Sean Chiplock

Sean Chiplock’s Quiet Rise from Michigan to the Frontlines of Game and Anime Dubbing

Growing up in Saginaw, Michigan, Sean Chiplock spent childhood hours narrating Nintendo 64 games aloud with his younger brother – games that had no voice acting at all. That habit of inventing character voices for silent protagonists turned out to be the most honest rehearsal possible for a career in localization. A graduate of Western Michigan University, Chiplock made his professional debut in 2012 and relocated to Los Angeles, where he steadily built a reputation with Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Studiopolis, FUNimation/Crunchyroll, SDI Media, and VSI Los Angeles.

The Zelda Legacy – Revali, Teba, and the Great Deku Tree

Landing three distinct roles inside a single flagship Nintendo title marked a turning point. As Revali in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Chiplock delivered a character whose self-assured condescension became one of gaming’s most quoted personality traits – a sharp contrast to the silent protagonist standing opposite him. He reprised Revali and Teba in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and voiced the Great Deku Tree in Tears of the Kingdom, giving him one of the deeper footprints in the entire Hyrule franchise for any English voice actor.

Re:Zero and the Weight of Subaru Natsuki

Subaru Natsuki is a character designed to break. Re:Zero forces him through grief, failure, and psychological collapse across hundreds of restarts, and Chiplock had to find a credible emotional bottom for each cycle without tipping into monotony. The performance earned him consistent recognition from the anime dubbing community and cemented his standing as a lead anchor for long-running emotional properties.

From Trails of Cold Steel to Genshin Impact

Rean Schwarzer in NIS America’s Trails of Cold Steel series gave Chiplock one of JRPG localization’s longest ongoing commitments – a character tracked across multiple full-length titles. Diluc in Genshin Impact, meanwhile, placed his voice inside one of the highest-played games on the planet. The role reached audiences across mobile, PC, and console, significantly expanding his recognition beyond dedicated anime and JRPG fanbases.