“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
-GK Chesterton
Chuck Huber is a devoted catholic actor, filmmaker, author, and educator whose faith has profoundly shaped his life and creative work. Born in Chicago as the youngest of four brothers and with a younger sister, Chuck grew up in regular catholic alcoholic family that ended in divorce, annulment and remarriage. He graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in Theater from DePaul University in 1993 and began a rich career spanning stage, screen, and voice acting.
He’s best known for voicing iconic characters in Japanese anime, including Android 17 and Emperor Pilaf among half a dozen others in the Dragon Ball franchise, Hiei in Yu Yu Hakusho, Shou Tucker in Fullmetal Alchemist, Dr. Franken Stein in Soul Eater, and Kurogiri in My Hero Academia among hundreds of other roles in anime and video games. Onstage, he has performed with acclaimed companies like Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, Dallas Theater Center, and Trinity Shakespeare.
As a film maker, in 2004 Chuck wrote, produced and starred in La Fragilidad de los Segundos, a bilingual border drama about human trafficking; in 2010 wrote and directed Arbor Day the Musical, a comedy about September 11th; and in 2016 produced and edited a film version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
Beyond entertainment, Chuck has dedicated much of his life to Catholic education and outreach. He toured internationally with Leonardo Defilippis’ The Passion According to St. Luke, served seven years as principal of St. Bernadette Academy, and a past Board President of the Divine Face Organization supporting Our Mother of Special Graces School in Nigeria. His educational ministry includes touring Catholic schools with his performance of The Three Tree, a book written with his wife, Jessica, teaching people how to memorize the Ten Commandments.
Jessica, a resident artist at the Pop Gallery in Downtown Disney, runs Sanctified Souls, a daily saints art ministry. Their Saints book, A is for Agnes, is a top ten book on Amazon. Chuck’s own faith journey is in mercy and transformation. After his first attempted marriage, a blended family of six children, ended in divorce, he stepped away from the Church. An eight year annulment process (granted, and currently under appeal to the Roman Rota) became a path of spiritual healing. Now in his tenth year of marriage to Jessica and joyfully awaiting catholic convalidation, they are raising their one-year-old daughter together in an extended family of seven other siblings with the first grandchild joining them in February.