Jacqueline Joan Kim is an

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writer, actress, filmmaker and composer. She was nominated for a FIND

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award for Best Supporting Actress in the film '' Charlotte Sometimes''.

Early life

Kim was born in

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, to

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parents,Bret Ryan Rudnick.
An interview with Jacqueline Kim
. ''Whoosh!'', issue 17, February 1998. Retrieved 2007-01-16. as the youngest of three girls.Ada Tseng.
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, and started in theatre at age 14, "at a little theatre down the street called 'Willow Way'." She graduated from Bloomfield Hills

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from the Theatre School at

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in Chicago.Red Doors Cast Bios
". Retrieved 2007-01-16.

Career

After graduating from drama school, Kim began acting on stages in

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, The Shakespeare Theatre (DC) and eventually landed in

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. Highlights throughout four seasons at the

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include such roles as Nina in ''

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'', the title role in ''

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'' and Phocion/Princess in ''The Triumph of Love''. At the end of 1993, she moved to

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and began her film career, landing major roles in two films, ''

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'' and Barry Levinson's ''

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''. These roles were followed by work opposite

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in ''Volcano''. In 1999, she played Yon Greene, a Bangkok attorney and lawyer for

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and

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, in ''

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''. In 2001, she shared the title role in the film ''The Operator'', written and directed by Jon Dichter, co-starring

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and

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. Her breakout film and performance was in Eric Byler's ''Charlotte Sometimes'', which film critic

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championed and brought to his Overlooked Film Festival. This role was recognized by two FIND Independent Spirit Award nominations for Kim's work as Charlotte and for the film (the

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). Kim is also known for her work in the two part epic "The Debt, Part I and II" for the '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' television series as Xena's spiritual mentor, Lao Ma. She won the 2004 LA Drama Critics' Circle award for best female lead performance in

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' production of '' Passion''. Her roots are in musical theatre. In 2011, she released her first EP, ''This I Heard (song & melodies, part I)''. In 2015, Kim finished production on the film ''

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''. She co-wrote, produced and composed the feature with its director,

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, while starring opposite

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James Urbaniak James Christian Urbaniak (born September 17, 1963) is an American character actor. He is best known for his roles as Simon Grim in three Hal Hartley films: '' Henry Fool'' (1997), '' Fay Grim'' (2006) and '' Ned Rifle'' (2014), Robert Crumb in ...

and

Ken Jeong Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong (, ; born July 13, 1969) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, producer, writer and licensed physician. He rose to prominence for playing Leslie Chow in ''The Hangover'' film series (2009–2013) and Ben Chang in the ...

Filmography

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