Jake Choi

Choi was born January 14, 1985,[4] and raised in Elmhurst, Queens, New York. He is Korean American.[5] He was raised by his single mother, and came from "working-class immigrant roots."[6] During high school he played in the AAU.[7] He graduated from Newtown High School in 2004, where he played on the school varsity basketball team.[7]

After graduating, he moved to South Korea to play basketball at Yonsei University, and subsequently played in the Korean Basketball League.[5][8] He returned to the States and pursued acting, taking classes at Lee Strasberg Institute.[7][8]

In 2015, Choi played his first lead role as Ryan in the independent film Front Cover,[9] an LGBTQ romantic comedy that featured two Asian male leads.[10][11][12] Choi's performance received positive critical reviews.[13] According to Sheri Linden at The Hollywood Reporter: "Chen’s career-driven Ning defies easy labels, but ultimately the movie is about Ryan’s transformation, one that Choi deftly conveys."[14]

Choi has appeared in guest roles on several television shows since 2015, including Broad City, Younger, and Hawaii 5-0.[7] He played a recurring role on HBO's Succession in 2018.[15]

Choi gained wider prominence after he was cast as a series regular on the fall 2018 ABC show Single Parents in the role of Miggy, a 20-year-old single dad.[15][16] The show was cancelled in May 2020 after two seasons.[17]

As of January 2019, he has a recurring role on EastSiders, a Netflix dark comedy.[18] The same year, he played Charles Bae, brother of Charles Melton's Daniel Bae, in the film adaptation of the YA novel The Sun Is Also a Star.[8]

In 2018, Choi came out as sexually fluid.[8]

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