Blockbuster, a brand-new half-hour comedy that launched on Netflix today, November 3, stars Randall Park as stressed-out Timmy, who learns that his Blockbuster franchise is about to become the last one in the nation. Timmy is now scrambling to come up with a way to keep the store financially afloat without the corporation’s help.

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Who is Randall Park?

Born on March 23, 1974, Randall Park is an American actor, comedian, and writer.

Park was raised in Castle Heights, Los Angeles, where he was born to Korean immigrant parents. His father ran a one-hour photo shop, while his mother worked as an accountant at the University of California, Los Angeles. Park completed the humanities magnet programme at Hamilton High School.

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Park’s first quarter at UCLA was the winter quarter of 1993. In 1995, while still a student, he co-founded “Lapu, the Coyote that Cares,” the largest and longest-running Asian American theatre group on campus, which is now known as the LCC Theatre Company. He credits his time at LCC with inspiring him to pursue a career in acting, and he would later collaborate with other of its alumni. A full-length play by Park called Treehouse Bachelor Society was performed there for the first time.

In the 2003 short film Dragon of Love, which won Best Short Film at the Hawaii International Film Festival, Park made his acting debut as the lead.

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In the 2005 Hawaii International Film Festival’s Audience Award-winning film American Fusion, directed by UCLA alumni Frank Lin, Park co-wrote the screenplay and played the lead role. It served as Pat Morita’s final performance before passing away in November of that same year. The screenplay made it to the 2009 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting quarterfinals.

He has made multiple appearances in Channel 101 web programmes, such as Dr. Miracles and IKEA Heights. Additionally, he has made appearances in a couple Wong Fu Productions short movies. He rose to fame in 2012 for his role as Steve, an impersonation of Jim Halpert (also known as “Asian Jim”) in an episode of the NBC sitcom The Office.

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In the ABC comedy Fresh Off the Boat (2014–2020), he played American restaurateur Louis Huang, Eddie Huang’s father. For this role, he was nominated for the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2016. He played Kim Jong-Un in the 2014 film The Interview. He co-wrote and performed in the 2019 Netflix romantic comedy film Always Be My Maybe with Ali Wong. He also played the recurring role of Governor Danny Chung in the HBO comedy series Veep.

Additionally, he can be seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s 2018 film Ant-Man and the Wasp as Agent Jimmy Woo, the 2021 miniseries WandaVision, and the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. He also has an appearance in the DC Extended Universe’s 2018 film Aquaman as Dr. Stephen Shin.

Park is married to Jae Suh Park, an actress. They collaborated on The Mindy Project and the short film Love, NY, and they live in the San Fernando Valley with their daughter Ruby.

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Ruby Louise Park, Park and Jae Suh’s daughter, was born in 2012. Ruby Louise co-starred as a crime-fighting baby superhero in Baby Mentalist, a comedy web series created by her father in 2013. Ruby Louise is autistic, as Park discussed on Mike Birbiglia’s podcast Working it Out. Park supports the non-profit KultureCity, which focuses on “sensory accessibility and acceptance for those with invisible disabilities.”