Background
Jo Bo-ah was born on August 22, 1991 in Daejeon, South of Korea.
Jo Bo-ah was born on August 22, 1991 in Daejeon, South of Korea.
Jo graduated from Daejeon Banseok High School.
She played leading roles in Shut Up Flower Boy Band (2012) and The Idle Mermaid (2014). She has one sister who is four years younger. Jo Bo-ah made her acting debut in 2011 with a small role in the daily sitcom I Live in Cheongdam-dong on cable channel jTBC. This was followed by a hosting gig on the audition program Made in U (also on jTBC), and an appearance in the Korean-Japanese co-production Koisuru Maison ~Rainbow Rose~.
In 2012, Jo landed her first major role as a former rich girl who falls for a rocker in tvN"s coming-of-age series Shut Up Flower Boy Band.
Later that year, she appeared in her first network television series with a supporting role in the MBC period drama Horse Doctor. In 2013, Jo and Kim Woo-bin hosted Mnet"s weekly music show M Countdown for two weeks (on April 4 and 11).
Jo was cast in her first film in 2014, as a troubled, seductive teenager who becomes obsessed with her gym teacher in the erotic thriller Innocent Thing. Back on cable television, she played the leading role in romantic comedy series The Idle Mermaid, a modern retelling of The Little Mermaid set amidst the competitive Korean workplace.
Jo tried a new genre in 2015 with the OCN police procedural Missing Noir M, where she played a detective on the missing persons task force.
She then joined the ensemble cast of the Korean Broadcasting System weekend family drama All About My Mom. Jo is also set to star in the upcoming web series Love Cells 2, adapted from the webtoon of the same title. Jo has been dating actor On Joo-wan since February 2015.
They met on the set of The Idle Mermaid.