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Jacqueline Kim
Born
Jacqueline Joan Kim

(1965-03-31) March 31, 1965 (age 59)
Cincinnati, Ohio

Jacqueline 'Jae' Kim (born March 31, 1965)[1] is an American multi-disciplinary artist focusing on socially engaged projects. She is the recipient of a Sundance special jury prize for Collaborative Vision, for her work on the feature film Advantageous, co-written with Jennifer Phang.

Early life

Kim was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Korean parents, [2] the youngest of three.[3] Her sisters are also musicians, her mother was a librarian and her father, an architect. Raised in Southfield, a suburb of Detroit, Jae spent her secondary school years in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan,[1] where she began studying at ‘Will-O-Way Apprentice Theatre’ with director/ conductor Celia Merrill Turner.”[2] "[2] She then earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago.[4]

Career

From early on, Ms. Kim has been chosen to portray women who push the boundaries of their prescribed gender roles starting with Sarah Daniels’ play about snuff films, Masterpieces. This continued at the Guthrie Theater under Garland Wright's direction where she played Nina in The Seagull, the title role in Electra and Phocion/Princess in The Triumph of Love.

Moving to Los Angeles, feminist themes continued when she met writers from the Asian American community and her first studio films would have her driving the ship as Sulu's daughter in Star Trek Generations and and working for a male boss who is being sexually harassed in Barry Levinson's Disclosure.

Her first co-penned collaboration was in the title role of Eric Byler's Charlotte Sometimes, which film critic Roger Ebert championed and which garnered two FIND Independent Spirit Award nominations. Kim also got to play the female Lao Tzu (Lao Ma) in "The Debt, Part I and II" for the Xena: Warrior Princess television series.

In 1999, she met one of her deepest spiritual teachers, Thich Nhat Hanh and would eventually take bodhisattva vows in 2013. Her first original short film, Present: A Moment in the Future and her first ep, This I Heard (songs and melodies, part I), were both dedicated to Thay and the present moment.

In 2015, finishing production on the film Advantageous which she co-wrote, co-produced, composed and acted opposite Jennifer Ehle, James Urbaniak and Ken Jeong, Kim decided to retire from the front of the camera to apply her skills as a visual and sonic artist to impact public space.

Spring of 2022 saw the launch of Jae's first musical score for a full length work, an audiobook about Grey zone Lymphoma, Seven Year Summer, and a choral commission for the Voices of Hope prison choirs in Shakopee and Stillwater, Minnesota. She is currently working with Angel City Jazz festival to develop an offshoot program, SoundCheck, which will commission new works by composers (including Kim) inspired by a public site with the intent of honoring and collaborating with the displaced people who make their home there.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1992 The Mighty Ducks Jane
1993 Trauma Alice
1994 Disclosure Cindy Chang
Star Trek Generations Ensign Demora Sulu
White Mile Michelle Stefanoff Television
1995 Courthouse Amy Chen Television
6 episodes
1997 Volcano Jaye Calder
Xena: Warrior Princess Lao Ma Television
Episodes: "The Debt, Part I" and "The Debt, Part II"
1999 Brokedown Palace Yon Greene
2000 The Operator The Operator
ER Linda Reed Television
Episode: "The Greatest of Gifts"
2001 The Hollywood Sign Paula Carver
The West Wing Lt. Emily Lowenbrau Television
Episode: "Bad Moon Rising"
2002 Charlotte Sometimes Charlotte/Darcy Independent Spirit Award nominee for Best Supporting Female[5]
In Search of Cezanne Martha Beck Credited as co-writer
2005 Red Doors Samantha Wong
2006 Present Writer, director and producer
Threshold Rachel Television
Episodes: "Outbreak" and "Vigilante"
2015 Advantageous Gwen Writer and producer

References

  1. ^ a b "Jacqueline Kim Biography ((?)-)". www.filmreference.com.
  2. ^ a b Bret Ryan Rudnick. "An interview with Jacqueline Kim". Whoosh!, issue 17, February 1998. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
  3. ^ Ada Tseng. "Journeying with Red Doors: An interview with Jacqueline Kim Archived 2007-02-24 at the Wayback Machine". 2006-09-21. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
  4. ^ "Red Doors Cast Bios Archived 2006-12-07 at the Wayback Machine". Retrieved 2007-01-16.
  5. ^ Spirit Award listings Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2007-01-25.
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