Background
Kim was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Korean parents, as the youngest of three girls.
Kim was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Korean parents, as the youngest of three girls.
She was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and started in the theatre at age 14, "at a little theatre down the street called "Willow Way"." She graduated from Bloomfield Hills Lahser High School. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago.
After graduating from drama school, Kim began acting on stages in Chicago, The Shakespeare Theatre (District of Columbia) and eventually landed in Minneapolis. Highlights throughout four seasons at the Guthrie Theater include such roles as Nina in The Seagull, the title role in Electra, and Phocion/Princess in The Triumph of Love. At the end of 1993, she moved to Los Angeles and began her film career, landing major roles in two films, Star Trek: Generations, and Barry Levinson"s Disclosure.
This was followed by work opposite Tommy Lee Jones in Volcano.
In 1999, she played Yon Greene, a Bangkok attorney and lawyer for Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale, in Brokedown Palace. In 2001, she shared the title role in the film The Operator, written and directed by Jon Dichter, co-starring Michael Laurence and Stephen Tobolowsky.
Her breakout film and performance was in Eric Byler"s Charlotte Sometimes, which film critic Roger Ebert championed and brought to his Overlooked Film Festival. This was followed by two FIND Independent Spirit Award nominations, for Kims work as Charlotte and for the film (the John Cassavetes Award).
Kim is also known for her work in the two part epic "The Debt, Participant I and II" for the Xena: Warrior Princess television series.
Her roots are in musical theatre, and in 2011, she released her first European Parliament, This I Heard (song & melodies, part I). Recently, Kim finished production on the film, Advantageous. She co-wrote the feature with its director, Jennifer Phang (writer/ director of the short), produced, composed and stars opposite Jennifer Ehle, James Urbaniak and Ken Jeong.