Feodor Chin

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. [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]

Chin 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] as well as Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. He has also voiced characters in such games as Red Dead Redemption 2 (local pedestrian population voices), Far Cry 5 ("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), the 2013 game based on the Alien franchise, Aliens: Colonial Marines (as Weyland Yutani), The Bureau: XCOM Declassified and THQ's New Legends.[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][14]. 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.

Feodor has narrated over 100 audiobooks and is a five-time Earphones Award Winner from AudioFile (magazine).[15] [16] 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[17] 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.[18]

Chin has appeared on stage at The Colony Theater as "Jinwu" in Climbing Everest,[19] as Malcolm in A Noise Within theater's production of Macbeth,[20][21] as Dr. Albert Chang in John Pollono's Rules of Seconds,[22] as George Deever in The Matrix Theater Company's multi-racial production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons,[23] as Mr. Wang in Uranium Madhouse's production of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man,[24] A Winter People, Chay Yew's adaptation of The Cherry Orchard at the Boston Court in Pasadena,[19] as Chester in Artist at Play's production of Michael Golamco's Cowboy Versus Samurai,[25] and various plays with the Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, including Claim to Fame, Grace Kim and the Spiders from Mars, Ten to Life,[26] Choke, in the Company of Angels production of Henry Ong's Fabric[26] and in Chalk Repertory Theater's productions of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan,[27] The Flash Festival at the La Brea Tar Pits,[28] 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.[29][30]