Daniel Dae Kim South Korean Actor Born 1968 in Busan

Daniel Dae Kim is a South Korean actor born on 4 August 1968 in Busan. His best-known titles on this site are Hawaii Five-0 (2010) and Hellboy (2019).

Early life

He studied at Bryn Mawr College, Freedom High School and Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.

Career

Records list Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) as his earliest screen credit. In the 1990s, he appeared in Law & Order (1990) and Ally McBeal (1997). The 2000s brought Lost (2004, as Jin-Soo Kwon) and Spider-Man 2 (2004). His 2010s credits include Once Upon a Time (2011) and The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015). During the 2020s, he worked on Stowaway (2021) and Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024, as Ozai).

In all, 18 films and 17 TV series appear in his credits from 1990 to 2024. Action is the most frequent genre among his listed titles (15), followed by drama (13) and science fiction (8). Of his three titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, Spider-Man 2 (2004) has the highest, at $789 million.

Mark Sheppard appears in three of his listed titles, including 24 (2001) and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000). Other co-stars who recur in his credits are Jeffrey Dean Morgan (three titles) and Reggie Lee (three titles). Robert Schwentke directed two of his titles on record, among them The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016).

Recognition

Daniel Dae Kim received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2006 for Lost. Further recognition came with two Time 100 awards (2025). His awards record shows 3 wins and 3 nominations.

Personal life

He has 2 children on record.