Feodor Chin

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.

Early life

Chin 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.

Career

Film, television, and writing

Feodor 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.

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. 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. 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. The pilot also stars ''Baby'' co-stars David Huynh and Robert Wu, as well as Kelvin Han Yee. He received an Honorable Mention for the screenplay at the 2014 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival - Project Catalyst.

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.

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). Chin has also appeared as "Dan Chang" in the Lifetime film ''Lost Boy'', opposite Virginia Madsen.

Voicework

Chin may be best known for his voicework in video games, most notably voicing the robot monk Zenyatta in Blizzard Entertainment's game ''Overwatch'' and its sequel ''Overwatch 2'', and the reworked Lee Sin in Riot Games' ''League of Legends''. Other notable roles include Harunobu Adachi (both voice and PCAP) and the blind musician Yamato in ''Ghost of Tsushima'', and Splinter in '' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows''.

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. 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.

Feodor has narrated over 100 audiobooks and is a five-time Earphones Award Winner from '' AudioFile''. 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'' 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''.

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

Feodor 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. 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 antihero" and "sharp entrepreneur" seeking to bring a paper son back from China to help him build his laundry business and an unconventional family.

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

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

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21st-century American male actors
American comedians of Chinese descent
American male actors of Chinese descent
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American male television actors
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Comedians from San Francisco
Date of birth missing (living people)
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