Actress Kim Ok-vin has won the best actress prize, along with her Spanish contemporary Elena Anaya, at the 42nd Sitges International Film Festival in Spain for her starring role in ``Thirst,'' directed by Park Chan-wook.
The festival's secretariat announced Sunday that Kim, 23, had been selected as the best actress along with Anaya who starred in ``Hierro.''
In 2005, actress Lee Young-ae won the award for her role in ``Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.''
Kim made her debut in an online beauty contest hosted by Internet portal Naver in 2004. She was cast for ``Voice'' in 2005 and ``The Accidental Gangster and the Mistaken Courtesan'' in 2008.
The Sitges film festival, founded in 1967, takes place in early October every year in the Catalonian coastal town of Sitges, some 40 kilometers south of Barcelona, and specializes in fantasy films.
In ``Thirst,'' Kim plays the role of Tae-ju, who is treated coldly by her sick husband and mother-in-law, and falls in love with Sang-hyun, a devoted priest who volunteers to be part of a medical experiment, receiving a blood transfusion.
Meanwhile, British director Duncan Jones, the son of rock legend David Bowie, won several prizes at this year's Sitges film festival for the science-fiction thriller ``Moon,'' his first feature film.
The film, starring American actor Sam Rockwell as an astronaut living alone in a Moon base, won the prizes for best film, best screenplay and best actor.
Source: Koreatimes
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