Young Mazino

About

Christopher Young Kim (born August 27, 1991), known professionally as Young Mazino, is an American actor. He had his breakout role in the Netflix series Beef (2023), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. As of 2025, he stars in the HBO drama series The Last of Us as Jesse.

Christopher Young Kim was born in Maryland. He grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, raised by two Korean immigrant parents. He has two older sisters. His father immigrated to the United States from Korea at the age of 16. Mazino has a first-degree black belt in taekwondo.
He attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, but dropped out and moved to New York City in 2014 to attend the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, where he trained for a year.
Prior to his breakout role in Beef, Mazino was Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at LVMH’s Fresh for six years.

Mazino chose the moniker “Young Mazino” as his stage name in 2018. The name is a combination of Mazino’s Korean middle name and the name of a comic book character, Urek Mazino from Tower of God created by Korean Manhwa artist S.I.U. Mazino explained that he decided to take a stage name because there were too…