Feodor Chin is an American actor, writer, and comedian from San Francisco, California. As an actor, he was classically trained at UCLA, the American Conservatory Theater, and has studied with renowned acting coach, Larry Moss. He was a Maude Night performer at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre for three seasons. TV credits include Big Little Lies, Good Trouble, American Auto, Pam & Tommy, Medical Police, Lethal Weapon, Jane the Virgin, The Affair, Speechless, and New Girl. Animation credits include the title role in Netflix's Uncle from Another World, Futurama, Marvel's Hit-Monkey and What If...?, and Cartoon Network's Regular Show. He is the voice of Zenyatta and Lee Sin in the hit video games, Overwatch / Overwatch 2 and League of Legends. He was a performer for the ABC Discovers Talent Showcase and a writer for the CBS Diversity Comedy Showcase.
Feodor Chin | |
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 Chin at the 2017 Comic Con Revolution | |
| Born | |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, producer, writer, director |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Spouse | Jessica Rau (m. 2018) |
| Website | http://feodorchin.com |
Early life
editChin was born and raised in San Francisco, California, and attended Lowell High School where he found an interest in acting, taking drama classes and performing in musicals in the Carol Channing auditorium (named for one of Lowell's most notable alumni). He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, and though his major was Communication Studies, he spent most of his time in the theater department, taking classes and acting in plays and student films. He trained at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.[1]
Career
editFilm, Television and Writing
editFeodor made his SXSW Film Festival debut in 2023 as the fertility doctor in Leah McKendrick's comedy about a broke, single millennial freezing her eggs, Scrambled from Lionsgate.[2][3]
Under his banner Iron Oxide Productions, Chin wrote, directed and starred in the short film Spice It Up, which won an Audience Choice Award at the 2011 HollyShorts Film Festival.[4] Chin wrote, produced and starred in the TV Pilot Golden Boy (directed by William Lu), which screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the DisOrient Film Festival.
Chin wrote a pilot, along with Will Henning, for a TV series titled Chinatown Squad, about a police squad responsible for cleaning up corruption in 1890 San Francisco Chinatown and which Stephane Gauger directed and produced.[5] In it, he stars as Pistol Pete, a Chinatown mob boss who dons European clothes, a character who is also based on the real-life historical figure of Little Pete.[6][7] The pilot also stars Baby co-stars David Huynh and Robert Wu, as well as Kelvin Han Yee.[5][7] He received an Honorable Mention for the screenplay at the 2014 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival - Project Catalyst.[8]
Chin played the antagonist "Benny" in Juwan Chung's Baby opposite the protagonist "Baby", played by David Huynh - the film won a Special Jury Award for Best Feature Length Film, Narrative at the 2007 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, among other accolades.[9]
On TV, Chin has appeared on Big Little Lies (as Kevin), The Affair (as Chen), Jane the Virgin (as Dr. Park), Lethal Weapon (as The Florist), Future Man (as the Bartender), Weird City (as Doctor Lance), and Good Trouble (as Jian).[10][11] Chin has also appeared as "Dan Chang" in the Lifetime movie, Lost Boy, opposite Virginia Madsen.[11]
Voicework
editChin may be best known for his voicework in video games,[12] most notably voicing the robot monk Zenyatta in Blizzard Entertainment's game Overwatch[13] and its sequel Overwatch 2,[14] and the reworked Lee Sin in Riot Games' League of Legends.[15] Other notable roles include Harunobu Adachi (both voice and PCAP) and the blind musician Yamato in Ghost of Tsushima,[16] and Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.[11]
Chin voiced the title character of Ojisan/Uncle in the Netflix English-language version of the Japanese anime series Uncle from Another World. He has also voiced characters in animated series such as Marvel's Hit-Monkey (as Police Captain, The Real Rooster, News Anchor, Baldy, etc.), Cartoon Network's Regular Show (as Earl, Game and Joe), and the animated short Legendary Place (as Baba Lee) created by Calvin Wong, which screened on Cartoon Network and was also produced by Cartoon Network Studios.[11][17] Chin voiced the main villain "Evil Lord" in the animated CG film Monkey King: Hero is Back, also starring the voices of Jackie Chan and James Hong. He took over the supporting role of Amy Wong's father Leo Wong in the 2023 revival of Futurama, replacing Billy West.[18]
Feodor has narrated over 100 audiobooks and is a five-time Earphones Award Winner from AudioFile.[19][20] He has narrated such titles as Timothy Dalrymple's Jeremy Lin: The Reason for the Linsanity and received an Earphones Award from AudioFile for his narration of Snakehead by Patrick Raden Keefe and for his narration of Richard C. Morais' Buddhaland Brooklyn[21] and has added his voice to "Books on Tapes" selections including Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jay Caspian Kang's The Dead Do Not Improve, Ed Lin's Ghost Month, Joyful Wisdom, Journey of a Thousand Miles, and The Physics of the Impossible.[22]
Starting in season 8 of Futurama, Chin became the new voices of Leo Wong and Scoop Chang who were previously voiced in earlier seasons by Billy West and Maurice LaMarche.
