Jacqueline Joan Kim (born March 31, 1965)^[1] is an American film, theatre and television actress and filmmaker.

Biography

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 fourteen, "at a little theatre down the street called the 'Willow Way'."^[2] She graduated from Bloomfield Hills Lahser High School. She earned a BFA from the Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago.^[4]

Career

After graduating, Kim began acting at a theatre in Chicago, and also worked in New York and Washington, D.C.. She later spent 4 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]

Filmography

Further reading

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

References

External links

• "Charlotte" All the Time - Jacqueline Kim on "Charlotte Sometimes" from asianamericanfilm.com
• http://www.xenaville.com/cast/kim.html

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