Jacqueline Kim

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Jacqueline Kim
Born Jacqueline Joan Kim
March 31, 1965 (1965-03-31) (age 46)
Cincinnati, Ohio  United States

Jacqueline Joan Kim (born March 31, 1965)[1] an actor, filmmaker and composer, is also known as the musical entity, This I Heard. She has been nominated for an Independent Spirit award for Best Supporting Actress in the independent film, Charlotte Sometimes.

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[edit] Early life

Kim was born to Korean parents,[2] as the youngest of three girls.[3] She was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan,[1] and started in the theatre at age 14, "at a little theatre down the street called the 'Willow Way'."[2] She graduated from Bloomfield Hills Lahser High School. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago.[4]

[edit] Career

After graduating, Kim began acting at a theatre in Chicago, and also worked in New York and Washington, D.C.. She later spent four years with the Guthrie Theater Company in Minneapolis,[2] where she played such roles as Nina in The Seagull, the title role in Electra, Phocion/Princess in The Triumph of Love,[4] and roles in Fantasio and several of Shakespeare's historical plays.[5] At the end of 1993, she moved to Los Angeles.[2] She won the 2004 Garland and LA Drama Critics' Circle award for best female lead performance in East West Players' production of Passion.[3] She starred in and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for best supporting female in the film Charlotte Sometimes, portraying the role of Charlotte/Darcy. She is also known by fans of Xena: Warrior Princess for portraying Lao Ma in two significant episodes, and to Star Trek fans as Demora Sulu, the adult daughter of Hikaru Sulu in the film "Star Trek Generations."

[edit] Further reading

  • Release Print Magazine, "Lights, Camera, Direct!", September/October 2004

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Jacqueline Kim Biography ((?)-)
  2. ^ a b c d Bret Ryan Rudnick. "An interview with Jacqueline Kim". Whoosh!, issue 17, February, 1998. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
  3. ^ a b Ada Tseng. "Journeying with Red Doors: An interview with Jacqueline Kim". 2006-09-21. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
  4. ^ a b "Red Doors Cast Bios". Retrieved 2007-01-16.
  5. ^ "Investing in Media That Matters", 2003-01-16. Retrieved 2007-01-16.

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