Seong Gi-hun
Player 456: the indebted gambler who wins the games and then goes back to end them.
Seong Gi-hun, Player 456, is the main protagonist of Squid Game, played by Lee Jung-jae. A divorced former chauffeur and gambling addict deep in debt, he wins the deadly contest in the first season and returns in the second and third to try to end it.
Quick Facts
- Series
- Squid Game
- First
- "Red Light, Green Light" (2021)
- Last
- "Humans Are..." (2025)
- Creator
- Hwang Dong-hyuk
- Portrayed by
- Lee Jung-jae (adult); Kim Yeon-ung (child)
- Voice
- Greg Chun (English)
- Also known as
- Player 456
Facts from the source article.
Background
Gi-hun lives with his elderly mother in Ssangmun-dong, Seoul, and is estranged from his daughter. The Recruiter draws him in with a game of ddakji. In the games he allies with Ali Abdul, Cho Sang-woo, Kang Sae-byeok and Oh Il-nam and makes enemies of Jang Deok-su. He wins after Sang-woo stabs himself in the final, but finds that his mother has died, and a year later learns that Il-nam created the games. Instead of flying to see his daughter, he turns back to hunt the organisers, re-enters the games in season 2 and leads a failed rebellion. In season 3 he refuses the Front Man's offer to kill the other finalists and throws himself off the platform so that Kim Jun-hee's baby wins. Hwang Dong-hyuk drew on his own life for the character, and he and Sang-woo were meant as two sides of the creator. Lee won the Screen Actors Guild Award for the role.
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