LOS ANGELES 鈥� Youn Yuh-jung,'' the feisty grandmother in 鈥淢inari,鈥� captured more than her grandson's heart.
Youn, a prominent film and TV actor in her home country of South Korea, won the best supporting actress award at Sunday鈥檚 Oscars. She鈥檚 the second Asian actress to win in the category, more than four decades after Japanese-born Miyoshi Umeki earned the trophy for 1957鈥檚 鈥淪ayonara.鈥�
The first Korean woman to be nominated for an Oscar, Youn鈥檚 victory comes one year after academy voters snubbed the South Korean cast of best picture winner 鈥淧arasite.鈥�
Youn plays Soon-ja, a card-playing grandmom with a knack for swearing, who鈥檚 moved from Korea to join her daughter and stepson in his seemingly quixotic quest to trade dispiriting work in California for farming in Arkansas. Soon-ja and her initially wary grandson form an unlikely but loving bond.
Youn, making a rare U.S. screen appearance in 鈥淢inari,鈥� captured a string of
The Screen Actors Guild and the British film and TV academy were among those
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