Feodor Chin

Feodor Chin (born August 18, 1974) is an American actor, writer, voiceover artist, producer and director. Chin starred as the antagonist "Benny" in Juwan Chung's Baby opposite David Huynh, the protagonist. Baby won a Special Jury Award for Best Feature Length Film, Narrative at the 2007 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, among other awards.[1] He also starred as pioneering actor and artist Keye Luke in Timothy Tau's short film bio-pic Keye Luke, which premiered at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and which was also Closing Night Film of the inaugural 2013 Seattle Asian American Film Festival.[2][3] Chin also voices the character of Zenyatta from Blizzard Entertainment's game, Overwatch.

Feodor Chin
Chin at the 2017 Comic Con Revolution
Born (1974-08-18) August 18, 1974
San Francisco, California
OccupationActor, writer, director, voiceover artist, producer
Years active2000–present
Websitehttp://www.feodorchin.com

Chin was born and raised in San Francisco, California, and is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also trained at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.[4]

Film, Television and Writing

Under his banner Iron Oxide Productions, Chin also wrote, directed and starred in the short film "Spice It Up", which won an Audience Choice Award at the 2011 HollyShorts Film Festival.[5] Chin wrote, produced and starred in the TV Pilot "Golden Boy" (directed by William Lu), which has screened at film festivals such as the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the DisOrient Film Festival.

Chin has also written a pilot, along with Will Henning, for a TV series tentatively titled Chinatown Squad, about a police squad responsible for cleaning up corruption in 1890 San Francisco Chinatown and which Stephane Gauger directed and produced.[6] 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.[7][8] The pilot also stars Baby co-stars David Huynh and Robert Wu, as well as Kelvin Han Yee.[6][8] He received an Honorable Mention for the screenplay at the 2014 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival - Project Catalyst.[9]

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.[1] He also starred as Keye Luke in Timothy Tau's short film bio-pic Keye Luke, which screened at the 2012 and 2013 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, the DisOrient Film Festival, the Asian American International Film Festival, and which was also Closing Night Film of the inaugural 2013 Seattle Asian American Film Festival. Chin has also appeared in independent films such as Byron Q's Raskal Love (as Vanna Fut's father), Dominic Mah's What If People Died and Phil Gorn's S.F., short films such as William Lu's ATF: Asian Task Force (as well as an appearance in William Lu's feature film Comfort), and web Series such as Timothy Tau's Quantum Cops (as "Bronson Law") and Andrea Lwin's Slanted (playing "Truman", Andrea's brother).

As a writer, and in addition to writing Chinatown Squad, Golden Boy and Spice It Up!, Chin has also written, along with Jolene Kim, a pilot script for the TV project "Diamond Head", which won 1st Runner Up in the "Hawaii" category of the 12th Annual CAPE (Coalition for Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) New Writer Awards in 2012.[10]

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).[11][12] Chin has also appeared as "Dan Chang" in the Lifetime movie, Lost Boy, opposite Virginia Madsen.[12] Chin's other TV credits include roles on Speechless, Lopez (as John), New Girl (as the Waiter), The Mindy Project (as The Karate Guy), Bunheads (as Jason), The Bold and the Beautiful (as the International Buyer), Nash Bridges (as Jay), and General Hospital.[11][12]

Voicework

Chin has also done voicework for video and computer games, most notably voicing the robot monk Zenyatta in Blizzard Entertainment's game, Overwatch,[13] as well as Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. He has also done voices for games such as Red Dead Redemption 2 (local pedestrian population voices), Far Cry 5 (for the "Lost On Mars" Downloadable Content (DLC)), Metal Gear Survive (as Dan), Paladins (as Zhin), Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns (as Shiro Tagachi), Square Enix's Sleeping Dogs (as Tran), Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (as Mudmug) and World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, 2K Games' XCOM: Enemy Unknown (as Shaojie Zhang) and XCOM 2, Evolve(various voices), Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, the 2013 game based on the Alien franchise, Aliens: Colonial Marines (as Weyland Yutani), The Bureau: XCOM Declassified and THQ's New Legends.[12]

Chin has also 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 has also voiced characters in various animated series such as Regular Show (as Earl, Game and Joe) and the animated short Legendary Place (as Baba Lee), created by Calvin Wong and which screened on Cartoon Network and was also produced by Cartoon Network Studios.[12][14]

