Abraham Lim

**Abraham Lincoln Lim** is an American actor and director. He portrayed Kenji Miyashiro in *The Boys*.

## Biography

Lim earned a BFA and an MFA in film from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. During his studies, he worked as an editor and director of music videos at Riviera Films, as well as working for National Video Center and Betelgeuse, some of the top editing houses in New York.

In 1997 the film he produced for his MFA thesis, Fly, garnered several awards at NYU's First Run Film Festival for best directing, acting, editing, and cinematography. The film was later invited to the Directors Guild of America screening. Director Robert Altman saw Fly and invited Lim to Los Angeles to meet. After their meeting at the mixing session of The Gingerbread Man, Altman hired Lim to edit Cookie's Fortune. Lim then went on to partner with Altman by editing Killer App, a Fox TV pilot written by Garry Trudeau.

Lim made his directorial, writing, and acting debut with the feature film Roads and Bridges (2000). It centers on a friendship between a Chinese man and a Black man in Kansas, inspired by Lim's experience with a road crew in his youth. Altman was one of the executive producers. The film was featured at many festivals, including the St. Louis International Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, and Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, where it made its world premiere.

In 2002, Lim was part of Fox Searchlight’s Searchlab, a program for emerging directors. Toy, his short film about a Los Angeles sex worker, was selected to screen at Sundance Film Festival in 2003. Lim's screenplay The Achievers was a finalist for HBO’s Project Greenlight. The Achievers is a 2006 film he directed, starring Akie Kotabe, Dave Lee and Samantha Quan. In 2005, Lim won a grant from the NAATA media fund, which was founded to support Asian-American filmmakers, and his script Hong Kong Hero was selected for participation in Tribeca All Access Connects, an initiative of the Tribeca Film Festival to showcase screenwriters of color. In 2006, Lim was selected to participate in the Korean Film Council and the University of Hawaiʻi's Academy for Creative Media inagural KOFIC Filmmakers Development Lab for screenwriting.

In 2010, Lim directed God is D ad, a road movie about young adults going to a comic convention in the late 1980s. The film won Best Feature at the Korean Film Festival of Los Angeles and Phoenix Fan Fusion (formerly Phoenix Comic Con) and was also featured at the International Film Festival of India and the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2013, Lim produced and directed a pilot for Spike TV featuring Quinton Jackson. In 2017, Lim's coming-of-age road movie Where is Wang Hao? premiered at the Golden Sun Film Awards Festival and was released on a Chinese internet movie channel.

## Credits

### Season 2

* "The Big Ride" Kenji Miyashiro
* "Proper Preparation and Planning" Kenji Miyashiro
* "Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men" Kenji Miyashiro

## External Links

* Abraham Lim on Wikipedia
* Abraham Lim at the Internet Movie Database
* Follow Abraham Lim (@realabrahamlim) on Twitter
* Follow Abraham Lim on Instagram