Kwon Hee-deok

Kwon Hee-duk (10 April 1956 – 16 March 2018) was a South Korean voice actress and writer. She developed her skills as a voice actress when she was young and was involved in more than 3,000 works in commercials, dramas and films during her professional career. Kwon authored a series of collection readings containing 14 lyrical poems from the two Koreas and an essay collection.

Biography On 10 April 1956, Kwon was born in Daejeon, and was brought up a Protestant. She developed her voice acting skills from an early age, taking on the role of master of ceremonies for a children's programme when she was in the second grade of elementary school. In 1976, she passed the Broadcasting Voice Actor Recruitment Test against 700 competitors, making her debut not long. Ingrid Bergman, Lim Chung-ha, and Catherine Deneuve. She was the dubbed voice of the protagonist Lara in Doctor Zhivago, which earned her national recognition. In 1996, she won the Grand Prize in the radio acting section at the Korea Broadcasting Awards. and was the CEO of Seoul Sound Design. Overall, she was involved in more than 3,000 works in commercials, dramas and films during her professional career.

She was a disability campaigner, and held a fundraising dinner show to raise funding for disabled people's welfare. Kwon was married to the former director of the Myeongdong Arts Theater Koo Ja-heung, with whom she had two children. she died suddenly of an acute myocardial infarction that gradually worsened whilst she was in hospital on 16 March 2018. Kwon's funeral took place at St. Mary's Hospital in Seoul three days later.