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Randall Park

Randall Park, American actor, director and screenwriter

Born
March 23, 1974
Age in 2026
52
Zodiac sign
Aries
Birth year
1974

About Randall Park

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). Their first performance was Treehouse Bachelor Society, a full-length play written by Park, at the Northwest Auditorium. Park co-founded the Propergander theater group with a few LCC alumni. There he co-founded "Lapu, the Coyote that Cares," the largest and longest-running on-campus Asian American theater company, now known as the LCC Theatre Company, in 1995.

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The world when Randall Park was born

Randall Park was born in 1974. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1974

  • #1 song"The Way We Were" – Barbra Streisand
  • Top movieThe Godfather Part II
  • Top TV showAll in the Family
  • Best-selling bookJaws – Peter Benchley

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentHank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's all-time home run record (715)
  • Top headlinePresident Nixon resigns from office
  • Technology milestoneUniversal Product Code (UPC barcode) scanned for the first time
  • Defining fadStreaking
  • Notable inventionPost-it Note bookmark prototype
  • World population4.01 billion

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderRichard Nixon / Gerald Ford
  • Sports championOakland Athletics (World Series)
  • Also wonBoston Celtics (NBA)
  • U.S. population213.9M

1974 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Randall Park's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19742026
Gas$0.53$3.45/gal
Average home$25,200$435,000
Average income$14,200$67,500
Minimum wage$2.00$7.25/hr (federal)
Movie ticket$1.87$11.95
Postage stamp$0.10$0.73
Population213.9M341 million

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