Lee El Net Worth (2024): Height, Age, Real Name, Bio

Alex | Last Updated On March 20th, 2022

Lee El is a very famous South Korean celebrity. People started to love her character and recognized her as Joo Eun-Hye for her outstanding performance in the movie “Inside Men”. Furthermore, She is famous for starring in an MBC series “Monster” and in “ Guardian” a TV series.

Lee El's Net Worth

As of 2024, Lee El's net worth is estimated to be $3.5 million.

Net Worth$3.5 million
Given NameKim Ji-Hyun (김지현)
Famous NameLee El
Source(s) of FameActress
Age42
Date of BirthAugust 26, 1982
Place of BirthSeol, South Korea
Height5'5"
RelationshipsSingle, ,
Social Links

Early Life

Kim Ji Hyun, better known as Lee El, was born on August 26, 1982, in the beautiful city of Soel, South Korea. She has never revealed any information regarding her parents or siblings. She was not much into education and had a hard time in high school. After completing high school, she had done Performing Arts from Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, and started her life as an actor.

Career Highlights

She first appeared on March 14, 2009, in a K-Drama “Cheer Up On Love” and on August 2, 2009, made a debut on the big screen in the movie “Secret”. After that, she acted in many renowned Korean dramas, series, and films.

Lee El had a career boom in 2015 when he played a supporting role of an ill-fated lover of Lee Byung Hun in the movie “Inside Men” and imprinted his name on people’s minds. Another remarkable supporting performance in a series, “Monster”, and guest appearance in “It’s Okay, That’s Love” made her a prominent actor in Korean Dramas.

As a result, she offered many notable supporting roles in different movies and dramas, her credits to films including The call, Heaven: To the land of happiness, and, She died. She also performed a leading role in “What a man wants”.

Her best-rated Korean dramas are The Princess’s Man, Black, Goblin, A Korean Odyssey, Swine Escape, When the Devil Calls Your Name, and White Christmas.

She is nominated for the Best Supporting Actress award in Inside Men and The Call, Golden Acting Award in Monster, and Excellence Award in Matrimonial Chaos in recognition for her brilliant acting.

Twenty Five And Twenty One, Forecasting Love and weather, and Thirty Nine is the ongoing best-rated projects of Lee El. In addition to this, she is currently doing superb acting in tons of other Korean dramas and has signed many upcoming projects too.

Personal Life 

Kim Ji-Hyun is 40 years old, still gorgeous, and is currently single. She is very introverted so we couldn’t find out more about her personal life.

She loves animals and appreciates the breathtaking beauty of nature. She usually likes to spend her idle hours with her adorable cats and strolling around the landscapes.

Social Media


Lee El looks stunning in her black and white Instagram Display Picture has 112 thousand followers on Instagram. You can mostly see posts of her fluffy, lovable cats and dogs on her Instagram. By her posts, she also seems diet-conscious yet loves to eat healthy meals.

Lee owns a YouTube channel with 2.69 thousand subscribers but is not currently active on it. She mostly posted vlogs wandering around the countryside and enjoying her breathing spells also uploaded vlogs about her upcoming projects.

Summary

Lee El (Kim Ji-Hyun) is a versatile actress in the Korean movies and dramas industry. She has starred in dozens of popular Korean dramas and films, and many of her upcoming dramas are in the pipeline. She is well recognized as a supporting artist, but her die hard fans also want her to come into sight as a leading artist. Her primary source of income is acting, and her approximately net worth for the year 2021 is $ 3.5 million.

Lee El has sometimes been associated with other Actors such as Im Won-hee, Shawnee Free Jones, Bobby Di Cicco, Richard Reeves, Hugh O'Connor, Gil Gerard, Sigrid Valdis, Halo Meadows, and Rozina.