
Chae debuted in 2014 in the film My Dictator. She then featured in weekend drama House of Bluebird (2015) and youth series Cheer Up! (2015) which won her "Best New Actress" awards at both 4th APAN Star Awards and 29th KBS Drama Awards. Chae had a major role in the hit drama Love in the Moonlight (2016) from which she gained an Excellence Award nomination at the 30th KBS Drama Awards. The same year she starred in the play Blackbird and the Chinese-South Korean web-drama My Catman. In 2017, she took on her first prime-time leading role in the historical television series Rebel: Thief Who Stole the People.

Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy
2025 · as Yu Sang-ah

Hijack 1971
2024 · as Ok-soon

The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure
2022 · as So-Nyeo

Sweet & Sour
2021 · as Jung Da-eun

Rosebud
2019 · as Hong Hyun-ah

My Dictator
2014 · as Girl (uncredited)

Sori: Voice from the Heart
2016 · as Yoo-joo

If We Were a Season
2017 · as Yoon Hae-Rim

The Diary of Heong Yeong-dang
2014 · as Sim Cheong-i