Yuri Chinen is a Japanese singer, actor, and voice actor, best known as a member of the pop group Hey Say JUMP under the talent agency Johnny & Associates. His voice acting work, while limited in comparison to his live-action and musical career, includes a few notable roles in animated films.

Chinen provided the voice for the character Kotaro in the 2007 animated historical film Sword of the Stranger. This film, produced by Studio Bones, remains his most prominent credit as a voice actor for an anime feature. In addition to this role, he has contributed to the Japanese dub of international animated features, voicing Brainy in the Japanese-language version of The Smurfs film released in 2011.

Although Chinen is not primarily a voice actor for television anime series, he has appeared in various live-action and animated media. The user provided the example of Makoto Kurita in Jigoku Sensei Nube, which is a live-action television drama adaptation of the manga, not an anime series. In this 2014 drama, he played a high school student who believes in paranormal phenomena. Similarly, the role of Kenichi Mitsuba in Ninja Hattori Kun The Movie is from a live-action film released in 2004, based on the Ninja Hattori-kun franchise, where he played a human character rather than providing an animated voice.

His career spans from his debut in 2003, leading to his consistent work as a television actor, with recurring roles in dramas such as Sprout, Scrap Teacher Kyoshi Saisei, and various films including Shinobi no Kuni. Although his contributions to anime voice acting are specifically represented by Sword of the Stranger and the dub of The Smurfs, he remains a prominent figure in Japanese entertainment through his music and live-action performances.