Native Angeleno Arif S. Kinchen is an acclaimed actor, musician, voice actor, and charity streamer on Twitch. He made his on-screen debut in the 1990 film House Party and is best known on-screen for his roles in BeverlyHood, Christmas in Compton, and as La Marr Hicks in Sparks.
Arif has an expansive voice-over resume including animation, feature films, AAA games, commercials, and on-air promos. Arif voices Jazz in Transformers: Robots in Disguise, multiple characters in The Mandalorian, Season 3 and Star vs. the Forces of Evil, and The Concrete Foreman in Pixar’s Elemental. Notable AAA games include Pierce Washington in the Saints Row franchise, multiple roles including Finn (FN-2187) in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, as well as Deathloop and Starfield.
His other voice acting work has included Marlow Briggs in Marlow Briggs, and the Mask of Death, Blacker Baron in Anarchy Reigns, Kenta Kasai in the Judgment series, and roles in Family Guy, MAD, Happy Feet, Celebrity Deathmatch, Sym-Bionic Titan, Bioshock Infinite, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road, Arcane, The Hijacking of Flight 601, and most recently the voice of Tirolesa in the English dub of New Bandits on Amazon Prime.
He also works in ADR, having done work on productions like Trolls World Tour, Pacific Rim: Uprising and Bolden.
Arif is passionate about helping children through @askBloodDrive, his stream on Twitch.tv. There, Arif raises money for Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles via The Children’s Miracle Network.
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You can learn more about Arif S. Kinchen on his IMDB page, his Behind the Voice Actors page, and follow him on Bluesky as @arifskinchen.bsky.social, Instagram as @arifskinchen, Tumblr as @arifskinchen, Twitch as @askBloodDrive, on his YouTube channel, or on his Facebook page.
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