Cah Kwang

Cah Kwang (born 19th August, 1994) is a Hwangji Actor. He started his career with a number of TV shows, mostly of the romance genre before coming into mass prominence in the war drama "Glory" in 2014 as the main character Senior Leftenant Su Du-Ho. Cah Hwang would later gain world-wide fame for his role as titular character of "Faust" which he would later reprise in the sequel "Lives", a role which would earn him a place as Hwangchu's most paid actor under 25.

He is also known for a variety of other films such as the drama My Role (2011), action thriller Sins (2014), comedy romance Oh no! I fell in love with a Demon (2016) as well as a number of television series such as police procedural Feedback (2015), modern fantasy Hotel de Sol (2021) and the comedy Leader of the People (2022). He also starred in a number of critically acclaimed movies such as Tan in which he starred as Tan Shin-Il during his early period in the Marines and earned Best Actor at the Royal Hwangji Arts and Performance Awards.

Early Life
Cah Kwang was born on the 19th August 1994 to Cah Seung, a school janitor and Mi Sook, a local accountant. Both his parents were Yao with most of his great grand parents having immigrated from Selengeria during the Great Kesh War as refugees. Cah would attend the local public school, having excelling in his studies and showing himself an apt student in most cases. However, he showedhis first flairs for acting during a number of school plays in which he would regularly take the main role. His parents would eventually divorce over financial issues, his mother and father remarrying as Kwang shifted between staying with his father and with his mother every few months. His mother would be killed in an accident with his step-father when a drunk driver crashed into their car, killing his mother instantly whilst his step-father was severely injured.

Kwang would eventually gain a scholarship at the King's Royal School of Arts after having auditioned and being hired to play in a minor role in the romance drama Three Kings and Queens (2008) and entered at 14. There Kwang would gain a reputation for a versatile set of acting skills, he took part in 7 student and indie films during the period of 2009-2011 notably including the war drama film Choices as well as appearing as extras in a number of notable films such as Together Forever, Freebie Highschool and a number of commercials for the rice snack brand Big Byil's Bites.

Beginnings (2011-2014)
Cah Kwang started his professional career, after having left University, in a number of indie and small television series. Most notable was My Role in which he starred as a billionaire, trying to grapple with the realities of his new found wealth. He also appeared in a number of television series, gaining a recurring role as the dentist Pyeon Suk in the comedy 6th Street as well as starring in episodes of Oh My!, Vigilance and SOU. He would attempt to audition for the role of Hyeong In-Su in Papa's hell though was turned down, however the director Rang Kwan recalled him and gave him the part of Pan Kyung-Sam which he would play for a total of 45 episodes of the show in a supporting role to the main cast. He left the show in 2018 due to increasing desires for him to play in more big budget films and television series.

Cah Kwang came to minor prominence in his role as the son of Bak Seungri in the fantasy romance film Where wings blow. For the role, Cah KWang alledgedly gained 10lbs of muscle in a month in order to play the role for which he was widely praised. Eogeum Chung-Cha of Movies4all noted that Cha Kwang brought "a sense of power, ruggedness and thuggery that was needed to balance out the more mellow performance of Wi Hyun-Jae" whilst Nam Jae-Hwa commented it as the "best supporting character I've seen from a romance film this year." Although the film was a modest success, grossing only $165 million to a production cost of $137 million, it gained Cha Kwang prominence for a tough persona for his early years.

He, notably, also came on as a contestant on game show Who gets it? where he specialised on marine biology. He would become the first actor to win on the show, donating a total of $300,000 to the charity For the Kids. He would also star as a contestant on the celebrity version of the singing game show With our Voices in which he was eliminated in the 5th round after having comedically inhaled helium to perform his song. Cah Kwang would later speak: "I would it would be funny to try and see if they would let me in with a voice like that, unfortunately I wasn't so lucky for that so I guess I'll have to settle with being known for having a funny voice on With our Voices."

Breakthrough (2014-2017)
Cah Kwang was announced to star in the role of Senior Leftenant Su Du-Ho in the 2014 TV drama series "Glory", the 2nd drama in the "War" trilogy directed and created by Rim Daewon. In it, he starred as the inexperienced and young platoon leader Su Du-Ho commanding his first unit during the turbulent times of Operation Brightspark in 1976. The drama was watched by millions with an peak viewership of 58.1% watching. The series was widely praised for it's use of visuals and sound, it's story and the difficult setting that it portrayed with an average score of 9.2/10 on Movies4All. Cah Kwang was heavily praised for his part in the film as Su Du-Ho with many noting that, despite the previous archtype of Kwang's characters being thuggish and villain-like, he showed himself to be very good at portraying an extremely emotional and morally conflicted character who had a sense of young innocence to him that became thrust into this conflict that was meant for older men. Pan Chin-Hae from The Dragon commented on Kwang's performance as "Flawed, just as it should've been" whilst Su Hae-Won from the Ochae First called it "a masterpiece of acting from someone so young". Kwang would later comment that he felt that the role of Su Du-Ho was his most memorable and his favourite. Cah Kwang, whilst finishing up the filming for Glory aduitioned for a role which called for a smart and assuming figure and demeanour. He would show himself to be amongst the best suited for a role he would later find out to be the eponymous drama deuteragonist for the movie Faust directed by Ya Kwang, the movie was about a mystical being who takes suicidal people and forces them to live the lives of others to gain an appreciation for their own lives. Cah Kwang came onto the film for a desire to get into the film scene, although Faust was relatively low budget, Cah Kwang wanted the opportunity to work under the direction of an experienced indie film director in Ya Kwang. The film would prove to be a massive success in theatres with nearly $241 million being made on the original $5 million budget. Osyul Productions gained the rights for distribution around Kesh and Artemia where it gained world wide success for it's portrayal of mental issues and it became particularly popular in Hwangchu which was suffering from high suicide rates. Cah Kwang initially joined the film, expecting the movie to flop and not be succeeded and was planning to audition for roles in Warriors of San and Saebil, however the massive success of the film and the positive reviews on his performance as Faust led him to sign a contract for 2 extra movies under Ya Kwang.

For his role as Faust, Cah Kwang was awarded a number of awards including "Best Supporting Actor" in the King's Arts and Royal Hwangji Arts and Performance Awards as well as a number of accolades from smaller awards committees such as the Hwangji Drama Awards as well as awards and nominations "Best Foreign Actor" in a number of organisation in Akiteiwa, Theyka and Kodeshia. Cah Kwang would also be catapulted in net worth, becoming one of the highest paid actors at his age within the country. He also provided the likeness and voice for Faust in a short-lived animation series which was cancelled after one season and was even in the making for a television show until clashes with the proposed director, Tak Sun-Hee caused and irrevocable fallout that would see the series shelved and eventually cancelled in 2020. Cah Kwang would later reprise the role in Lives as well as in the upcoming film Value. Cah Kwang would later star in a number of other notable movies and TV shows including Oh no! I fell in love with a Demon, Feedback, Friends and Father, thanks.