Actress who plays “Mask Girl” new prison warden appeared in “When the Camellia Blooms” & “Concrete Utopia”?
The identity of the new prison warden appearing in Netflix’s original series “Mask Girl” is a hot topic.
Recently, an article titled “The past of the new prison warden in ‘Mask Girl’” spread widely in online communities, drawing keen attention from netizens.
The article contains screenshots of a prison warden in episode 6 of “Mask Girl”.
Oh Ae Ja was appointed as the 27th warden of Heesung Prison where ‘Mask Girl’ Kim Mo Mi (Nana/ Go Hyun Jung) was imprisoned. She treats the prisoners kindly with faith on the outside but is filled with anger and desire inside.
The character left a deep impression with her smart bobbed hair with bangs. The excellent acting of the actress who played Oh Ae Ja also captivated viewers. Therefore, although she did not have much screen time, many people posted online wondering, “The warden of ‘Mask Girl’ prison? Who is she?”, “I think I saw the prison warden in ‘Mask Girl’ somewhere”, etc.
A netizen actually found out about the actress who portrayed Oh Ae Ja and revealed her identity through theqoo on August 21st.
The netizen said, “I was watching ‘Mask Girl’ and found the face of the prison warden so familiar. I searched for her and it turns out that she’s actress Lee Seon Hee”.
Revealing that Lee Seon Hee appeared in KBS 2TV’s 2019 drama “When the Camellia Blooms” and the recently released movie “Concrete Utopia” as an outsider survivor, they said, “She played the youngest member of the Ong-vengers (Ongsan & Avengers) in “When the Camellia Blooms”. I think she has lost a lot of weight compared to back then”, adding “In ‘Concrete Utopia’, she gets kicked out of the apartment with a baby”.
Seeing the photos of Lee Seon Hee, many other netizens were very surprised. They exclaimed, “Wow, she really lost a lot of weight”, “Ah!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder I found her familiar”, “She looks like a different person with glasses on”, “I thought she was actress Lee Jung Eun”, “I’m quite good at recognizing people but I failed to recognize her”, “OMG! I watched all three works but didn’t recognize her..!!”, “So it was her…”, etc.
Actress Lee Seon Hee was born in 1978. She graduated from the Department of Drama at Seoul Institute of the Arts.
She debuted through a theater play in 2002 and made her face known to the public after appearing in various dramas. Her representative works are “Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River”, “Queen of Mystery”, “When The Camellia Blooms”, “Move the Grave”, Please Don’t Save Me”, “When the Weather is Fine”, “Adult Trainee”, “Our Beloved Summer”, “Green Mothers’ Club”, “Alienoid”, “Concrete Utopia”, etc.
Starring Lee Seon Hee, “Mask Girl” tells about Kim Mo Mi, an ordinary office worker with an appearance complex who gets caught up in an unexpected incident while working as an Internet broadcasting BJ every night with her face covered by a mask. It premiered on Netflix on August 18th.
Source: Wikitree
