Kim Olsen (born 23 March 1965; age 59) worked as Key Grip in the camera and electrical department of Star Trek Beyond. [1]
Born in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Olsen graduated in Electronics Engineering Technology from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. He started to work as grip for film and television in the late 1980s with credits in the television series The Ray Bradbury Theater, 21 Jump Street, Booker, The Adventures of Black Stallion, The Commish (co-starring Kaj-Erik Eriksen), Nightmare Cafe (1992), and The X-Files (1996, working with directors Kim Manners and Rob Bowman).
Further credits as grip/key grip include Arctic Blue (1993), Little Women (1994, with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst), Murder in My Mind (1997), the television series Sleepwalkers (1997, starring Bruce Greenwood), Three (1998, starring Bumper Robinson and David Warner), Strange World (2000), Dark Angel (2001, starring John Savage), and Smallville (2001, starring John Glover), Cats & Dogs (2001), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004, with Karl Urban), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Underworld: Evolution (2006), Scary Movie 4 (2006), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, with Patrick Stewart and produced by Stan Lee, Bryan Singer, and Ralph Winter), Tron: Legacy (2010), Final Destination 5 (2011), Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011), and Seventh Son (2014).
More recently, Olsen worked as key grip on Tomorrowland (2015, written and produced by Damon Lindelof, produced by Jeffrey Chernov, music by Michael Giacchino, cinematography by Claudio Miranda, and production design by Scott Chambliss), Monster Trucks (2015), and Hidden (2015).