Seo Hyun-chul

In this Korean name, the family name is Seo.

Seo Hyun-chul (Korean: 서현철, born 19 May 1965)^[1] is a South Korean theater, film and television actor. He is known for his supporting roles in several television series and films^[2] notably, the medical drama Good Doctor (2013), the film Mission: Possible (2021), and the action-comedy series Good Boy (2025).^[3][4]

Seo Hyun-chul
Born	(1965-05-19) May 19, 1965 (age 60) Seosan, Chungchongnam-do, South Korea
Other names	Seo Hyun-cheol
Occupations	Film actor Theater actor
Years active	1994–present
Agent	Other Entity
Spouse	Jung Jae-eun
Korean name
Hangul	서현철
Hanja	徐鉉哲
Revised Romanization	Seo Hyeoncheol
McCune–Reischauer	Sŏ Hyŏnch'ŏl

Career

Seo debuted in 1994 ln play Hwang Gu-do. Since then he has appeared in about 110 stage and musical plays. He made his TV debut in 2010 series Cinderella's Stepsister, whereas his film debut was in the film Finding Mr. Destiny in the same year.^[2]

Seo appeared on talk show Radio Star thrice in year 2015, 2017 and 2019 in episodes 426, 513 and 648 respectively.^[5][6] In 2021 he appeared in tvN's apocalyptic thriller Happiness along with his wife Jung Jae-eun.^[7] In 2022 Seo was cast in JTBC TV series Thirty-Nine as father of one of the main leads.^[8]

Personal life

Seo married actress Jung Jae-eun after 2 years of dating at the age of 45.^[9]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2010	Finding Mr. Destiny	Customer 2		[10]
2013	The Gifted Hands	Chief detective Go
2017	The Bros	Eldest grandson	Cameo	[3]
2019	Black Money	Im Seung-man
2021	Mission: Possible	Detective squad chief		[11]
2024	Pilot	Fellow captain	Cameo

Television series

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2010	Cinderella's Stepsister	Kang-sook's true love		[12]
	KBS Drama Special: "Spy Trader Kim Chul-soo's Recent Condition"	Park	Season 1, episode 10
	The King of Legend	Yeom-bo
2011	KBS Drama Special: "Perfect Spy"	Chief	Season 1, Episode 6
	Our Women	Choi Doo-ho
	KBS Drama Special: "Identical Criminals"	Choi Kyeong-rok	Season 2, episode 11
2012	Moon Embracing the Sun	Lord Shim San		[13]
	The Secret of Birth	Go Eun-pyo		b
2013	Good Doctor	Byung-soo		[14]
	Golden Rainbow	Kang Dong-pal		[15]
2014	KBS Drama Special: "First Birthday"	Seong-gi	Season 5, episode 2
	Wonderful Days	Han Bin / Hwang Gil-sang		[16]
	Diary of a Night Watchman	Min Joong-seo
2015	The Jingbirok: A Memoir of Imjin War	Yi Il
	KBS Drama Special: "The Wind Blows to the Hope"	Moon Jong-dae	Season 6, episode 2
	Assembly	Seo Dong-jae
	Six Flying Dragons	Jang Sam-bong		[17]
	Sweet, Savage Family	Seo Chul-joong
2016	Jang Yeong-sil	Choi Bok
	One More Happy Ending	Ward official
	Wanted	Kim Sang-sik		[18]
	The Good Wife	Son Byung-ho
	Cinderella with Four Knights	Eun Gi-sang		[19]
	The Sound of Your Heart	Vice Head of Division 5
	My Fair Lady	Kong Gil-ho
2017	Circle	Detective Hong Jin-hong father		[20]
	Manhole	Soo-jin's father
	Revolutionary Love	Kim Ki-sub		[21]
2018	A Poem a Day	Yang Myung-cheol		[22]
	Sunny Again Tomorrow	Lee Sang-hoon		[23]
2019	KBS Drama Special: "Home Sweet Home"	Jo Hyeon-seok	Season 10, episode 1
	Melting Me Softly	Hwang Gab-soo		[24]
	Woman of 9.9 Billion	Oh Dae-yong		[25]
2020	Men Are Men	Seo Ho-joon		[26]
2021	Happiness	Yi-hyun's father		[7]
2022	Forecasting Love and Weather	Chae Yoo-jin's father	Special appearance
	Thirty-Nine	Jeong Chan-young's father		[8]
2022–2023	The First Responders	Baek Cham	Season 1–2	[27]
2023	My Lovely Liar	Jang Joong-gyu		[28]
	Welcome to Samdal-ri	Jo Pan-sik		[29]
2024	A Virtuous Business			[30]
2025	Good Boy	Hwang Gyeong-cheol		[31]

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2023	Boyhood	Jang Hak-su		[32]

Television show

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2023	Listen, See, It's Okay	Cast Member	Television, drama, sound	[33]

Theater

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Theatrical Enthusiasm - Turn off the lights, please		[34]
2004	Theatrical Enthusiasm - Fantastic	Henry
2005	Stone in the Pocket	Theater actor
2006	Nasaengmun	Hairdresser
	Fantastic	Henry
2007	Country boy scat	Henry
	Noise Off	Roger
2008	Radio Star	Bureau chief
2009	Samdobong Beauty Story	Noh Noh Sul
	Story of a Thief	Less old thief
2015	University of Laughter	Censor	[35]
2021	Special Liar	Stanley Gardner	[36]
	Frankenstein	Stephan	[37]
2022–2023	Old Weekly Song	Josef Mashkan	[38]