Jang Nara is a very popular Korean singer and actress. She also sings in Chinese and is known there by her Chinese name (traditional Chinese: 張娜拉, simplified Chinese: 张娜拉); (pinyin: Zhāng Nà Lā).
She was born in Seoul, South Korea on March 18, 1981.
As a child, Jang spent most of her childhood in her birthplace, Seoul, but appeared with her father in a play, Les Misérables, in her primary school days, thus sparking her interest to become an actress. Jang also went on to become an advertisement model for some television advertisements in her high school days before entering into the Department of Theater, the Faculty of Fine Arts at Chungang University in March 2000.
Jang moved into a singing career by signing up into SM Entertainment, however SM Entertainment had dropped Jang due to assumptions that Jang would have lesser or no popularity. Despite SM's opinion, Jang released her first album with the title song, "Burying My Face In Tears". The album sold 300,000 copies in the process. Her pop ballad style song, Confession and the April Story, was ranked at the top in various music charts. Thus, this resulted in Jang holding a 'Live' music TV programme in the MBC music camp.
Jang also has a successful acting career, in which she appears in a TV sitcom "New Nonstop" with famous Korean young stars such as Park Kyung-lim and Yang Dong Geun. Together with Jang Hyuk, she also played the leading role in a TV drama, "Successful Story of a Bright Girl", which recorded high audience rating.
In recent years, she starred in a drama in China, called "Bratty Princess". Being the lead actress, she has attracted much affection from Chinese-speaking fans and has become quite popular in Chinese-speaking countries in Asia.
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