The year she turned 26, she debuted as Nam Joo-yeon in tvN’s Cheese in the Trap. In February 2017, KBS2’s The Gentlemen of Wolgyesu Tailor Shop ended, and in December she played the secretary Ma Bo-na in Jugglers. In 2018, she was cast in SBS’s Wok of Love.
In 2020, she was cast in MBC’s The Spies Who Loved Me. In December 2021, OCN’s Chimera ended; she had played Kim Hyo-kyung.
The breakthrough yearThe year she turned 32, she appeared in SBS’s Again My Life and Watcha’s Ultimate Weapon Alice, and on Dec. 30 she began to become known as Choi Hye-jeong in Part 1 of Netflix’s The Glory.
In March 2023, Part 2 was released, and she started KBS2’s The Real Has Come! In April she appeared on Omniscient Interfering View. In November 2024, she appeared in J.Y. Park’s “Easy Lover” music video.
In January 2025, she played Wongyeong in tvN and TVING’s The Queen Who Crowns, and the film Lobby opened in April. In December she won the Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries at the APAN Star Awards.
In January 2026, the film Sister opened, and in March she appeared as Lee Yang-mi in ENA’s Climax.
Cha Joo-young (born 1990) debuted in 2016, the year she turned 26, in tvN’s Cheese in the Trap, and became known on Dec 30, 2022, the year she turned 32, as Choi Hye-jeong in Netflix’s The Glory. In 2025, the year she turned 35, she won the Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries at the APAN Star Awards for The Queen Who Crowns.
Ages are by calendar year (the year minus the birth year), birthdays aside.