Randall Park
American actor (born 1974)
Randall Park (born March 23, 1974) is an American actor, filmmaker, and comedian. He is best known for his roles as Agent Jimmy Woo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, FBI Special Agent Edwin Park in the Netflix series The Residence (2025), Louis Huang in the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020), for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2016, and for IKEA Heights, a comedy web series.
Before these major roles, Park gained popularity by playing Steve, a prank replacement of Jim Halpert (dubbed "Asian Jim") in an episode of the NBC sitcom The Office, and starring in the recurring role of Governor Danny Chung in the HBO comedy series Veep. He also co-starred in and co-wrote the Netflix romantic comedy film Always Be My Maybe (2019) alongside Ali Wong and directed the comedy-drama film Shortcomings (2023).
Park played Agent Jimmy Woo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the films Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, (2023) and the miniseries WandaVision (2021). He played a future version of himself in the 2021 Dwayne Johnson autobiographical comedy series Young Rock and portrayed North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in the comedy film The Interview (2014). He played Dr. Stephen Shin in the DC Extended Universe films Aquaman (2018) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023).
Early life
Park was born to Duk Hee and Harry Park, Korean immigrants in Los Angeles, California and grew up in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Castle Heights. His mother was an accountant at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his father owned a one-hour photo store.
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