Lee Solar-kyun, a South Korean actor who starred within the Oscars’ 2020 best possible image winner “Parasite,” died Wednesday morning, in keeping with the Related Press and the South Korean information company Yonhap. He used to be 48.
He used to be discovered lifeless in a automotive in a park in central Seoul, in keeping with the AP. Police were searching for Lee after his circle of relatives claimed he wrote a suicide be aware and left house early on Wednesday.
Lee had lately been below police investigation for alleged unlawful drug use. South Korea’s Incheon Metropolitan Police Company were investigating Lee and 7 other folks over alleged drug use; Lee claimed to be the sufferer of blackmail through someone else being investigated and allegedly misplaced loads of hundreds of greenbacks to extortion. In keeping with Yonhap, police wondered Lee thrice for his alleged use of marijuana and different medication on the house of a hostess of a high-end bar in Seoul a number of occasions previous this yr. He claimed to had been tricked and didn’t know what he used to be taking.
In 2020, “Parasite” gained 4 Academy Awards, together with best possible image, director for Bong Joon Ho, authentic screenplay and world characteristic movie for South Korea. It additionally gained the Palm d’Or on the Cannes Movie Pageant and used to be the primary South Korean movie to do succeed in the distinction. The “Parasite” forged, together with Lee, gained a Display Actors Guild award for remarkable efficiency through a forged in a movement image.
Within the movie, Lee performed Park Dong-ik, the daddy of the rich Park circle of relatives who unknowingly hires participants of the scamming, lower-class Kim circle of relatives into his house to assist together with his kids and run his family. When the ruse is in spite of everything printed, Kim Ki-taek (Tune Kang-ho) kills Mr. Park in a are compatible of rage at his daughter’s party.
After emerging to status in “Parasite,” Lee starred within the Apple TV+ collection “Dr. Mind,” its first South Korean collection, and used to be nominated for best possible actor on the 2022 World Emmy Awards. He additionally starred in South Korean tasks like “Payback,” “Diary of a Prosecutor,” “My Mister,” “Killing Romance,” “Kingmaker” and lots of extra within the 2000s and 2010s.
Lee used to be an overly acquainted determine in Korean cinema. In Cannes this yr he seemed in “Undertaking Silence” and “Sleep.” The latter had its industrial liberate in September and crowned the Korean field administrative center charts for 3 weeks.
