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Randall Duk Kim will be seen as the Tattoo Master in
Ninja Assassin and as Grandpa Gohan in Dragonball.
Both films are scheduled to be released in 2009. He will also voice
the character of the 1,000 year old tortoise, Oogway, in DreamWorks'
animated film, Kung Fu Panda.
In
1994, after a 20 year hiatus to concentrate on Shakespeare and other
classics on the live stage, Randall began accepting film and
television roles: Uncle Lau in 3 episodes of Thief, the Foreman, the Old Man
and Auntie Yaga in Year of the Fish,
Dr. Crab in Memoirs of a Geisha; Mr. Hung (Cameo) in
Falling For Grace, Whitaker (Cameo) in
Homecoming, The Keymaker in Matrix Reloaded, General
Alak in Anna and the King, Alan Chan in The Replacement
Killers, Master Shu in The Lost Empire and Nagase Takashi in
Prisoners In Time for BBC television. As
a young actor, Randall played Asia in The Hawaiians, was seen
in four episodes of Hawaii Five O and played in Steven
Tesich’s Hollywood PBS Special, Nourish the Beast.
He can be heard as the Voice of
James Wong (opposite Yun-Fat Chow) in John Woo's first video game,
Stranglehold and as
the Voice of Shingen in the video game Red Ninja and seen as
The Keymaker in both Enter the Matrix and The Matrix: Path
of Neo
On Broadway, Randall was seen
as Master Wang in Flower Drum Song, Eng Tieng-Bin in
Golden Child and The Kralahome in The King and I. He was
also seen as Omar Khayyam in Kismet at New York City Center
Encores!
He played Belarius in
Cymbeline at the NY Shakespeare Festival, Marc in Yasminia
Reza’s ART at the Singapore Repertory Theatre and Koichi
Asano in Leonard Spigelgass’s A Majority of One, co-starring
with Phyllis Newman, at the Jewish Repertory Theatre in NYC and on
tour. Other New York credits include: New York Shakespeare
Festival, Shlink in Brecht’s In the Jungle of Cities,
Trinculo in The Tempest (Lincoln Center) and Pericles in
Pericles; American Place Theatre: Rochelle Owens’ The Karl
Marx Play, Steven Tesich’s Nourish the Beast, and
Frank Chin’s The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the
Dragon; at Circle Rep:, Walt Whitman in Richard Howard’s
Wildflowers. Born and raised in Hawaii, Mr. Kim made his stage
debut at the age of eighteen playing Malcolm in Macbeth. His
love of classics, especially Shakespeare, led him to the Guthrie
Theatre in Minneapolis where he played Hamlet in Hamlet,
Bishop Nicolas in Ibsen’s The Pretenders, and Zhevakin in
Gogol’s The Marriage. At the ACT in San Francisco, he played
Richard III in Richard III, and performed in The Taming of
the Shrew, Three Penny Opera, O’Neill’s Marco Millions
and J. B. Priestley’s When We Are Married. Mr. Kim has also
performed with the Champlain Shakespeare Festival, Honolulu Theatre
for Youth, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Baltimore Centre Stage, Yale
Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre
Festival, as well as toured in one-man shows of Mark Twain, Edgar
Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and a potpourri of classics, What Should
Such Fellows As I Do? He co-founded American Players Theater
in Wisconsin with Anne Occhiogrosso and Charles Bright, serving as
Artistic Director and playing the title roles in Hamlet,
King Lear, Titus Andronicus, King John, Marlowe’s
Tamberlaine the Great, Chekhov’s Ivanov and Sophocles’
Oedipus Rex as well as Shylock, Prospero, Puck, Petruchio,
Romeo, Friar Laurence, Brutus, Malvolio, Falstaff, Chubukov and
Svetlovidov in Chekhov’s The Proposal and Swan Song,
Dr. Stockmann in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, and Orgon in
Moliere’s Tartuffe and many more. Mr. Kim received an
Off Broadway Obie Award for “Sustained Excellence of Performance” in
the legitimate theater. |