Daniel Dae Kim
Daniel Dae Kim was born in Busan, South Korea on August 4th, 1968 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 55, Daniel Dae Kim biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Daniel Dae Kim (born Kim Dae-hyun on August 4, 1978) is a South Korean actor, voice actor, and producer.
He is known for his roles as Jin-Soo Kwon in Lost, Chin Ho Kelly in Hawaii Five-0, Gavin Park in Angel and Johnny Gat in the Saints Row series of video games.
He also runs a production company called 3AD, which is currently producing the television series The Good Doctor.
Early life
Kim was born in Busan, South Korea, the son of mother Jung Kim and father Dr. Doo-tae Kim, and moved to the United States with his family when he was one year old. He grew up in New York City, Easton, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Freedom High School in Bethlehem in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.
In 1990, Kim graduated from Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania with double bachelor's degrees in theater and political science. He went on to earn an MFA from New York University's Graduate Acting Program in 1996.
Personal life
Kim has continued to split his time between Los Angeles and Hawaii, where he has been living with his wife and two sons. During the later seasons of Lost, he continued his residency after being cast in Hawaii Five-0. He served as a speaker at the 2014 University of Hawaii commencement ceremony.
On March 19, 2020, Kim announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19. On March 30, 2020, Kim announced that he had recovered.
Kim is an avid collector of fine vintage watches. Some of his watches from his personal collection have been featured in some of his films.
Career
Kim made a name for himself by appearing in a variety of television shows after graduation. He appeared in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as a treasure agent as well as episodes of Star Trek: Business, Charmed, The Shield, NYCPD Blue, and ER. He appeared on the short-lived Babylon 5 spin-off Crusade and appeared on Angel and 24. In a 2008 miniseries based on Michael Crichton's most popular Michael Crichton book The Andromeda Strain, he also portrayed Dr. Tsi Chou.
Kim's film credits include a Shaolin monk in American Shaolin (1992), which allowed him to show his talents in Tae Kwon Do. In Spider-Man 2 (2004) as a scientist in Doctor Octavius' laboratory, as well as the film Crash (2004). He has appeared in films including The Jackal (1997), For Love of the Game (1999), Hulk (2004), and The Cave (2005).
Kim appeared on ABC's Lost in 2004, a lowly Korean fisherman-turned-hitman who crashed onto a cryptic island with his wife Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim). Since the job required him to speak exclusively in Korean, he was forced to relinn the language, which he hadn't heard with such regularity since high school. He will continue to portray the role until the 2010 series finale. Throughout the show's run, he and his co-stars have received numerous awards, including the Best Ensemble Award in 2006, among others. He was given an AZN Asian Excellence Award, a Multicultural Prism Award, and a Vanguard Award from the Korean American Coalition, respectively for Outstanding Achievement by an Actor. In 2005, Kim was also named one of People Magazine's "Most Men Alive" list.
Kim was revealed in February 2010 as Chin Ho Kelly in the CBS reboot Hawaii Five-0, the role first made popular by actor Kam Fong. He was the first actor to be officially cast on the show. That series premiered on September 20, 2010 to strong audiences and brisk critical acclaim.
Kim made his directorial debut with the Hawaii Five-0 season five episode "Kuka'awale." He left the show in late June 2017 early in the eighth season due to a salary dispute with CBS. He had been aiming for pay parity with co-stars Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan, but CBS refused to allow it.
Kim co-starred in The Divergent Series: Insurgent, the sequel to Divergent's 2014, starring Jack Kang, the Candor faction's leader.
Kim, the director of the film and television production company 3AD, agreed to a first-look development contract with CBS Television Studios in January 2014, the first of its kind with an Asian-American actress. The Good Doctor, based on the 2013 South Korean series of the same name, is now being produced by 3AD. He is an executive producer on The Good Doctor and appeared on The Good Doctor in its second season as the show's chief of surgery, Dr. Jackson Han.
In 2019, Kim played Ben Daimio in the reboot film Hellboy. As the character was Asian-American in the original comics, Ed Skrein was swapped for Ed Skrein in the role to prevent a whitewashing scandal. In the Disney animated film Raya and the Last Dragon, which was released in March 2021, Kim provides the voice of Chief Benja.
Kim is the voice of the character Johnny Gat in the Saints Row video game series. In the last two episodes of Justice League Unlimited, he was the voice for Metron.
In a return to his theater roots, Kim appeared in Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King of Siam from June 12-28, 2009 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England. Kim will make his Broadway debut as the King of Siam in Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I, which will run from May 3 to June 26, 2016, at the Lincoln Center Theatre in New York.