Chris Sutherland is an english video game programmer and voice actor of Rare. He initially joined Rare in 1989 and worked on many games, most notably on the Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooieseries as the main programmer. He left the company in 2014 and became one of the founding members of Playtonic Games.
Sutherland is known to have voiced many characters at Rare, like Banjo and Kazooie, Daniel Carrington and the announcer of Killer Instinct.
Kevin Bayliss was unoffically credited to be Diddy Kong's first voice actor at some point, but after a few years, Chris Sutherland was offically credited to be the true former voice actor of Diddy Kong before Katsumi Suzuki took over the role.
In Star Fox Adventures, Chris voiced as one of the SnowHorns on Dinosaur Planet