Park Hae-soo
Park Hae-soo (born November 21, 1981) is a South Korean actor. He is best known worldwide for portraying Cho Sang-woo in the first season of the Netflix hit series Squid Game (2021), which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Park started his career in theater and has played a large number of leading and supporting roles in plays and musicals. He subsequently expanded his career into film and television and achieved his breakthrough with Prison Playbook (2017–2018), one of the highest-rated Korean dramas on cable television. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with Netflix, including Narco-Saints (2022), Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area (2022), Karma (2025), The Price of Confession (2025), and The Great Flood (2025).
Acting
TV
Squid Game
as Cho Sang-woo / Player 218
2021
TV
Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area
as Berlin
2022
Movie
The Great Flood
as Son Hee-jo
2025
Movie
Time to Hunt
as Han
2020
Movie
Yaksha: Ruthless Operations
as Han Ji-hoon
2022
Movie
The Pirates
as Hwang Joong-geun
2014
TV
The Legend of the Blue Sea
as Hong Dong-pyo
2016
TV
Narco-Saints
as Choi Chang-ho
2022
TV
The Liar and His Lover
as Bass player
2017
TV
Butterfly
as Yong Shik Choi
2025
TV
Memories of the Alhambra
as Agent A
2018
Movie
Master
as President Jin's Pawns
2016
TV
Prison Playbook
as Kim Je-hyeok
2017
TV
Karma
as Kim Beon-jun
2025
Movie
Good News
as Ryeo Dol-chan
2025
TV
The Price of Confession
as Baek Dong-hun
2025
Movie
Phantom
as Kaito Takahara
2023
TV
Persona
as Jung-woo
2019
TV
Racket Boys
as Lee Jae-jung
2021
TV
Six Flying Dragons
as Yi Ji-ran
2015
TV
Chimera
as Cha Jae-hwan
2021
Movie
By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture
as Lee Chan-woo
2019
TV
Persona: Sulli
as Self
2023
Movie
The Unfair
as Jo Goo-hwan's assistant
2015