Jacqueline Kim

Description

Jacqueline Joan Kim (born March 31, 1965) is an Korean American film, theatre and television actress and filmmaker. <p>Kim was born in Detroit, where she was raised, to Korean parents, as the youngest of three girls. She started in the theatre at age 14, "at a little theatre down the street called the 'Willow Way'." She earned a BFA from the Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago.<p>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, where she played such roles as Nina in The Seagull, the title role in Electra, Phocion/Princess in The Triumph of Love, and roles in Fantasio and several of Shakespeare's historical plays. At the end of 1993, she moved to Los Angeles. She won the 2004 Garland and LA Drama Critics' Circle award for best female lead performance in East West Players' production of Passion.<p>...