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Go Soo (; born October 4, 1978), also known as Ko Soo, is a South Korean actor. He has appeared in television series such as Piano, Green Rose and Will It Snow for Christmas?, as well as the films White Night and The Front Line.
Go made his big screen debut as a drug crime officer in 2004's Some, in which he performed his own stunts and was later recognized as Best New Actor at the Grand Bell Awards. Go reunited with Ad Madness co-star Park Ye-jin in TV series When A Man Loves A Woman in the same year. In 2005, he starred in the revenge drama Green Rose, which was shot on location in China and Korea. He played a simple man who falls in love with a rich woman and gets accused of a crime he did not commit. Then in the romantic comedy Marrying a Millionaire, Go played a delivery man who is asked by a TV producer to act like a rich bachelor to attract several women on a televised reality dating show.
In 2009, he starred in the dark mystery film White Night, based on the Japanese novel Byakuyakō by Keigo Higashino. Go said he was "completely absorbed by the intriguing storyline." Go then made his television comeback in the melodrama Will It Snow for Christmas?, a tale of rekindled childhood love penned by renowned TV writer Lee Kyung-hee. He described his character as "hurt by love and tries to overcome that pain."
His next film Haunters, in which he played the only man immune to a psychic's supernatural powers, was a box office hit in 2010. On May 13, 2011, he signed under the management of Lee Byung-hun known as BH Entertainment. He next played a soldier in the Korean War-set The Front Line, then a grieving firefighter in the 2012 romance drama Love 911. Afterwards, he collaborated with the makers of The Chaser for Empire of Gold, a TV series about the power struggle within a rich family living through Korea's turbulent economy of the 1990s, produced by SBS; in this series, he played an antihero. Later that year, he starred in melodrama film Way Back Home, playing the devastated husband of a woman wrongfully accused of drug smuggling. Go said the reason he chose the film was because he wanted to work with acclaimed actress Jeon Do-yeon, and that through his character he "was able to tackle the challenge of internal and external change".
In 2014, Go appeared in two . Directed by Kang Je-gyu, Awaiting is about a married couple separated for sixty years by the division of North and South Korea. Awaiting was one of the four short films comprising Beautiful 2014, an anthology film project that premiered at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival. Meanwhile, Myohyangsangwan ("View of Myohyangsan"), which depicted the rendezvous of a South Korean painter and a North Korean waitress in a North Korean restaurant, is a collaboration by Moon Kyung-won and Jeon Joon-ho, and combined a theatrical plot, experimental imagery, dance and performance art. He then starred in the period film The Royal Tailor, in the role of an upstart new designer whose talent and instincts challenges the traditional master artisan of royal attire.
In June 2015, Go Soo has amicably parted ways with BH Entertainment, and joined a new agency named Yubon Company founded by his previous manager at BH Entertainment. He then returned to BH Entertainment in February 2017.
Go made his small screen comeback after three years in MBC's 55th-founding anniversary historical drama directed by a famed director Lee Byung-hoon, The Flower in Prison.
In 2017, Go starred in Lucid Dream, a psychological thriller in which Go played a former journalist who attempts to find his kidnapped son using . The same year, Go starred in The Tooth and the Nail, a film based on the 1955 mystery novel by Bill S. Ballinger in which a magician discovers the incinerated teeth and fingernails of his missing butler. He next starred in period epic film The Fortress, where he worked with his manager Lee Byung-hun.
In 2018, Go was cast in the medical drama Heart Surgeons as a cardiothoracic surgery resident trying to save his mother in need of a heart transplant.
| View of Mount Myohyang | South Korean painter | Short film | |
| The Royal Tailor | Lee Gong-jin | ||
| The Tooth and the Nail | Lee Suk-jin / Choi Seung-man | ||
| The Fortress | Seo Nal-soi | ||
| Jump | Go Soo | ||
| My Funky Family | |||
| Nonstop | Go Soo | ||
| Mom and Sister | Jang Kyung-bin | ||
| Marrying a Millionaire | Kim Young-hoon | ||
| "Pig Man" | Noise | |
| "Letter" | Position | |
| "A Sad Gift" | Kim Jang-hoon | |
| "I Still Bite My Lips" | Lee Soo-young | |
| "Left Alone" | ||
| "Burying My Face in Tears" | Jang Na-ra | |
| 2006 | I Will Be Happy | Poetry readings |
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| 2016 | Grand Prize (Daesang) | The Flower in Prison | ||||
| Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Serial Drama | ||||||
| 2023 | Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Serial Drama | |||||
| Excellence Award, Actor in a Short Drama | Drama Stage: Summer, Love Machine, Blues | |||||
| 2010 | Best New Actor | White Night | ||||
| 2011 | Popular Star Award | The Front Line | ||||
| Best Actor | ||||||
| 2016 | Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Special Project Drama | Flowers of the Prison | ||||
| Popularity Award | ||||||
| 2002 | Excellence Award, Actor in a Drama Special | Age of Innocence | ||||
| Top 10 Stars | ||||||
| Top Excellence Award, Actor | ||||||
| 2003 | Excellence Award, Actor in a Drama Special | My Fair Lady | ||||
| 2005 | Excellence Award, Actor in a Special Planning Drama | Green Rose | ||||
| Top 10 Stars | Green Rose / Marrying a Millionaire | |||||
| Top Excellence Award, Actor | ||||||
| 2013 | Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Drama Special | Empire of Gold | ||||
| 2018 | Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Wednesday-Thursday Drama | Heart Surgeons | ||||
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