Mick Wingert
Mick Wingert is an actor, born 1974.
Somebody has to be Po when Jack Black is busy, and for most of the last fifteen years that somebody has been Mick Wingert. He took over Po and Zeng for Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, played Po again in The Paws of Destiny, and has voiced Iron Man across most of Marvel's television animation: Marvel's Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, What If...?, Marvel Rising, a stack of Lego specials, and more recently Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
This is a real craft and it collects almost no credit. Matching a film star closely enough that a child does not notice the swap, while still giving a reading of your own so the show does not sound like an impression, is harder than originating the part, and Wingert does it in two entirely different voices for two studios at once. He also teaches it, working as a voice-over coach.
There is a decent joke buried in his film credits. When the Kung Fu Panda features come round and Black returns, Wingert is still on the call sheet, as Farmer Goose in the third film and an old bunny in the fourth. His most visible role now is probably none of the above: Heimerdinger in Arcane, a tiny, fussy, extremely old scientist, is the one part on this list where he is not matching a movie star, and it is the most character work anyone has handed him.
Movies (17)
- Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)
- David (2025)
- The Princess and the Frog (2009)
- Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
- Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy (2014)
- The King of Kings (2025)
- Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
- Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (2017)
- Kung Fu Panda Holiday (2010)
- LEGO Marvel Avengers: Code Red (2023)
- Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2016)
- Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Frost Fight! (2015)
- Marvel Rising: Heart of Iron (2019)
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Avengers Reassembled! (2015)
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Black Panther - Trouble in Wakanda (2018)
- Curious George: Royal Monkey (2019)
- Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness - Good Croc, Bad Croc (2013)
TV (13)
- Arcane (2021)
- What If...? (2021)
- Sofia the First (2013)
- Marvel's Avengers (2013)
- Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (2011)
- Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight (2022)
- Batwheels (2022)
- Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (2015)
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2025)
- T.U.F.F. Puppy (2010)
- The Cuphead Show! (2022)
- Breadwinners (2014)
- Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny (2018)
Where to start with Mick Wingert
Arcane first, and not only because it is the best thing here. Heimerdinger gives Wingert an accent, an age and a set of manners to build rather than a target to hit, and the difference in the performance is audible.
Then Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, where the Po handover happens, and listen to how much of Jack Black he keeps and how much he quietly drops. What If...? is the best of the Iron Man work, because an anthology keeps dropping the same voice into different situations, and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is the newest of it. The Cuphead Show! is the wildcard, a 1930s cartoon pastiche that lets him be loud. For the features, Kung Fu Panda 3 and Kung Fu Panda 4 are a curiosity: he is in both, playing villagers, while somebody else voices the character he has carried for years.