Tom Choi


Tom T. Choi is a South Korean-American actor best known for Teen Wolf and his voice work on the Mortal Kombat video games and the Netflix series Squid Game as the masked voice of Hwang In-ho / The Front Man. He has acted in numerous movies and television programs. Choi is also a producer, director, and writer. He wrote the screenplay and starred in the award-winning short film Lone Hunter.

Early life

Choi was born in Daegu, South Korea and moved to Des Moines, Iowa when he was four years old. After graduating high school, Choi moved to Seattle, Washington, where he graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in drama. He then moved to Los Angeles and continued acting in film, television, and commercials. He attended the LACC School of Cinema and Television and now produces, directs, and writes in addition to acting.

Career

Choi began working in film and television in 1998. He has made appearances in multiple blockbuster films and network television shows, and is best known for his roles as Ken Yukimura in Teen Wolf, Liu Kang in the Mortal Kombat series, and the masked voice of Hwang In-ho / The Front Man in Squid Game.
He runs the independent production company Tension Films and was elected in 2015 and 2017 as a board member for the Los Angeles local of SAG-AFTRA, the union's largest local.

As a filmmaker and writer

He made a short film called Singularity in 2016.
Choi has claimed there are not many film and television roles for Asian Americans. Tom Choi wrote the screenplay for Lone Hunter, and then starred in the short film.
Choi also has a web site called Tension Films to feature his work as a filmmaker and writer.

Personal life

He married Jill Renninger and has a son.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Awards

In 2015, Choi was nominated for Best Actor at the Maverick Movie Awards for the short film Lone Hunter. In 2017, he was nominated for Best Actor and won the Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the Milledgeville Film Festival for Lone Hunter, shared with John Heinsen and Pascal Leister.
In 2016, he received an Honorable Mention at Justin Lin's Interpretations Short Films Initiative in the NBCUniversal Short Film Festival for Singularity. Choi both directed the film and played the leading role.