American television actor
Matt Yang King is an American actor. He appears in the Netflix series Avatar: The Last Airbender as Appa and Momo, in Pixar's Elemental and the Netflix series Not Quite Narwhal, as well as Riverdale , Powers , 24 , Strong Medicine , and Numbers . He created the short films The World of Steam, The Duelist and has provided voiceover work for numerous television shows, video games, and commercials including Love, Death & Robots , Studio Ghibli's 25th Anniversary English dub of Only Yesterday with Daisy Ridley , the World of Warcraft franchise, Cyberpunk 2077 , G.I. Joe: Renegades , Transformers: Robots in Disguise , Fortnite , Supah Ninjas , and Marvel Heroes .
Early and personal life
King studied acting at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and lived in New York until 1998, when he left to tour the United States with the musical Titanic , playing Quartermaster Robert Hichens and Bandsman Bricoux.[1] The tour began in Los Angeles .[2]
Career
Voice acting
King has provided numerous voices for television, film, and video games, from the voice of the Host in "The Witness" and Liang and Renshu in "Good Hunting". His work includes Father and Kozou in Studio Ghibli's Only Yesterday , Illidan Stormrage in the World of Warcraft franchise, The Persuader in Bruce Timm's Justice League vs The Fatal Five , The Atom in Injustice 2 , Eian in Batman Ninja , and the voices of Splinter and Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) . King is the voice of Apple in numerous television ads and also voiced both Liu Kang and Fujin in Mortal Kombat 11 and also voiced Kung Lao in the animated film Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms .[3]
Additionally, King was one of the creators and hosts of the long-running podcast, GeeksOn,[4] with Aaron Hendricks, Donald Marshall, and Peter Gamble Robinson.
Film and television
King has had recurring roles on Riverdale , Numbers , 24 , and Strong Medicine . He starred opposite Danny Huston in the Bernard Rose film The Kreutzer Sonata , which also features King playing the violin.
Stage
King's stage credits include the first Broadway touring production of Titanic : The Musical,[2] East West Players ' Yankee Dawg You Die [5] as Bradley with Sab Shimono and The Tempest [6] as Caliban [7] with fellow NYU Tisch alumnus Daniel Dae Kim , and an NAACP award-winning hip-hop version of The Two Gentlemen of Verona called 2G's at Los Angeles' Sacred Fools Theater .[8]
Writing
Frustrated with playing stereotypically Asian roles in the early-mid 2000s, King began writing to create roles for minority actors "that people felt they could wrap their brains around that were about being ethnic...[and] racism."[9] The Harrowing , his script with Peter Gamble featuring an African-American man as the lead in a horror film is in development.[citation needed ]
Crowdfunding projects
In 2017, King collaborated with cartoonist Ellipsis Stephens and fellow producers Phil LaMarr and Danielle Stephens to bring Stephen's webcomic, Goblins , to life as an animated series. The Goblins Animated campaign on Indiegogo was to produce a five-minute long mega-trailer/pilot that could be used to garner more interest in the project.[10] King himself voices one of the characters, Fumbles. Notable voice actors make up the rest of the cast, including Phil LaMarr as Complains of Names, Billy West as Minmax, Maurice LaMarche as Forgath, Jim Cummings as Thaco, Tara Strong as Saves a Fox, Matthew Mercer as Big Ears, Jennifer Hale as Kin, and Steve Blum as Kore. The mega-trailer is currently under production.
In 2012, King created a Kickstarter project for his steampunk webseries called The World of Steam .[11] Written, directed, and produced by King, the show is set in a Twilight Zone -type steampunk universe and featured Scott Folsom, Gail Folsom, Gina Torres , Mido Hamada , Karl E. Landler , Julian Curtis, Robin Atkin Downes , and King himself as the host, Mr. Liang.[citation needed ] At the time, the series was the highest-grossing webseries ever on Kickstarter.[12] The first episode, The Clockwork Heart , was released as a webisode in 2013 and contains music by composer Bear McCreary . The remainder of the series is still in the works and is being developed for television.[9] [13]
Steampunk work
After the creation of the World of Steam webseries in 2012, King was seen as a leader in the Steampunk creative community.[14] [15] As a result, he was invited to serve as one of the three judges on the first-ever network Steampunk-themed reality show, Game Show Network's Steampunk'd in 2015. King cites his Steampunk influces as H.G. Wells , Jules Verne , H.P. Lovecraft , K.W. Jeter ,[12] Robert Howard , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , and China Mieville ,[16] among others. He collaborated with Scott and Gail Folsom from the League of STEAM on the pilot episode for the World of Steam , "The Clockwork Heart,"[11] and was cited in the 2016 book, Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures , edited by Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall.[17] His Love, Death and Robots episode, "Good Hunting," is Asian-inspired Steampunk.[18] King has appeared at various Steampunk conventions as a presenter and judge, and is currently collaborating with Cheyenne Wright of Girl Genius on a new Steampunk project called The Cabinet of Curiosities .
