Jihae

About Jihae

Jihae is a South Korea-born actress, musician and multimedia artist. She will recur on HBO's Emmy winning drama Succession Season 3 as Berry Schneider, a public relations consultant.She guest starred in the 2020 Season Two debut episode of Netflix series Altered Carbon, in which she played the torch singer in the compelling opening sequence performing the title track of her latest album 'Illusion of You'. This song, produced by Dave Stewart (Eurythmics and Songland) is also played at the end credits. Her performance of 'I Got You Under My Skin' by Cole Porter is also featured in the opening episode.In 2018 she starred in Peter Jackson's Mortal Engines as Anna Fang, a fierce resistance leader in the epic dystopian saga. David Ehrlich of 'Indiewire' raved about Jihae's performance. She garnered critical acclaim by Rolling Stone who claimed, "Jihae has an illegal amount of screen presence. " V Magazine called her "a real life superhero." The film, co-starring Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, and Robert Sheehan, was released worldwide by MRC and Universal Pictures.Jihae starred in the television series Mars in which she played a set of twin sisters: one the commander of the first human colony on Mars, the other, the Secretary General of Space Agency on earth. Produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, the show's second season aired on Nat Geo TV in November 2018 across 171 countries.Jihae's professional path began with a BA degree in Political Science at Emory University, following the footsteps of her diplomat father. However, with a trained opera singer and piano teacher for a mother, Jihae's passion for music and songwriting led her to pursue a career as an independent artist after graduation.On Human Rights Day 2018, she released a single called 'Lets Come Together.' The song was written and performed by Jihae and was arranged by Oscar winning composer/producer Teese Gohl also performing on piano. The choir is sung by the students and faculty at The Putney School. 'Let's Come Together' is a song to give a voice to the displaced people around the world. 100% songwriter's proceeds went to International Medical Corps' program for Children and Women's Health Including Gender Violence in over 80 countries around the world.Jihae launched her record label and released her first album, 'My Heart Is An Elephant' in 2007 featuring collaboration with Lenny Kravitz on guitar and bass and filmmaker Michel Gondry on drums. Her fourth and latest LP, 'Illusion of You' features her co-write with the legendary Leonard Cohen and Dave Stewart on the song, 'It Just Feels.' Illusion was lauded, 'Beautiful, mystical and poetic' by the New York Times. The Wall Street Journal described it as 'Downtown cool from Lou Reed to Deborah Harry to The Strokes all in one.'Jihae wrote and produced a multimedia rock opera based on her third album, 'Fire Burning Rain' directed by Academy Award-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley. She also curated a dozen artists for Fire Burning Rain group art exhibit including Anna Gaskell, Marco Brambilla and Ouattara Watts. She has performed at the London Olympics, Cannes Film Festival and the United Nations. In addition to donating her time and performance to a variety of nonprofits, including Hillary Clinton's Hours Against Hate, No Kid Hungry, and Acumen Funds, Jihae founded Let's Come Together, a creative platform to unite people for human rights....

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South Korea-born singer Jihae discusses her 'accidental' start in acting

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Brian Cox Has (Almost) Nothing In Common With His 'Succession' Character

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