Jake Choi

Jake Choi is an American actor who grew up in Elmhurst, Queens, New York, and took acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Institute after a detour into basketball at Yonsei University and in the Korean Basketball League. His first lead role came in 2015 in the independent film Front Cover (2016), and critics reviewed his performance positively, with Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter praising how he conveyed his character's transformation. Guest spots on Broad City, Younger and Hawaii 5-0 followed, along with a recurring part on Succession in 2018. He became better known as Miggy, a 20-year-old single dad, on the ABC comedy Single Parents, where he was a series regular until the show ended in 2020 after two seasons. He also had a recurring role on the Netflix dark comedy EastSiders and played Charles Bae in The Sun Is Also a Star (2019).