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Lauren Kim (born 1 February 1981; age 43) is a stuntwoman and stunt actress who performed utility stunts as a Kelvin crewmember for Star Trek under stunt coordinator Joey Box. Her scenes were shot between 14 and 21 November 2007 and she worked with J.J. Abrams. [1] [2]
Kim was born in Stockton, California and attended the California State University. She made her first experiences as dancer for the NBA Sacramento Kings and the NBA Lakers and decided to move to Los Angeles. In LA, she trained martial arts, stunts, acting, and dance and studied under several coaches, including Lesly Kahn, Debbie Reynolds, and Zora DeHorter.
With these combined skills she appeared as a dancer in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004, with William Shatner, Stephen Root, and stunts by Spice Williams, Nicole Randall, and Joey Box), and performed stunts in Cursed (2005), Choker (2005, with Stacey Carino and Steve Rizzo), David Livingston's Threshold (2005, starring Brent Spiner), and House of the Dead 2 (2005, with David Mattey). Kim doubled lead actress Ellen Pompeo in the Grey's Anatomy episode As We Know It (2006), and appeared in Veronica Mars (2006), Numbers (2006, with Jade Quon), Monk (2006, with Sandra Nelson and Stanley Kamel), Reno 911! (2007), CSI: Miami (2007), Chuck (2007, with regular Tony Todd and stunts by Denney Pierce and Mark Wagner), and Californication (2008, with Pamela Adlon).
She doubled Lucy Liu in a Suntory Diet Draft Beer commercial, followed by stunt work for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), Rush Hour 3 (2007), The Dead Undead (2007, with Edward Conna and Spice Williams-Crosby), and the short film The Sled (2007). Further projects are Taken by Force (2008, with Branscombe Richmond), Ninja Cheerleaders (2008, with George Takei), and Black Dynamite (2008), in which she doubled actress Nicole Sullivan.
Kim's other credits include stunt work in The Girl from the Naked Eye (with Sidney Liufau and stunts by Jade Quon, Chien Funan, and Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom), Red Velvet, Crank: High Voltage (2009, with stunts by Robert Alonzo, Joey Anaya, Ilram Choi, Shauna Duggins, Justin Rodgers Hall, Heidi Moneymaker, Mark Muñoz, Katie Rowe, Trampas Thompson, and Spice Williams-Crosby), and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. She doubled actress Dichen Lachman in the Dollhouse episode "Stage Fright" and worked as stunt actress in the action films Ultimate Champion, Ballistica (with James Lew and stunt coordinator Cole McKay), and Dead Reckoning.
External links[]
- LaurenMaryKim.com – official site
- Lauren Kim at the Internet Movie Database
- World of Action profile(X)
- Lauren Mary Kim at ActorsAccess.com