Rain

He is a South Korean pop singer, dancer, model, actor, businessperson, and designer who has released seven albums (six Korean, one Japanese) and 19 singles. He won the KBS Best New Actor award for his role in the drama Sang Doo! Let's Go To School. In 2004, Rain won the KBS Excellence in Acting award for his role in the drama Full House. After starring in A Love To Kill, he acted in his first Korean film, I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006), which won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. Rain has acted in the American films Speed Racer (2008) and Ninja Assassin (2009).

In 2007, Rain left the management of JYP Entertainment and started his own company, J. Tune Entertainment.

Rain spent most of his childhood living with his parents and younger sister, Jeong Hanna, near Hongik University. Despite being an introverted and shy child, he discovered he had a passion for dance when he performed in a talent show for Sungmoon Junior High School. Rain initially had a difficult time balancing dance and academics and received low grades during the beginning of junior high because of his frequent dance practices. He decided to follow his passion and attended Anyang High School of Arts in Anyang, Gyeonggi, where he received his first formal instruction in acting and was able to continue dancing as well. Rain again found he could not focus on both dance and his studies in acting; he was truant on several occasions.

Rain lost his mother as she struggled with diabetes and died in 2000. Within that same year, Rain was recruited as a trainee for JYP Entertainment, led by recording artist and producer Park Jin-Young in 2000. In a CNN interview, however, he recalled being repeatedly rejected because of his looks: "In fact, I was told after one audition that my singing and dancing was great but I didn't make it because I didn't have double eyelids."During the early years of training, Rain was a backup dancer

Filmography

Drama:

   * 2002, SBS: Orange as himself

   * 2003, KBS2: Sang Doo! Let's Go To School as Cha Sang-doo

   * 2004, KBS2: Full House as Lee Young Jae

   * 2005, SBS: Banjun Drama

   * 2005, KBS2: A Love To Kill as Kang Bok Gu

   * 2010, KBS2: 도망자 Fugitive

Film:

   * 2006: I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK as Park Il Sun

   * 2008: Speed Racer as Taejo Togokahn

   * 2009: Ninja Assassin as Raizo

Discography:

Korean studio albums

   * 2002: Bad Guy

   * 2003: How to Avoid The Sun

   * 2004: It's Raining

   * 2006: Rain's World

   * 2008: Rainism

   * 2010: Back To The Basic

Japanese studio albums

   * 2006: Eternal Rain

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_%28entertainer%29