Alan Kim
Biography
Alan Sun Kim was born on April 23, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a male American child actor who is also credited as Alan S. Kim, Alan Kim and 앨런 김. By age seven he portrayed David Yi, a first‑generation Korean‑American with a heart condition, in Lee Isaac Chung’s film Minari, a role that earned rave reviews. Kim received the 2021 Critics’ Choice Award for Best Young Actor/Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor in a Film. Minari won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Kim is in the third grade, favors mathematics, and enjoys riding a bike and creating paper crafts. His filmography lists eleven acting credits.
Career overview
Alan Sun Kim was born on April 23, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He began his acting career as a child and gained widespread attention at the age of seven when he was cast as David Yi, a first‑generation Korean‑American boy living in rural Arkansas, in Lee Isaac Chung’s film Minari. The role placed Kim in a prominent position within the movie’s ensemble and contributed to the film’s critical success.
Following Minari, Kim received a Critics’ Choice Award in 2021 for Best Young Actor/Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA in the category of Best Supporting Actor in a Film. Minari itself earned the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. As of the latest available information, Kim is a third‑grade student whose favorite school subject is mathematics, and he enjoys riding a bike and creating paper crafts in his free time. His professional credits total eleven entries, and he is also listed under the variations Alan S. Kim and Alan Kim.
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- IF (2024) as Benjamin
- PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023) as Nano (voice)
- Theater Camp (2023) as Alan Park
- Monsters at Work (2021) as Ben (voice)
- Minari (2021) as David
- Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2020) as Young Wally
- Little America (2020) as Luke Song
- You Quiz on the Block (2018) as Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) as Self
- Latchkey Kids as Shae