Shin Hye-sun wins Best Actress at Blue Dragon Series Awards for 'Lady Dua' as 'Secret Audit' hits 7.9% ratings high

Shin Hye-sun is having a year. The 36-year-old actor won Best Actress at the 5th Blue Dragon Series Awards for her role as Sara Kim in the Netflix series Lady Dua, which also landed in the top tier of Netflix's global rankings after its release.

She's carrying that momentum straight into tvN's Saturday-Sunday drama Secret Audit, where she plays Ju In-a, audit director at Haemu Group. Episode 4 clocked a series-high 7.9% viewership rating by Nielsen Korea. The show has firmly entered the conversation for the weekend slot.

Shin debuted in 2012 with the drama School 2013. Her 2018 weekend drama My Golden Life peaked at 45.1% viewership with a 34.8% average, earning her the Excellence Acting Award and Best Couple Award at the KBS Acting Awards. She followed that with the SBS Acting Awards Female Best Acting Award for Still 17 and a KBS Acting Awards Female Best Acting Award plus Best Couple Award for Angel's Last Mission: Love.

On the film side, She Died drew approximately 1.23 million admissions and brought her the 8th Korean Film Producers Association Close-up Award of the Year. In 2021, her SNL Korea Reboot Season 2 hosting stint produced a corner—Seventeen but Thirty—that crossed 10 million YouTube views.

2024 added a Presidential Commendation for Exemplary Taxpayer, the Buil Film Awards Female Star of the Year, and the KCA Cultural Entertainment Awards Viewers' Choice Actor of the Year to her shelf. She also served as promotional ambassador for the National Tax Service and Good Neighbors that year. (The 100 million won she donated in August 2022 for children in crisis families affected by heavy rain still stands as one of the more quietly notable things she's done off-screen.)

With Secret Audit still airing and the Blue Dragon win fresh, Shin Hye-sun's current run ranks among the stronger stretches of her career.