Special report: The 60th Cannes Film Festival

Jeon Do-yeon holds the Best Actress award for her role in South Korean director Lee Chang-dong's film "Secret Sunshine" during a photocall at the 60th Cannes Film Festival May 27, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    BEIJING, May 31 -- Winning best actress award at the Cannes film festival has not made South Korea's Jeon Do-yeon a global star, she said on Wednesday, but it has made her family a lot nicer to her.

    Jeon, 34, acclaimed at home for roles ranging from a prostitute with AIDS to a common girl caught in scandalous love affairs in a historic Korean court, took home the award for her role as a newly widowed mother in "Secret Sunshine."

    "I don't think I'm a world star," Jeon told a news conference in Seoul after arriving home from France. "I am not going to think that I'm one either."

    Jeon said she had no plans at present to star overseas in a movie but would not rule it out if she found a script that interested her.

    Jeon said she was in a daze after becoming the first Korean to win the Cannes best actress award.

    "Even a day after the award, I was still wondering what had happened to me.

    "The words 'happy' and 'honored' are not enough to express my feelings. I wish there were bigger words."

    Since her award earlier this week, advanced ticket sales for the movie have soared in South Korea and the stock of Jeon's management company have also surged.

    Jeon, a newly-wed, said her husband was now calling her his "even more beloved wife."

    The actress was mobbed by reporters and supporters at the airport when she arrived home on Tuesday and was surprised to be greeted by her mother.

    "She never meets me at the airport," Jeon said.

    (Source: CRIENGLISH.com)

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