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Yoo Teo (born April 11, 1981 in Cologne, Germany) is a German-South Korean actor.
Yoo Teo, also known by the Western name Teo Yoo, was born in Cologne on April 11, 1981 as the son of South Korean guest workers. He was a passionate basketball player in his youth, but gave it up after an injury and focused on acting. He went to the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. Yoo speaks fluent English, German and Korean. He has appeared in productions in various countries. At the beginning of his career, he had several supporting roles in South Korean films, including One on One (2014) by Kim Ki-duk.
In 2015, he played one of the leading roles in the American production Seoul Searching by Korean-American director Benson Lee. The film is about young Koreans who grew up abroad and want to get to know their Korean heritage. Yoo plays Klaus Kim from Hamburg. He has also appeared in the science fiction film Equals, the Vietnamese film Bitcoin Heist (2016) and the Thai film Ruk Kong Rao (2017).
In 2018, he played the lead role of Soviet rock musician Wiktor Zoi, the son of a Korean and a Russian, in Kirill Serebrennikov's Leto, which took him into competition at the Cannes International Film Festival. Yoo does not speak Russian and memorized the Russian lyrics phonetically for the role.
Yoo said he considers himself Korean and has always wanted to act in South Korean films, but his Korean was not fluent for a long time. In 2019, he played the lead role in the film Vertigo alongside Chun Woo-hee.
In the summer of 2024, Yoo Teo became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Most Popular Teo Yoo Trailers
Total trailers found: 24
02 June 2023
Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
29 June 2022
From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae.
25 May 2006
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity.
05 February 2016
To catch Interpol's most-wanted hacker, special Agent Dada must assemble a team of criminals with various special skillsets.
01 December 2021
“To me films are an imaginary world where emotion comes into play.” YOO Teo traveled to Belgium to make his movie but he ended up being locked down due to COVID-19.
15 July 2015
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
29 September 2020
A debt collector who looks intimidating, but actually has a warm heart, ends up becoming the guardian of a child, who has been left behind as collateral by her illegal immigrant mother.
17 October 2024
Two detectives in need; Myung-deuk looks after gang and takes bribes for his sick daughter; Dong-hyeok helps Myung-deuk to settle his gambling debts.
28 February 2013
An odd director leaves for Hollywood to shoot a film via Skype and cellphones. 14 actors and actresses are devastated after being dumped by the director.
14 February 2017
The Moment tells the story of three couples in the romantic city of the New York, London and Seoul.
22 May 2014
On May 9th, a female high school student was brutally murdered. There are 7 suspects and 7 shadows that terrorize them.
20 May 2012
A young woman in modern-day Shanghai whose chance encounter with a stranger moves her to divulge a deep-seated secret.
10 February 2021
Four different couples have a romantic week over New Year's Eve. Both coming out of failed marriages, Ji-ho and Hyo-young are not open to the possibility of new love, while Jin-ah heads to the other side of globe and encounters Jae-hun.
14 February 2017
Included in the 2017 Thai anthology film, The Moment.
29 February 2012
A writer looking for inspiration finds a perfect muse in a girl. After much work, he makes her his girlfriend.
25 November 2015
Ra-hee is ready for the real world. She has graduated from a respectable college and begins to apply for full-time jobs but is rejected by every company that she applies to.
14 April 2005
Sean deals drugs but can he prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps?
07 June 2018
Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika.
05 May 2010
About the lifestyle and dreams of a gypsy-street musician named Gustav Zerga.
15 November 2012
A legendary assassin takes on an elimination task targeting the famous pop singer. She succeeds in kidnapping the singer but is hesitant to kill him, while he is hesitant to run away.
13 November 2019
A prosecutor is falsely accused of sexual assault in a suicide note from a woman that he is convinced was actually murdered.
17 October 2019
Haunted by past wounds from her parents, Seo-young suffers from tinnitus and vertigo which started when she had moved to her new office in the sky a few months ago.
30 January 2015
In the 1980s a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers who meet at a Seoul summer camp to learn what it means to be Korean.
10 December 2009
When six famous Korean actresses gather for a Vogue fashion photo shoot, egos collide in funny and touching ways in this ingenious mockumentary, where all actresses involved play (not so) fictional versions of themselves.
