Lee Yoo-young Looks for Brighter Fare After Hit Crime Series

Lee Yoo-younghas made her first TV appearance in time slip crime drama"Tunnel - Drama", which recently wrapped up with the highest ratings in the history of cable channel OCN.

Lee had no ambitions when she was 20. She gave up college and worked part-time in a beauty salon, but then decided to go back to her studies as she felt sorry for her mother. She entered Korea National University of Arts in 2010 and studied acting.

A student film changed her life. "I saw myself on the screen in class. It was the first time I saw myself acting as an audience, and that was the moment I was seriously thinking about being an actress", she recalls.

Before long she had won best actress at the Milan International Film Festival for"Late Spring"in 2014, where she played a poor country woman who works as a nude model for a frustrated sculptor.

She has appeared in several films since including"The Treacherous"and"Yourself and Yours"and now ended her first TV series.

"To play my character, I studied the psychology of criminals, reading profiling books", she said. "Now I think want to show a brighter side of myself in my next project".