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RANDALL DUK KIM was most recently seen as Master Wang in
Flower Drum Song on Broadway. As a young actor, he played
Asia in The Hawaiians, was seen in four episodes of Hawaii
Five-O and played in Steven Tesich’s Hollywood PBS special
Nourish the Beast. From 1975 through 1994, Mr. Kim chose to
work exclusively on the stage, specializing in Shakespeare
and other classical works. In 1994 he began accepting movie
and television offers and co-starred with John Hurt in the
BBC Special Prisoners in Time. Subsequently, he has played
Alan Chan in The Replacement Killers and General Alak in Anna
and the King, in addition to his key role in The Matrix Reloaded.
He played Shu in the two-part movie The Lost Empire for NBC’s
Hallmark Hall of Fame and was featured in an episode of 100
Centre Street. In 1996, after a twenty year absence from New
York, Mr. Kim returned to play The Kralahome in the Tony Award-winning
Broadway revival of The King and I. Following that, he starred
as Eng Tieng-Bin in David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child
on Broadway, Balarius in Cymbeline at the NY Shakespeare Festival,
Marc in Yasminia Reza’s ART at the Singapore Repertory
Theatre and Koichi Asano in Leonard Spigelgass’s A Majority
of One, co-starring with Phyllis Newman, at the Jewish Repertory
Theatre in NYC and on tour.
At the New York Shakespeare Festival, his credits include
Shlink in Brecht’s In the Jungle of Cities, Trinculo
in The Tempest (Lincoln Center) and Pericles in Pericles.
At the American Place Theatre, his credits include Rochelle
Owens’ The Karl Marx Play, Steven Tesich’s Nourish
the Beast and Frank Chin’s The Chickencoop Chinaman and
The Year of the Dragon. At Circle Rep, Mr. Kim was Walt Whitman
in Richard Howard’s Wildflowers.
Born and raised in Hawaii, Mr. Kim made his stage debut at
the age of eighteen playing Malcolm in Macbeth. His love of
classics, especially Shakespeare, led him to the Guthrie Theatre
in Minneapolis where he played Hamlet in Hamlet, Bishop Nicolas
in Ibsen’s The Pretenders and Zhevakin in Gogol’s
The Marriage. At the ACT in San Francisco, he played Richard
III in Richard III and performed in The Taming of the Shrew,
Three Penny Opera, O’Neill’s Marco Millions and
J. B. Priestley’s When We Are Married. Mr. Kim has also
performed with Champlain Shakespeare Festival, Honolulu Theatre
for Youth, Indiana Repertory, Baltimore Centre Stage, Yale
Repertory, Arizona Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival
and toured in one-man shows of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe,
Walt Whitman and a potpourri of classics, What Should Such
Fellows as I Do?
He co-founded American Players Theater in Wisconsin with
Anne Occhiogrosso and Charles Bright, serving as Artistic
Director and playing the title roles in Hamlet, King Lear,
Titus Andronicus, King John, Marlowe’s Tamberlaine the
Great, Hamlet, Chekhov’s Ivanov and Sophocles’ Oedipus
Rex as well as Shylock, Prospero, Puck, Petruchio, Romeo,
Friar Laurence, Brutus, Malvolio, Falstaff, Chubukov and Svetlovidov
in Chekhov’s The Proposal and Swan Song, Dr. Stockmann
in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People and Orgon in Moliere’s
Tartuffe and many more. Mr. Kim received an Obie Award for
“Sustained Excellence of Performance” in the legitimate
theatre.
FILMOGRAPHY
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) ... The Keymaker
Anna and the King (1999) ... General Alak
The Thin Red Line (1998) ... Nisei Interpreter
The Replacement Killers (1998) ... Alan Chan
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