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Randall Duk Kim

Korean Background:

Korean-American (Chinese and Korean descent)

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Randall Duk Kim is a Hawaiian-born Chinese-Korean American actor and one of the pioneering Asian-American classical stage performers in the United States. Raised near Honolulu, he trained under Kabuki master Onoe Kuroemon II and became one of the first Asian-American actors to lead a Shakespeare production in America, playing the title role in the Public Theater's 1974 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and later Hamlet at the Guthrie Theatre (1978–79). He starred in the first professionally produced Asian-American play in New York, Frank Chin's The Chickencoop Chinaman (1972), and co-founded American Players Theatre in Wisconsin in 1977. He made his Broadway debut in the 1996 revival of The King and I, originating the Kralahome and later succeeding to the role of the King of Siam as a replacement. His other Broadway credits include the play Golden Child (1998) and the David Henry Hwang revision of Flower Drum Song (2002). He is also known on screen as the Keymaker in The Matrix Reloaded and the voice of Master Oogway in the Kung Fu Panda franchise.

Broadway or West End Debut

Debut Marktet:

Broadway

Debut Year:

1996

Debut Production:

The King and I

Debut Role:

The Kralahome; understudy for the King of Siam

Debut Theatre:

Neil Simon Theatre

Company Entry:

Original Cast

Credit Type:

Principal; King of Siam Understudy

The King and I

Neil Simon Theatre

The Kralahome — Original | Apr 11, 1996 - Feb 22, 1998
King of Siam — Understudy (Replacement) | Start date unconfirmed - Feb 22, 1998

Broadway

Flower Drum Song

Virginia Theatre

Wang — Original | Oct 17, 2002 - Mar 16, 2003

Broadway

References

     

Randall Duk Kim — Playbill

https://playbill.com/person/randall-duk-kim-vault-0000069057

     

Randall Duk Kim — IBDB

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/randall-duk-kim-69584

     

The King and I — 1996 Broadway Revival — Playbill

https://playbill.com/production/the-king-and-i-neil-simon-theatre-vault-0000000852

     

Golden Child — 1998 Broadway — Playbill

https://playbill.com/production/golden-child-longacre-theatre-vault-0000006862

     

Flower Drum Song — 2002 Broadway Revival — Playbill

https://playbill.com/production/flower-drum-song-virginia-theatre-vault-0000005230

     

Randall Duk Kim — Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Duk_Kim

     

Randall Duk Kim: A Sojourn in the Embodiment of Words — Journal of American Drama and Theatre

https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/randall-duk-kim:-a-sojourn-in-the-embodiment-of-words

     

[사람들] '매트릭스' 열연 재미교포3세 랜덜 덕 김 — 조선일보

https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2003/06/03/2003060370332.html

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