nyeo, except that she’ll do or say whatever it takes to survive. Throughout the game she manages to team up with a number of people, most of whom end up betraying her in the process. However, she ends up joining G-hun's team for the remainder of the games. The quirky and surprisingly capab...
In-ho, also known as The Front Man, is the enigmatic masked leader who runs Squid Game. Aside for his work as part of the Squid Game cast, actor Lee Byung-hun is a well-known veteran in the industry. He has appeared in some of the highest-grossing films in the Korean drama and entertainment scene, including Master, The Good, The Bad, The Weird, Mas...
Gong Yoo (공유) as The Salesman – Playing the small but memorable role of The Salesman, who convinces Gi-hun and other players to join Squid Game, Gong Yoo is most famous for playing Kim Shin in the highly successful serial drama Coffee Prince, Kim Go-eun in Goblin, also known as Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, Seo Geon in One Fine Day, and Seo S...
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- Player 456 – Seong Gi Hun played by Lee Jung Jae. Seong Gi Hun is a divorced father and a gambling addict with a massive amount of debt that keeps weighing down on him and his mother whom he lives with.
- Player 218 – Cho Sang Woo played by Park Hae Soo. Cho Sang Woo is a Seoul National University alumnus who used to have a respectable job as the team leader of an investment company.
- Player 067 – Kang Sae Byeok played by Jung Ho Yeon. Kang Sae Byeok is a North Korean defector who arrived to South Korea with her brother with a plan to also bring their mother along in their new home.
- Player 001 – Oh Il Nam played by Oh Young Soo. Oh Il Nam is the game’s first and oldest player. Unlike the rest of the participants who joined in order to get rid of their burdensome debts, he had a different burden of his own: a brain tumor that is putting his life on countdown.
Sep 22, 2021 · In Squid Game, hundreds of desperate adults driven by crushing debt are invited to play children's games, but with a singular, absolute penalty upon being eliminated – death.
Oct 4, 2021 · In real life, Squid Game is the first major acting role for HoYeon, and she’s actually a very successful model with millions of Instagram followers. She is 27-years-old, born in 1994 in Seoul,...
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