Cha made her acting debut in 1978, and became best known as the heroine Kim Mi-ja in the 1987
television drama Love and Ambition, a character who became an icon for modern Korean women in that era. She retired a year after getting married in 1988. Cha returned to acting twenty years later in 2008 with ''
Aeja's Older Sister, Minja''. In March 2018, Cha signed with new management agency
Imagine Asia. ==Filmography==