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Charlet Chung

American actress and voice actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ29052062
Source-derived summary

Chihye "Charlet" Takahashi Chung (born February 16, 1983) is an American actress who is best known for her works in voice acting, as well as for her various roles throughout film and television. She voices the fictional character D.Va in the multiplayer-shooter video game Overwatch and has reprised the role for the crossover game Heroes of the Storm. She also voiced Seraph in the shooter video game Call of Duty: Black Ops III. In television, Chung has made appearances on shows such as Cold Case, Cory in the House, 90210, Shake It Up and Grace and Frankie. In 2019, she joined the main cast of two Netflix animated series; on Carmen Sandiego as Julia Argent and on Fast & Furious Spy Racers as Margaret "Echo" Pearl.

Early life

Chung was born as Chihye Takahashi Chung in Long Beach California, to a Japanese mother and a Korean father and is fluent and literate in three languages: English, Japanese, and Korean.

Chung graduated from Diamond Bar High School in 2001.

Career

Her interest in acting began from a young age. She was discovered and signed on by an agent while on an airplane at the age of five. She landed her first acting role on CBS's Cold Case within three months after graduating with a Bachelor in Communications from the University of California, San Diego.

In 2016, Chung made an appearance on the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie where she starred as the character Charlotte.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Charlet Chung” is american actress and voice actress. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Charlet, Chung and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2019, 2001, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983-02-16. For this dossier, Charlet, Chung and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american actress and voice actress” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q29052062. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983, 2019, 2001 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Charlet Chung” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.