‘Squid Game’ actress dies three months after cancer diagnosis at age 81

“Squid Game” actress Lee Joo-sil has died at age 81.

Lee passed away Sunday at her family home in Uijeongbu, South Korea, according to Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo.

She was diagnosed with stomach cancer in Nov. 2024, the paper said.

Lee was previously diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in her fifties and was given less than one year to live, but she received the all-clear from doctors 13 years later.

Her funeral will be held at Shinchon Severance Hospital on Feb. 5.

Lee starred in “Squid Game” as Park Mal-soon, the mother of police detective Hwang Jun-ho, and the stepmother of The Front Man, Hwang In-ho.