Who is Squid Game Lee Jung-jae? Insights on His Record at the 2022 Emmy Awards!

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Lee Jung-jae is the first South-Korean actor to win Prime Time Emmy Award.
He won the best lead actor in the drama series Emmy for the role of Seong Gi-hun in Netflix’s Squid Game on September 12, 2022.
Learn who is Lee Jung-jae and his journey to set the history of Emmy.

The Squid Game star, Lee Jung-jae, 49, surpassed other actors in the Race to Best Male Actor in drama series in Primetime Emmy awards!

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Lee Jung-jae becomes the first South Korean actor to receive an Emmy

The main protagonist of Netflix’s survival drama Squid Game, Seong Gi-hun bagged the best actor for the male lead in the drama series. It’s the first trophy for a first Asian/ South Korean star to snatch the most prestigious award in acting in this category.

He stood out among the other 2022 nominees, Ozark‘s Jason Bateman, Succession’s Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong, Better Call Saul‘s Bob Odenkirk, and Severance‘s Adam Scott. While the Emmy is premiering at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on September 12, 2022.

Lee Jung-jae in his thank you speech after holding awards from the award presenter Angela Bassett and Ariana DeBose donned in purple and yellow gowns told,

“Thank you so much, first of all I’d like to thank God above. Thank you to the television academy, thank you to Netflix, thank you to director Hwang [Dong-hyuk] for realistic problem we all face come to life to creatively on the screen with a great script and amazing visuals. Thank you Squid Game team!”

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Primetime Emmy nominations for the Squid Game! Is it returning for season 2?

Squid Game is the first foreign language series, Korean to be nominated for outstanding drama series. A total of 14 nominations are given to this series while its biggest competitors for the year are Severance, Barry, and Dopesick.

The show is returning for the second season s announced on June 2022 while the record-setting Squid Game cast Lee Jung-jae is excited about the upcoming storyline. He was vocal about his expectation for the second series when he confessed,

“I hope there’s some sort of twist that’ll be exciting and surprising for me and the viewers. If it was predictable, it would be no fun.”

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Who is Lee Jung-jae?

Lee Jung-jae is a multi-award-winning South Korean actor and filmmaker. His film credits include romantic films such as Il Mare (2000) and Over the Rainbow (2002), and the melodrama Last Present (2001). Also, roles in the heist film The Thieves (2012), the crime thriller New World (2013), and many more. Read more bio…

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