Shin Minah born April 5th 1984 with the birth name Yang Minah 양민아 is a popular South Korean actress model Her family consists of a father mother older sister brother In middle school she took a picture with her friends on a school picnic and sent the photo to the teen magazine KiKi 키키 From that picture she was chosen as a model for the magazine Afterward she would first appear in commercials and music videos In 2001 she made her acting debut in the movie Volcano High and would appear again two years later in Madeleine Her breakout performance would occur in the 2005 gangster film A Bittersweet Life Her character Heesoo displayed a mixture of purity and maturity that captivated South Korean audiences Since that time she has received an assortment of acting offers from top Korean directors and expanded her acting repertoire by selecting various types of roles from the martialarts comedy My Mighty Princess to 70s gogo dancer Go Go 70s to the smaller independent film Sisters on the Road More recently in 2009 Shin Minah participated in the project Miracle Blue which is a collaboration between herself the Korean alternative band Loveholic and the fashion design company Calvin Klein In the music video Miracle Blue in which she sings she also performs as various characters displaying childlike innocence to the sexy blondehaired singer