Christopher Young Kim is a Korean-American actor born and raised in Maryland, United States. In 2018, he changed his stage name from Christopher Kim to Young Mazino, a combination of his middle name and a comic book character named Urek Mazino.
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BIOGRAPHY
Kim is an alumnus of Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City, New York, USA. Here are 10 more things about him:
- He was born in Silver Spring, Montgomery County to Korean parents.
- In 2009, he graduated from Sherwood High School.
- From May 2012 to August 2012, he worked at the Ocean City Beach Patrol in Ocean City, Worcester County, Maryland as a surf rescue technician.
- From November 2012 to March 2014, he worked as an inside sales specialist at Choice Hotels International in Rockville, Montgomery County.
- In 2013, he, Steven Malone and Maria Murillo starred in the short film “Digging”, which marked his professional acting debut.
- In 2014, he dropped out of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland, moved to New York City and attended the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
- From October 2014 to March 2020, he was a senior business intelligence analyst at the skincare company Fresh, Inc. in New York City.
- In August 2018, he joined the Screen Actors Guild.
- In 2023, he starred in the Neflix series “Beef”, the film “Trinity’s Triumph” and the music video of SZA‘s song “Snooze”.
- On August 27, 2024, he turned 33.
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TIMELINE
Kim is 6’0″ tall and is a first-degree black belt in taekwondo. He has two older sisters.
2023
- On June 20, 2023, he attended the Film Independent New Wave Actors Panel and Conversation event at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on June 20, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
- On September 8, 2023, he attended the Helmut Lang fashion show the during New York Fashion Week in New York City.
- On September 12, 2023, he attended the Kozaburo fashion show during the New York Fashion Week in New York City.
- On November 9, 2023, he attended Burberry’s opening event of Knight Bar in New York City.
- On December 3, 2023, he and his “Beef” co-stars Ali Wong and Steven Yeun attended the 2023 Celebration of Cinema and Television: Honoring Black, Latino and AAPI Achievements in Los Angeles, California.
- On December 16, 2023, he attended the Unforgettable Gala in Beverly Hills.
2024
- On January 14, 2024, he, Wong, Yeun, Jake Schreier, Joseph Lee, Lee Sung Jin and Maria Bello accepted the Best Limited Series award for “Beef” during the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California.
- On January 15, 2024, he attended the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California where he was nominated Best Actor for his “Beef” role. He lost to “Black Bird” actor Paul Walter Hauser.
- On April 29, 2024, he attended an event of WhatsApp and the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team at Virgin Hotels in New York City.
2025
- On March 2, 2025, he attended the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.
- On March 8, 2025, he joined the panel of “The Last of Us” Season 2 during the South by Southwest 2025 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, USA.
- He starred in “Opus”, which hit theaters in the U.S. on March 14, 2025.
- He played Jesse in “The Last of Us”, which aired on HBO from April 13, 2025 to May 25, 2025.
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