Kario Salem (born May 23, 1955) is an American television, film, stage actor and screenwriter.
He also won as Brad Stephens in Hawaii Five-O season 8 episode, "The Deadly Persuasion".
In 1991, Salem won a Drama-Logue award for his performance in Richard Greenberg's The Extra Man at South Coast Repertory Theater, as well as a Boston Critics award for his performance as "Cousins" in George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara with Cherry Jones at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge.
In 2018, Salem was hired[2] by Warner Bros./DC Films to write the screenplay for the comic-book movie based on Jack Kirby's New Gods, directed by Ava DuVernay.
Known as K.O.,[4] personal support from Bob Dylan, Juval Aviv, and many more has helped spread his music to the masses.