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Biography

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 Meat Award for Best Feature Length Film, Narrative at the 2007 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, among other awards. 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. Chin also voices the character of Zenyatta from Blizzard Entertainment's game, Overwatch.
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.

Film, Television & 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. 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. 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.

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. 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.

Chin has also appeared as "Dan Chang" in the Lifetime movie, Lost Boy, opposite Virginia Madsen. Chin's other TV credits include roles on Lopez (as John), New Girl (as the Waiter), the 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.

Voicework

Chin has 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. Chin has also done voicework for video and computer games, most notably voicing the robot monk Zenyatta in Blizzard Entertainment's game, Overwatch as well as Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. He has also done voices for games such as Square Enix's Sleeping Dogs (as Tran), Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (as Mudmug), 2K Games' XCOM: Enemy Unknown (as Shaojie Zhang) and XCOM 2, the 2013 game based on the Alien franchise, Aliens: Colonial Marines (as Weyland Yutani), The Bureau: XCOM Declassified and THQ's New Legends.

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 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.

Theatrical and Stage Work

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 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

  • Lopez (2016) - John
  • New Girl (2016) - Waiter
  • Lost Boy (2015) (Lifetime TV movie) - Dan Chang
  • The Mindy Project (2013) (TV) - The Karate Guy
  • The Bold and the Beautiful (2013) (TV) - International Buyer (3 Episodes)
  • Bunheads (2013) (TV) ("You Want to See Something?") - Jason
  • Keye Luke (2012) - Keye Luke
  • Chinatown Squad (2012) - Pistol Pete (Also Writer) (Directed by Stephane Gauger)
  • What If People Died (2011)
  • Quantum Cops (2011) - Bronson Law
  • Slanted (2011) - Truman
  • Spice It Up! (2010) - Man (Also Writer, Director, Producer)
  • Golden Boy (2009) - Scott Wong (Also Writer, Producer)
  • ATF: Asian Task Force (2007) - David
  • Jackson Arms (2007) - Chuin
  • S.F. (2001) - Greg
  • Nash Bridges (2001) (TV) ("Blood Bots") - Jay

Selected Voicework

  • Overwatch (2016) - Zenyatta
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2013) - Splinter
  • Aliens: Colonial Marines (2013) - Weyland Yutani
  • Sleeping Dogs (2012) - Tran
  • World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (2012) - Mudmug
  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012) - as Shaojie Zhang,
  • New Legends (2002) - Sun Soo, Flyer, Prison Guard #1

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