- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Born and raised in the Los Feliz suburb of Los Angeles, Elbert attended UC Berkeley for his undergraduate work before settling in Boston after completing law school. While at Berkeley, he was the men's Taekwondo Team Captain where he led his team to 4 consecutive national collegiate team titles. He was awarded the Male Collegiate MVP of the Year during his junior year and represented the United States at the World University TKD Championships in Guadalajara Mexico where he won the bronze medal. He currently holds a 7th degree black belt with the World TKD Federation.
He was trained by his father, Master Yong Kil Kim, who owned one of the very first TKD schools in Los Angeles in the early 1970s (formerly located prominently in the Hollywood area on Vermont Avenue, across from Los Angeles City College). His students were regular guests opposite John Belushi's Samurai character during the early years of Saturday Night Live.
He recently played the role of personal attorney for Academy Award winning actress Marlee Matlin's character in the 2022 Oscar Best Picture winner "CODA". He also played a small role as a fellow gambler opposite Tsai Chin (Joy Luck Club) in the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival sponsored Lucky Grandma, and "Dr. Albert Kim" in the Hulu comedy "Vacation Friends" starring John Cena, Meredith Hagner and Robert Wisdom.
- IMDb mini biography by: Elbert Kim
- Race / EthnicityAsian
- Worked on the set of That's Incredible! (1980) for several days as a translator for guests who performed on the show starring John Davidson, Fran Tarkenton and Cathy Lee Crosby.
- Was coached by Master Simon Rhee at the 1986 U.S. Taekwondo Nationals. Master Rhee is a prominent stunt coordinator based out of Los Angeles.
- Fellow colleague and teammate with Will Yun Lee on the men's Taekwondo team at the University of California at Berkeley.
- Met Mary Hart when his father, Yong Kil Kim was interviewed for the television show Evening (1976).
- Elbert's sister Renee served as the personal assistant for the Vanna White family under ex-husband George Santo Pietro.
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