1. SungWon Cho, known as ProZD, is an American YouTuber and actor.
16 Facts About SungWon Cho
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On his YouTube channel, Cho produces short comedy skits, unboxing videos, and reviews of board games and snack foods.
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SungWon Cho is known for his many voice acting roles, including FL4K from Borderlands 3, Holst Sigiswald Goneril from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, and Ratatoskr from God of War Ragnarok.
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SungWon Cho was born to South Korean parents in Minnesota on December 9,1990, and later moved to DeWitt, Michigan.
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SungWon Cho started voice acting in high school when he voiced different characters on a friend's radio plays.
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SungWon Cho attended Michigan State University, where he frequently acted in live performances and graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Media Information and Technology.
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In October 2012, SungWon Cho began daily posting voice content to Tumblr, building an audience and eventually going viral with a video of him singing "Let It Go" from Frozen while approximating the voice of Goofy.
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SungWon Cho remained active on Vine until the 2016 announcement of their shutdown and was a finalist for the 9th Shorty Awards for Vine of the Year.
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SungWon Cho shifted his focus to his YouTube channel, his audience following from Vine and having his work often appear on the frontpage of Reddit.
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In 2017 SungWon Cho starred in his first live action role as the main character, Detective Joe Furuya, in Crunchyroll's Anime Crimes Division, for which he was nominated for Best Acting in a Comedy for the 8th Streamy Awards.
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SungWon Cho's videos are intentionally low-budget and often feature recurring universes with their own casts of characters, including an anime parody and a role-playing game parody, through which he pokes fun at common gaming and anime cliches and tropes.
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SungWon Cho continued to expand these existing storylines that had originally started on Vine, as well as creating a Let's Play channel Press Buttons n Talk with his friend Alex Mankin.
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In 2019, SungWon Cho voiced the character FL4K in the video game Borderlands 3.
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SungWon Cho is a frequent guest at conventions and presenting for the Crunchyroll Anime Awards.
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In 2023, SungWon Cho made his live-action Hollywood debut, playing a supporting role in BlackBerry.
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In October 2015, SungWon Cho became engaged to Anne Marie Salter, a professional illustrator he met through an online Super Mario fan fiction community.