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Born: 21 November 1981 · Age: 44
Park Hae-soo is 44 years old as of October 2026. He was born on 21 November 1981.
Stage-trained South Korean actor who played the ambitious Cho Sang-woo in Squid Game and Berlin in Money Heist: Korea
Did you know?He spent years acting in theatre before his television breakthrough.
Park Hae-soo trained and worked for years on stage before finding television fame. Prison Playbook, about a baseball star sent to prison, gave him his first big role. Squid Game made him known around the world as the ambitious, morally compromised childhood friend of the hero. His performance was one of the darkest in the series. He followed it with Money Heist: Korea and Narco-Saints. He continues to take on theatre roles.
Park Hae-soo (Korean: 박해수; 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 series Squid Game (2021), which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
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South Korean actor, born 1981
Park Hae-soo was born in Suwon on 21 November 1981.
He was born in Suwon, South Korea.
He played Cho Sang-woo in Squid Game.
He starred in the prison drama Prison Playbook in 2017.
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