Randall Duk Kim

Theater

Kim began doing theater when he was 18 years old.^[10] He 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 theater.

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.^[11] He was the theater's artistic director.^[12]

In 1974, Kim starred in Chin's second play, The Year of the Dragon. Also that year, he became 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.^[13] Kim played the title role in Hamlet at the Guthrie Theatre in 1978–79.^[14]

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 played the part of General Alak in the 1999 movie ‘Anna and the King’. Kim portrayed the Keymaker in the film The Matrix Reloaded (2003).^[15] He was originally asked by casting director Mali Finn for the role.^[10] In 2008, he played mathematician Dashiell Kim in the episode "The Equation" of the television series Fringe. He played Grandpa Gohan in the live action Dragonball Evolution (2009).^[16] Kim voiced Po's and Shifu’s teacher, Grand Master Oogway, in Kung Fu Panda (2008), Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) and Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016).^[17]

Film

TV series

Video games