Daniel K Isaac

Daniel K. Isaac is a writer and actor from the United States. He is well recognized for his portrayal as Ben Kim in Showtime's Billions. Isaac's parents are Korean immigrants. His mother raised him as a single parent in California, and he grew up multilingual. Isaac is the only child in the family. He graduated with honors from the University of California, San Diego, with a bachelor's degree in theatre. Isaac invented the hashtag #AccordingToMyMother in 2015 to highlight amusing discussions he had with his mother. He then launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a fictitious short film about their love, According to My Mother, which became a television pilot, was produced by Isaac, Cathy Yan, and Devin Landin, and he also appeared in it. It aired in October 2016 at the New York Television Festival, where it won Best Drama. For his performance, Isaac won the award for Best Actor in a Drama.

Since the show's debut in 2016, Isaac has played Ben Kim on Billions. The character was only supposed to appear in two to three episodes, but the writers decided to include him in every episode of the first two seasons. He also appears as a bike courier with a foot fetish in Margaret Cho's BDSM-themed online series Mercy Mistress. In May 2018, he played William Inge in an off-Broadway production of Philip Dawkins' The Gentleman Caller. In the first season of the 2019 Comedy Central series The Other Two, Isaac played Jeremy Delongpre in a recurring role. Isaac is a homosexual man. From the ages of 13 to 16, he willingly underwent homosexual conversion therapy. When he was a student in college, his mother, a fervent Christian, rejected him for being homosexual. Isaac subsequently came to terms with his sexuality.