Randall Duk Kim

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Randall Duk Kim (born September 24, 1943) is an American stage, film, and television actor.

Career[]

Kim was born and raised in Hawaii.^{[2] [3][4][5][6][7]}

Kim began doing theatre since he was 18 years old.^[8]

Kim has portrayed a wide variety of roles on the stage, focusing upon Western classical works, including Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen and Molière. He has spent most of his career in theatre.

Kim starred in the first play written by an Asian American to be produced professionally in New York, The Chickencoop Chinaman by Frank Chin, which was mounted by The American Place Theatre in 1972.

Kim co-founded the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin with Anne Occhiogrosso and Charles Bright in 1977.^[9] He was the theatre's artistic director.^[10]

Kim starred in Chin's second play, The Year of the Dragon in 1974. He was one of the first Asian-American actors to play a leading role in an American production of a Shakespeare play when he played the title role in The New York Public Theater's 1974 production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre.^[11]

Kim played the title role in Hamlet at the Guthrie Theatre in 1978–79.^[12]

He played Kralahome in the 1996 revival of The King and I on Broadway, later succeeding to the leading role. Other Broadway credits include Golden Child and the revised version of Flower Drum Song, both written by David Henry Hwang.

Film and television[]

Kim portrayed the Keymaker in the film The Matrix Reloaded (2003).^[13] He was originally asked by casting director Mali Finn for the role.^[8]

He played Grandpa Gohan in the live action Dragonball Evolution (2009).^[14]

Kim voiced Po's teacher, Grand Master Oogway, in Kung Fu Panda (2008) and Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016).^[15]

In 2008, he played mathematician Dashiell Kim in the episode "The Equation" of the television series Fringe.

Personal life[]

Kim is married to actress and fellow American Players Theatre co-founder, Anne Occhiogrosso.^[16]

Filmography[]

Film[]

TV series[]

Video games[]

References[]

External links[]

• Randall Duk Kim at IMDb
• Randall Duk Kim at the Internet Broadway Database
• Randall Duk Kim at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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