Park Hae-soo
Acting
Born: 1981-11-21 in Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Biography
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).
Known For
Squid Game
Cho Sang-woo / Player 218
The Great Flood
Son Hee-jo
Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area
Berlin
Time to Hunt
Han
Yaksha: Ruthless Operations
Han Ji-hoon
The Pirates
Hwang Joong-geun
The Legend of the Blue Sea
Hong Dong-pyo
Narco-Saints
Choi Chang-ho
The Liar and His Lover
Bass player
Butterfly
Yong Shik Choi
Karma
Kim Beon-jun
Memories of the Alhambra
Agent A
Master
President Jin's Pawns
Prison Playbook
Kim Je-hyeok
Good News
Ryeo Dol-chan
The Price of Confession
Baek Dong-hun
Phantom
Kaito Takahara
Persona
Jung-woo
Six Flying Dragons
Yi Ji-ran
Racket Boys
Lee Jae-jung
Chimera
Cha Jae-hwan
By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture
Lee Chan-woo
Persona: Sulli
Self
The Scarecrow
Kang Tae-ju
The Unfair
Jo Goo-hwan's assistant
The Game Caterers
Self
Lobby
Golf field owner
God of War
Kim Yoon-hoo
Whenever Possible
Self
You Quiz on the Block
Self
Tristes Tropiques
SNL Korea
Self - Host
Whales and I
Narrator (voice)
The Cherry Orchard
Gulf of Aden
K.O. Club
우리_사이
Whales and I
Self - Narrator (voice)