The Bookish Life of Daniel Dae Kim

Daniel Dae Kim was born August 4, 1968, in Busan, South Korea, and was raised in New York City and jap Pennsylvania. After incomes a Bachelor of Arts with a double main in Theater and Political Science, he earned an MFA from New York University’s appearing program and has gone on to reside a bookish life and profession.

Although finest identified for his position on Lost within the mid-aughts, Kim’s appearing profession started within the early ’90s with visitor roles on tv and a supporting position in American Shaolin, a martial arts film that gave him an opportunity to place his black belt to make use of. In 1994, he was on an episode of All-American Girl, the primary Asian American sitcom. The present was loosely based mostly on Margaret Cho’s expertise of rising up Korean American. She has since written I’m the One That I Want and I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight about her life.

In 1997, Kim appeared within the pilot episode of Night Man, based mostly on the Malibu Comics sequence The Night Man. The similar yr, he was within the film Jackal, a free remake of Day of the Jackal, which was based mostly on the guide The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. Jackal was Sidney Poitier‘s last theatrical movie position.

In 1998, he appeared within the tv film adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, which starred Leonard Nemoy and Peter Gallagher. In 1999, he was within the Sam Raimi–helmed film adaptation of For the Love of the Game by Michael Shaara, which starred Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston.

Between 1999 and 2003, Kim had roles on Charmed; Star Trek: Voyager; Murder, She Wrote; Angel; and within the Babylon 5 spin-off sequence Crusade. All of these sequence have spawned long-running guide and/or comedian sequence.

In 2003, Kim had a small position in Hulk, the Ang Lee–helmed film concerning the Marvel Comics character. The following yr, he was in Spider-Man 2 as an assistant in Otto Octavius’s lab. That yr, he additionally had a recurring position on Star Trek: Enterprise.

From 2004 to 2010, Kim was a fundamental solid member on the hit sequence Lost, enjoying Jin-Soo Kwon. The present has impressed a sequence of novels in addition to books like The Lost Chronicles and Ultimate Lost and Philosophy: Think Together, Die Alone. During his tenure on Lost (and its spin-off present Lost: Missing Pieces), he supplied a visitor voice on Justice League Unlimited, based mostly on the DC Comics characters. In 2008, he starred on the sequence The Andromeda Strain, based mostly on the Michael Crichton novel The Andromeda Strain, enjoying Dr. Tsi Chou, and was in The Onion Movie, based mostly on the satire newspaper.

In 2015 and 2016, Kim performed Jack Kang within the variations of Veronica Roth’s Divergent sequence books Insurgent and Allegiant. In 2019, he performed BPRD worker Ben Daimio within the Neil Marshall adaptation of Hellboy by Mike Mignola.

He has just lately performed bookish roles on tv in New Amsterdam, based mostly on the guide Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer; The Hot Zone based mostly on The Hot Zone by Richard Preston; Patheon, based mostly on brief tales by Ken Liu; and Star Wars: Visions.

In 2006, Kim voiced General Fong on the cartoon sequence Avatar: the Last Airbender, which has a number of spin-off comics. He later loaned his voice to the Avatar: the Last Airbender online game, enjoying General Fong once more. And in 2012, he joined the solid of its sequel sequence, The Legend of Korra, enjoying an unrelated character. Next yr (2024), he’ll seem on the live-action Netflix sequence of Avatar: the Last Airbender, enjoying Fire Lord Ozai, who was voiced within the cartoon by Mark Hamill.

In his private life, Kim is married with two youngsters, and his household lives in Hawaii. He has spoken out about anti-Asian hate, significantly in the course of the top of the COVID-19 pandemic. He has additionally helped to raise awareness about voter ID legal guidelines that posed difficulties for college kids at HBCUs in the course of the Georgia run-off election in 2022. He additionally works as a producer by way of his firm 3AD, with a historic first-look take care of CBS tv — the primary of its type with an Asian American actor — the place he’s a producer on The Good Doctor.