James Sie

James Sie (born December 18, 1962) is an American actor and voice actor, who has portrayed a multitude of characters in animated series and video games. He is known for his distinctively voice and has been playing mostly hero characters since the 2010s. for voicing Monkey in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (2011-16), he was nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards.

Career
He is known as a "Jackie Chan impersonator" as his voice bears a strong resemblance to Chan especially in the Kids' WB animated television series Jackie Chan Adventures. He also voices Shendu in the same series. He is the voice of Master Monkey for Nickelodeon's Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, replacing Jackie Chan from the movies (Sie voiced Monkey in all of the video games). Other popular roles include Chinese American footballer Kwan in Danny Phantom, Chen Lin in W.I.T.C.H., Fin Fang Foom and Radioactive Man in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and Eddy Raja in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Sie did several voices for Avatar: The Last Airbender, guest-voiced as an Asian scientist named Jimmy in Regular Show and also voices Lord Taran Zhu in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria. He had a brief role as a Buddhist Lama in the 2021 The Simpsons episode "Wad Goals".

He starred on-camera, opposite Suzy Nakamura in Strawberry Fields. He also had roles in Chain Reaction. Sie wrote and performed the autobiographical one-person stage show, Talking With My Hands in 1999, about growing up in a Chinese/Italian household. His play, Island of the Blue Dolphins at the Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 1995 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for New Work. James has also garnered two Jeff Citation nominations for his Lifeline adaptations of Dracula and A Wrinkle in Time, which was produced at Lincoln Center Institute in New York. He has received an After Dark Award for The Road to Graceland. His other adaptations include Randy Shilts' Talking AIDS to Death and Daniel Pinkwater's The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, which was also broadcast on WFMT's "Chicago Theatres on the Air".

TV Series

 * Girl from Nowhere (2018-2021) - Principal (ep. 15)
 * My First First Love (2019) - Tae-O's Father, Additional Voices
 * Extracurricular (2020) - Detective Nam
 * Hellbound (2021) - Director of NTBC (eps. 4-5), Additional Voices
 * All of Us are Dead (2022) - Additional Voices
 * Remarriage & Desires (2022) - Business Department Head Manager, Additional Voices

Films

 * Super Me (2019) - Pancake Vendor
 * Asakusa Kid (2021) - Jun Tayama

Animated Films

 * White Snake (2019) - Dark General
 * New Gods: Yang Jian (2022) - Shen Gongbao

Anime Films

 * When Marnie Was There (2014) - Kazuhiko

Video Game Dubbing

 * Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020) - Professor Hojo