James Sie

Sie's strangest job title is voice double. On Jackie Chan Adventures he voiced the animated Jackie Chan, which meant matching a real and extremely famous speaking rhythm for a full run of television without ever being the man himself.

His most quoted work runs to about four words. As the Cabbage Merchant on Avatar: The Last Airbender he plays a running gag, a trader whose produce is destroyed in every city the heroes pass through, and he commits to the grief every time. It is a bit part that outlived most leading roles from the same era, and when the show was remade in live action in 2024 they brought him back to do it on camera, which almost never happens to a voice actor.

The rest is a long career of steady animation work: Master Monkey across the Kung Fu Panda television series and specials, Kwan on Danny Phantom, Wind Dragon on Justice League Unlimited, Doctor Chaotica on Star Trek: Lower Decks, and small parts in the Ice Age and How to Train Your Dragon films. His live-action credits from the 1990s tell their own story, since they are largely named for what he looked like rather than who he was playing, from Ling in U.S. Marshals to the man listed as Asian Guy in Ghost World.

He is also a novelist. Still Life Las Vegas, his first book, was published in August 2015.