He also has performed voicework for audiobooks such 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[15] and has provided narrations for "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.[16]

Theatrical and Stage Work

Chin has also appeared on stage at The Colony Theater as "Jinwu" in Climbing Everest,[17] as Malcolm in A Noise Within theater's production of Macbeth,[18][19] as Dr. Albert Chang in John Pollono's Rules of Seconds,[20] as George Deever in The Matrix Theater Company's multi-racial production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons,[21] as Mr. Wang in Uranium Madhouse's production of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man,[22] A Winter People, Chay Yew's adaptation of The Cherry Orchard at the Boston Court in Pasadena,[17] as Chester in Artist at Play's production of Michael Golamco's Cowboy Versus Samurai,[23] and various plays with the Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, including Claim to Fame, Grace Kim and the Spiders from Mars, Ten to Life,[24] Choke, in the Company of Angels production of Henry Ong's Fabric[24] and in Chalk Repertory Theater's productions of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan,[25] The Flash Festival at the La Brea Tar Pits,[26] 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.[27][28]

Filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
2001Troy & JulieGreg
2007BabyBenny
2007ATF: Asian Task ForceDavidShort film
2009La La LandHenryTelevision film
2009Golden BoyScott WongTelevision film; also writer and producer
2010Spice It Up!ManShort film; also writer, director and producer
2011Law & ChicobanBronson LawTelevision film; also writer
2012Chinatown SquadPistol PeteTelevision film; also writer
2012Keye LukeKeye LukeShort film; also writer
2012The Moral Paper RouteFatherVideo short
2012What If People Died
2012Raskal LoveVanna's Father
2012Goodbye KittySpencerShort film
2013Hidden HillsOriental Oscar
2013Guitar HeroHoodlum #1Short film
2014Anita HoCousin Bruce
20151st DateGary Fong
2015Monkey King: Hero Is BackEvil Lord (voice)English version
2015Lost BoyDan ChangTelevision film
2015Jackson ArmsChuin
2016ComfortCute Couple (Man)
2016Miss StevensGuy Next to HerUncredited
2017Two Wongs Make a WhiteLester ChingVideo short
2017The Vomit Solution to Thirsty MenMan at Restaurant 1Short film

Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
2001Nash BridgesJayEpisode: "Blood Bots"
2011–2012SlantedTruman3 episodes
2013BunheadsJasonEpisode: "You Wanna See Something?"
2013The Bold and the BeautifulInternational Buyer3 episodes
2013The Mindy ProjectKarate GuyEpisode: "Christmas Party Sex Trap"
2014–2015Film Lab PresentsHenry, Obnoxious Guy, Guy in Bar7 episodes
2015Down & OutCell Phone GuyEpisode: "Everybody Out!"
2016New GirlWaiterEpisode: "Return to Sender"
2016LopezJohnEpisode: "George Goes All In"
2016–2017Regular ShowEarl, Joel, Game (voices)4 episodes
2018Jane the VirginDr. ParkEpisode: "Chapter Seventy-Eight"
2018The AffairChenEpisode: "Episode #4.5"
2018SpeechlessManEpisode: "L-O-N-- LONDON: Part 1"

Video games
YearTitleRoleNotes
2002New LegendsSun Soo, Flyer, Prison Guard #1
2011League of LegendsLee Sin
2012Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor
2012Sleeping DogsTran
2012World of Warcraft: Mists of PandariaMudmug
2012XCOM: Enemy UnknownShaojie Zhang
2013Aliens: Colonial MarinesWeyland Yutani
2013The Bureau: XCOM DeclassifiedAdditional Voices
2013Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the ShadowsSplinter
2014World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
2015EvolveAdditional Voices
2016XCOM 2U.S. Soldier
2016OverwatchZenyatta
2018PaladinsZhin
2018Metal Gear SurviveDan
2018Far Cry 5Lost on Mars DLC
2018Red Dead Redemption 2The Local Pedestrian Population
2020 Ghost of Tsushima Harunobu Adachi, Yamato, Goro
2020Wasteland 3Marshal Darius Kwon

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  13. "Here Are the Voice Actors of Overwatch". Twinfinite.
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