Theatrical and Stage Work
editFeodor Chin returned to the Bay Area in the Spring of 2024 to make his Berkeley Repertory Theatre debut in the West Coast Premiere of The Far Country, Lloyd Suh's Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist play. [23][24] In this critically acclaimed play set in San Francisco and Angel Island Immigration Station during the years of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Chin portrayed Gee, "the witty anithero" and "sharp entrepreneur" seeking to bring a paper son back from China to help him build his laundry business and an unconventional family. [25][26][27][28][29][30]
Chin has also appeared on stage at The Colony Theater as "Jinwu" in Climbing Everest,[31] as Malcolm in A Noise Within theater's production of Macbeth,[32][33] as Dr. Albert Chang in John Pollono's Rules of Seconds,[34] as George Deever in The Matrix Theater Company's multi-racial production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons,[35] as Mr. Wang in Uranium Madhouse's production of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man,[36] A Winter People, Chay Yew's adaptation of The Cherry Orchard at the Boston Court in Pasadena,[31] as Chester in Artist at Play's production of Michael Golamco's Cowboy Versus Samurai,[37] and various plays with the Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, including Claim to Fame, Grace Kim and the Spiders from Mars, Ten to Life,[38] Choke, in the Company of Angels production of Henry Ong's Fabric[38] and in Chalk Repertory Theater's productions of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan,[39] The Flash Festival at the La Brea Tar Pits,[40] The Debate Over Courtney O'Connell of Columbus, and in Anton Chekov's Three Sisters (as Andrei Sergeevich Prozorov) opposite Joy Osmanski and Ricardo Antonio Chavira, which was staged at the Historic Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.[41][42]
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Troy & Julie | Greg | |
| 2007 | Baby | Benny | |
| 2007 | ATF: Asian Task Force | David | Short film |
| 2009 | La La Land | Henry | Television film |
| 2009 | Golden Boy | Scott Wong | Television film; also writer and producer |
| 2010 | Spice It Up! | Man | Short film; also writer, director and producer |
| 2011 | Law & Chicoban | Bronson Law | Television film; also writer |
| 2012 | Chinatown Squad | Pistol Pete | Television film; also writer |
| 2012 | Keye Luke | Keye Luke | Short film; also writer |
| 2012 | The Moral Paper Route | Father | Video short |
| 2012 | What If People Died | ||
| 2012 | Raskal Love | Vanna's Father | |
| 2012 | Goodbye Kitty | Spencer | Short film |
| 2013 | Hidden Hills | Oriental Oscar | |
| 2013 | Guitar Hero | Hoodlum #1 | Short film |
| 2014 | Anita Ho | Cousin Bruce | |
| 2015 | 1st Date | Gary Fong | |
| 2015 | Monkey King: Hero Is Back | Evil Lord (voice) | English version |
| 2015 | Lost Boy | Dan Chang | Television film |
| 2015 | Jackson Arms | Chuin | |
| 2016 | Comfort | Cute Couple (Man) | |
| 2016 | Miss Stevens | Guy Next to Her | Uncredited |
| 2017 | Two Wongs Make a White | Lester Ching | Video short |
| 2017 | The Vomit Solution to Thirsty Men | Man at Restaurant 1 | Short film |
| 2022 | 40ish | Ron | Short film |
| 2022 | The Unquiet Dead | Dr. Burke | Short film |
| 2023 | Scrambled | Doctor | Feature film |
| 2023 | Godzilla Minus One | Additional voices | English dub |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Nash Bridges | Jay | Episode: "Blood Bots" |
| 2011–2012 | Slanted | Truman | 3 episodes |
| 2013 | Bunheads | Jason | Episode: "You Wanna See Something?" |
| 2013 | The Bold and the Beautiful | International Buyer | 3 episodes |
| 2013 | The Mindy Project | Karate Guy | Episode: "Christmas Party Sex Trap" |
| 2014–2015 | Film Lab Presents | Henry, Obnoxious Guy, Guy in Bar | 7 episodes |
| 2015 | Down & Out | Cell Phone Guy | Episode: "Everybody Out!" |
| 2016 | New Girl | Waiter | Episode: "Return to Sender" |
| 2016 | Lopez | John | Episode: "George Goes All In" |
| 2016–2017 | Regular Show | Earl, Joel, Game (voices) | 4 episodes |
| 2018 | Jane the Virgin | Dr. Park | Episode: "Chapter Seventy-Eight" |
| 2018 | The Affair | Chen | Episode: "Episode #4.5" |
| 2018 | Speechless | Man | Episode: "L-O-N-- LONDON: Part 1" |
| 2018 | Legendary Place | Baba Lee (voice) | Pilot |
| 2019 | Weird City | Doctor Lance | Episode: "Go to College" |
| 2019 | Lethal Weapon | The Florist | Episode: "A Game of Chicken" |
| 2019 | Good Trouble | Jian | Episode: "Vitamin C" |
