Disclosed is a multimedia data receiver using an optical cable that can receive multimedia data such as an image, voice and control signal whose media are different from each other through an optical transmission medium such as plastic or glass optical cables in a short or long distance area. The multimedia data receiver includes: an optical driver, amplifying a received signal of a single transmission format that is optical-to-electrical converted by an optical module connected to an optical cable, converting a serial data for transmission into an analog signal, performing optical transmission through the optical module; an interface control logic, extracting a control signal from the signal received through the optical driver, interfacing control data; and a digital signal processing logic, converting the signal received through the optical driver into data of the original transmission format through converting the signal into a digital signal and decoding the digital signal, deserializing a serial image data, transmitting the data to a display device connected thereto.