Lee Sun-kyun, a South Korean actor who starred within the 2020 Oscar Best Picture winner ‘Parasite,’ died Wednesday morning, Variety reported citing the Associated Press and the South Korean information company Yonhap. Lee Sun-kyun was 48.

He was found lifeless in a automotive in a central Seoul park, as per Associated Press. Police have been trying to find Lee after his household reported he left house early Wednesday with a suicide be aware. Lee has not too long ago been the topic of an investigation by the police for potential unlawful drug use. The Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency in South Korea had been investigating Lee and 7 different folks for alleged drug use; Lee claimed to have been the sufferer of blackmail by one other individual being probed and had misplaced tons of of 1000’s of {dollars} on account of the extortion.

According to Yonhap, authorities questioned Lee 3 times as not too long ago as final Saturday for his alleged utilization of marijuana and different medicine earlier this 12 months on the home of a hostess of a high-end bar in Seoul. He acknowledged he had been duped and had no thought what he was ingesting. ‘Parasite’ received 4 Academy Awards in 2020, together with Best Picture, Director for Bong Joon-ho, authentic screenplay, and South Korean worldwide function movie. It additionally received the Palme d’Or on the Cannes Film Festival, making it the primary South Korean movie to attain the honour. Lee and the forged of “Parasite” earned a Screen Actors Guild award for excellent efficiency by a forged in a movement image.

Lee portrayed Park Dong-ik, the patriarch of the rich Park household who mistakenly employs members of the fraudulent, lower-class Kim household to help in caring for his youngsters and working his family. When the hoax is lastly found, Kim Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho) kills Mr Park at his daughter’s birthday celebration in a match of wrath. Following his success in ‘Parasite,’ Lee starred in Apple TV+’s first South Korean sequence, ‘Dr Brain,’ and was nominated for greatest actor on the 2022 International Emmy Awards. In the 2000s and 2010s, he additionally appeared in South Korean movies resembling ‘Payback,’ ‘Diary of a Prosecutor,’ ‘My Mister,’ ‘Killing Romance,’ ‘Kingmaker,’ and plenty of others.

Lee was a well known determine in Korean cinema. This 12 months in Cannes, he starred in ‘Project Silence’ and ‘Sleep.’ The latter was launched in September and topped the Korean field workplace for 3 weeks. Lee leaves behind his spouse, actress Jeon Hye-jin, and their two youngsters. (ANI)

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