Young Mazino

Some Lesser Known Facts About Young Mazino

• Young Mazino is a renowned actor who works in Korean and American films.

• Mazion was born in Montgomery County, Maryland and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland.

• Both his parents are Korean immigrants who moved to the USA. In an interview, Mazino shared that when his father was 16, he moved to Maryland, USA.

• Mazino has a first-degree black belt in taekwondo.

• Although formally trained as a musician, he had a great interest in acting, exploring film and theatre throughout his childhood and into college. He started playing the violin at four years old and has maintained a lifelong connection with music. He also plays the guitar and frequently composes music in his spare time.

• Mazino’s father is a computer engineer with 5 master’s degrees in cybersecurity and computer systems. He also has a PhD in theology. In an interview, Young Mazino mentioned that it was his mother who encouraged him to participate in extracurricular and artistic activities, such as reading and violin lessons.

• He has two older sisters. In an interview, talking about his sisters, he said

I grew up with two older sisters, so that dynamic was different. In my house, if I raised my voice or showed any emotional outbursts, it was game over for me.”

• In an interview, Mazino mentioned that his parents were very conservative and religious. They went to church multiple days a week. Being the only son, he was raised with the militant idea that men don’t cry or show emotion.

• From a young age, Mazino was trained in surfing. During his summer vacations, he also worked as a surf rescue technician at Ocean City Beach Patrol in Maryland, USA.

• From May 2012 to March 2014, he worked as an inside sales specialist at Choice Hotels International in Rockville, Maryland, USA.

• In 2013, after lots of struggle and rejection, Young Mazino bagged his debut role in a short film titled Digging (2013).

• To brush up on his acting skills, Mazino dropped out of the University of Maryland, Baltimore and moved to New York to pursue acting. He also joined Stella Adler Studio of Acting, New York, where he was trained in acting for one year.

• In an interview, he mentioned that to cover his daily expenses in New York, he had started working as a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at the skincare company Fresh, Inc. in New York City. He has worked there for six years from 2014 to 2020.

• In an interview, Young Maziono mentioned that he attended auditions and acted in theatre plays while working at Fresh, Inc. He added that he had built a strong bond with his boss, who never denied him the opportunity to go for any audition.

• In 2017, he performed live theatre in New York in the off-Broadway production show titled “Comfort Woman”

• In 2018, Mazino joined the Screen Actors Guild, an American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

• In an interview, Young Mazino revealed that when he was registering with the Screen Actors Guild, he found that there were too many actors with his real name, Christopher Young Kim. So he decided to change his name to Young Mazino, which is a combination of his middle name with a character from the name of a comic book character, Urek Mazino from Tower of God, created by Korean artist S.I.U.

• In an interview, he revealed that during the COVID-19 pandemic, he had no survival job, so he started trading in stocks and experimenting with crypto, like Dogecoin. Mazino also left New York City and started living a semi-nomadic lifestyle, biking cross-country and making a documentary with friends.

• Young Mazino appeared in various hit television shows such as Blindspot (2016), New Amsterdam (2018), Blue Bloods (2019), and Prodigal Son (2020), before earning a breakout role in the Netflix hit series Beef (2023). For this performance, he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor.

• In 2024, Mazino joined the cast of season 2 of the HBO series The Last of Us (2025) as Jesse.

  

• He is an avid animal lover. He also owns a cat and a dog.

  

• Mazino enjoys photography in his free time.

• He enjoys watching animated, action and gaming movies.

• Young Mazino is an avid fitness lover and follows a strict workout regimen to stay fit and active.

• He loves bicycle riding with his friends. He also enjoys trekking and camping in hilly areas.