Daniel Dae Kim has captivated global audiences with his transformative performances across film, television and theater. His body of work continues to evolve with powerful roles and compelling narratives as an actor, director and producer.

Currently Kim can be seen starring opposite Tony Goldwyn in Nat Geo’s scripted anthology series, The Hot Zone: Anthrax. The gripping series marks Daniel’s first leading role and is based on the domestic terror attacks following 9/11.

Additionally, it was recently announced that Kim will join Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender. He will play top villain Fire Lord Ozai, the ruthlessly driven leader of the Fire Nation in the adaptation of the Nickelodeon animated series.

Kim also recently starred in an episode of BJ Novak’s The Premise, a fearlessly ambitious new series that uses comedy to engage with the biggest issues of our unprecedented modern era. Daniel’s episode premiered on FX on October 7th and is available to stream on Hulu.

Daniel recently wrapped production on Apple TV+’s anthology series Roar, created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch (GLOW) aexecutive produced by Nicole Kidman, is based on Cecelia Ahern’s book of short stories.

In 2022 Kim can be seen in AMC’s Pantheon, an ambitious one-hour animated drama, based on a series of short stories by Ken Liu, featuring the voices of Katie Chang, Paul Dano, Rosemarie DeWitt and Aaron Eckhart.

Kim recently starred in Netflix’s Stowaway, opposite Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick and Shamier Anderson and also lent his vocal talents to Disney +’s Raya and The Last Dragon, with Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina, Gemma Chan, Benedict Wong and Sandra Oh. 

Kim’s imperative work as an advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion has been documented in the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News Nightline and many more outlets. Kim has testified in front of Congress twice and was instrumental in the passing of the bill “Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.” Kim is a co-chair of the Advisory Council of the newly formed non-profit The Asian American Foundation, which aims to solve for the longstanding underinvestment in AAPI advocacy and power-building infrastructures. Since May, TAAF has already donated $125 million in support of AAPI causes and raised $1.1 billion in its first month.

Kim’s production company, 3AD specifically develops content featuring characters that are traditionally underrepresented. For the past five years 3AD has produced the hit ABC show, The Good Doctor, featuring a doctor with autism. A dramedy series entitled Shoot the Moon starring Ken Jeong was just greenlit at Amazon and This is Always is set up at Amazon as well, with Mina Shum writing and directing and Daniel in talks to star. 3AD has several more projects in development, including a highly anticipated heist movie with Randall Park.

Kim starred for seven years on the juggernaut series Hawaii Five-0 and the hit TV series Lost and as the King of Siam in Lincoln Center’s Tony Award-winning production of The King and I.    

Born in Busan, South Korea, and raised in New York and Pennsylvania, Kim discovered acting at Haverford College and then moved to New York City, where he began his career on the New York stage and got his at Master’s at NYU’s Tisch.
 
When not working, Kim and his family make their home in Hawaii.