--- name: "Alan Kim" canonical: "https://film.one/person/alan-kim" fi1m_id: "alan-kim" imdb_id: "nm10910136" tmdb_id: 2476742 wikidata_id: "Q105847466" roles: ["Actor"] born: "23 April 2012" reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 73 average_as: "actor" average_over: 4 updated: "2026-10-07T18:51:35.066667+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Alan Kim ## Identity Alan Kim - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alan-kim - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** alan-kim - **IMDb ID:** nm10910136 - **TMDB ID:** 2476742 - **Wikidata ID:** Q105847466 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kim, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105847466, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10910136/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2476742 Actor. Born 23 April 2012 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 23 April 2012, Chicago, Illinois, USA - **Active:** 2020–present - **Also known as:** Alan S. Kim, 앨런 김, Alan Sun Kim - **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 4 titles - **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 75 across 4 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 2, Family 1, Fantasy 1 - **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $208m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kim, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105847466, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10910136/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2476742 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*IF*](https://film.one/film/if.md) (56) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Alan Kim > Alan Kim has one performance of real substance, as the boy who must not run in *Minari* (2021), and it is enough to make us watch what he does next. Everything since has been smaller, and none of it has asked much of him. David Yi in *Minari* (2021) has a heart murmur and orders not to run, and Alan Kim, seven when the film was shot, plays him as a boy who has heard the order and privately regards it as advice. He watches his father explain that the male chicks at the hatchery are thrown away because they are no use. He folds paper aeroplanes with "Don't fight" written on the wings and launches them down the hall while his parents row in the kitchen. Most of the film is his, and he carries it without seeming to know that he is carrying anything. Asked how he did it, Kim said: "Mostly, I just did what I normally do. I acted like myself." Directors say that about children when they mean the editor rescued them. Here it is closer to the truth. Lee Isaac Chung told him, by the boy's own account, not to rush and not to overreact, and he did neither. The mischief, the boredom and the fear are all in the performance and none of them is pushed at us. He is not overawed by Steven Yeun's proud, stubborn Jacob, and opposite Youn Yuh-jung's grandmother, who is the reason to see the film, he holds his end. We were more upset than we expected to be by the plain sight of a small boy told not to run on a farm in Arkansas where there is nothing to do but run, and that is Kim's doing: he never lets us forget how much he wants to. Before *Minari* he had done one advertisement for a children's furniture shop. Since it he has done voices in *Monsters at Work* and *PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie*, played the young Wally in *Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens* (2021), taken an ensemble part in *Theater Camp* (2023) and played Benjamin in John Krasinski's *IF* (2024). Our own review of *IF* does not mention him, which is not a slight. That film belongs to Cailey Fleming and has no room for anyone else to register, and the part gives him nothing like the hatchery or the aeroplanes to work with. The awkward fact about child performances is that some of what we admired belonged to the age he was, and that cannot be booked again. Kim was born in 2012. What he has now is one film in which he was exactly right and several in which nobody asked much of him. The next director who hands him a part as difficult as David will tell us which of those is the truer picture. ## Biography Alan Kim (born Alan Sun Kim) is an American child actor. He was born on 23 April 2012 in Chicago, Illinois, and moved with his family to Irvine, California. He made his feature film debut as David Yi in the 2020 drama *Minari*, directed by Lee Isaac Chung. Kim received the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer in 2021 for his performance in *Minari* and was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He has since appeared as Benjamin in the 2024 film *IF*, Alan Park in *Theater Camp* (2023), and provided voice roles in *PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie* (2023) and *Monsters at Work* (2021). His early acting work included a Pottery Barn Kids advertisement. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (4) - *IF* (2024), Fi1m 56, as Benjamin — [page](https://film.one/film/if.md) - *Theater Camp* (2023), Fi1m 70, as Alan Park — [page](https://film.one/film/theater-camp.md) - *Minari* (2021), Fi1m 84, as David — [page](https://film.one/film/minari.md) - *Little America* (2020), Fi1m 82, as Luke Song — [page](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md) ## Complete filmography (8) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *IF* (2024), as Benjamin — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/if.md) - *PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie* (2023), as Nano (voice) - *Theater Camp* (2023), as Alan Park — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/theater-camp.md) - *Monsters at Work* (2021), series, as Ben (voice) - *Minari* (2021), as David — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/minari.md) - *Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens* (2020), series, as Young Wally - *Little America* (2020), series, as Luke Song — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md) - *Latchkey Kids*, as Shae ## Gallery - ![Alan Kim](https://film.one/media/person/11529/gallery-529e1f756683.jpg) Alan Kim — Image via TMDB - ![Alan Kim](https://film.one/media/person/11529/gallery-5149f9ca930a.jpg) Alan Kim — Image via TMDB - ![Alan Kim](https://film.one/media/person/11529/gallery-e44525a128a4.jpg) Alan Kim — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer 2021: Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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