| 2019 | Big Little Lies | Kevin | Episode: "Kill Me" |
| 2020 | Medical Police | Lead Detective | Episode: "Everybody Panic!" |
| 2020 | Bulge Bracket | Bolo | Series regular |
| 2021 | Hit-Monkey | Police Captain, The Real Rooster, News Anchor, EMT 2, Talking Head 2, Warden, Baldy, Gambling Yakuza Boss, Guard (voices) | Recurring role |
| 2022 | Pam & Tommy | 1st AD on Baywatch set, VH1 Behind the Music voice | 2 episodes |
| 2022 | Curious George | Bellhop #1 (voice) | Episode: "Hawai'i" |
| 2023 | Welcome to Chippendales | Prison Guard #2 | Episode: "Switzerland" |
| 2022–2023 | Uncle from Another World | Ojisan (English voice) | Series regular |
| 2023 | American Auto | Eric | Episode: "Hack" |
| 2023–present | Futurama | Leo Wong, Scoop Chang (voices) | Replaced Billy West and Maurice LaMarche |
| 2023 | What If...? | Xu Wenwu (voice) | 2 episodes |
Video games
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | New Legends | Sun Soo, Flyer, Prison Guard #1 | |
| 2011 | League of Legends | Lee Sin | |
| 2012 | Sleeping Dogs | Tran | |
| 2012 | World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria | Mudmug | |
| 2012 | XCOM: Enemy Unknown | Shaojie Zhang | |
| 2013 | Aliens: Colonial Marines | Weyland Yutani | |
| 2013 | The Bureau: XCOM Declassified | Additional Voices | |
| 2013 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | Splinter | |
| 2014 | World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor | ||
| 2015 | Evolve | Additional Voices | |
| 2016 | XCOM 2 | U.S. Soldier | |
| 2016 | Overwatch | Zenyatta | |
| 2018 | Paladins | Zhin | |
| 2018 | Metal Gear Survive | Dan | |
| 2018 | Far Cry 5 | Lost on Mars DLC | |
| 2018 | Red Dead Redemption 2 | The Local Pedestrian Population | |
| 2020 | Ghost of Tsushima | Harunobu Adachi, Yamato, Goro | |
| 2020 | Wasteland 3 | Marshal Darius Kwon | |
| 2020 | Yakuza: Like a Dragon | Additional voices | [43] |
| 2022 | Ghostwire: Tokyo | Hannya, Man C | [44] |
| 2022 | Overwatch 2 | Zenyatta | |
| 2024 | Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth | Masafumi Narasaki | [45] |
References
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- ^ "Scrambled the movie". IMDb. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
- ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (January 11, 2023). "SXSW Lineup Includes 'Dungeons & Dragons' On Opening Night, 'Evil Dead Rise', Eva Longoria's 'Flamin' Hot', A24's 'Problemista' & More". deadline.com. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
- ^ "7th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival Audience Choice Awards". HollyShorts. August 24, 2011. Archived from the original on November 9, 2011. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
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- ^ "Chinatown Squad Spec Trailer".
- ^ a b Toka, Tony. "Chinatown Squad - Behind The Scenes".
- ^ "Visual Communications, LAAPFF Festival Award Winners".
- ^ "Award Winners | Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival". Asianfilmfestla.org. Archived from the original on January 10, 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ^ "Feodor Chin, UCB Comedy, User Profile".
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- ^ "VAM 178 | Interview with Feodor Chin, Part 1". Voice Acting Mastery with Crispin Freeman. Apple Podcasts. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
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- ^ "All Overwatch 2 hero voice actors: Lifeweaver, D.Va, Mercy, Reinhardt, Kiriko & more".
- ^ "Feodor Chin Twitter Announcement". Twitter. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
- ^ "Ghost of Tsushima Out Now". FeodorChin.com. July 18, 2020.
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- ^ "Futurama Season 11 Confirms New Leo Wong Voice Actor". ComicBook.com. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
- ^ "Reviews of books narrated by Feodor Chin". AudioFile. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
- ^ "Audiobooks narrated by Feodor Chin". Audible. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
- ^ "Audiobook Reviews, Buddhaland Brooklyn, Richard C. Morais, Read by Feodor Chin".
- ^ "Books Read by Feodor Chin". Booksontape.com. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
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- ^ "Finalist: The Far Country, by Lloyd Suh". The Pulitzer Prizes. Pulitzer.org. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
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