Convention appearances
Filmography
Live action roles
Television
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2001
Crossing Jordan
Dr. Yeung
Episode: "Blue Christmas"
2001
ER
Rick
Episode: "Four Corners"
2002
MDs
2nd Year Student
Episode: "Time of Death"
2002
The West Wing
Staffer
Episode: "Hartsfield's Landing"
2002
Friends
The Student
Episode: "The One Where Joey Dates Rachel"
2003
Threat Matrix
Broker #2
Episode: "Pilot"
2003
The Even Stevens Movie
Scott
TV movie
2003
Frasier
Thad
Episode: "Daphne Does Dinner"
2003–2006
Strong Medicine
Dr. Matt Linn / First Year / First Year Medical Student
27 episodes
2004
It's All Relative
Matthew
Episode: "Our Sauce, It Is a Beauty"
2005
The New Partridge Family
Benjamin
TV movie
2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Yak #2
Episode: "Snakes"
2005–2010
Numbers
Matt Li / Technician / Crime Scene Tech / Tech / FBI Tech Agent / FBI Computer Tech #1 / FBI Tech Agent #2
14 episodes
2007
CSI: NY
Kim Wey
Episodes: "Child's Play"
2008
Eli Stone
Tommy Woo
2 episodes
2009
Washington Field
SA Mark Chen
TV movie
2009
Bones
Dr. Marcus Scheer
Episode: "The Cinderella in the Cardboard"
2010
Hub Exclusive: G.I. Joe Renegades & Transformers Prime
Himself / Interviewee
TV short
2010
24
Agent King
4 episodes
2011
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service
Min Ho Kwon
Episode: "A Man Walks Into a Bar..."
2012
Criminal Minds
Detective Harrison Chen
Episode: "Magnificent Light"
2013
Monday Mornings
Tsung Mai
Episode: "Communion"
2013–2015
The World of Steam
Mr. Liang, Producer, Writer, Director, co-director, Executive Producer
Webseries creator; Funded through Kickstarter
2015
Steampunk'd
Himself - Judge
8 episodes
2015
Revenge
Agent Lin
Episode: "Bait"
2016
The Last Ship
Zhou
Episode: "Legacy"
2016
Powers
THX
2 episodes
2016
Grimm
Jin Akagi
Episode: "Inugami"
2017
Lucifer
Adrian Yates
Episode: "Welcome Back, Charlotte Richards"
2017
Training Day
Agent Lawrence Park
Episode: "Faultlines"
2017
Rosewood
Jason Hiyashi
Episode: "Radiation & Rough Landings"
2017
Hashtag Awareness: The Webseries
Todd
Episode: The One Where Tim is a Creeper"
2018
Code Black
Pilot Randy Woodman
Episode: "Cabin Pressure"
2018
9-1-1
Actor
Episode: "Next of Kin"
2018–2022
Riverdale
Marty Mantle
7 episodes
2019
Cabinet of Curiosities
Director, writer
Episode: "The Secret Language of Flowers"
Film
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2004
Species III
Specialist Robert Kelley
2005
Call Center
Sam
Short film
2008
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Stunts (motion capture)
2008
The Kreutzer Sonata
Aiden
2010
Acts of Violence
Bob
2011
How to Spot a Narcissist
Narcissist Matt
Short film
2012
Red Dawn
North Korean Soldier
2013
Sid the Science Kid: The Movie
Yang Yang
2016
Loveology
Rev. James
Short film
2016
The Short Sale
The Gun
Short film
2016
Garbage Day
Director, executive producer, Writer
Short film
2020
Sightless
Doctor Katsuro
TBA
Afterthoughts (in production)
Detective Jay Vittidini
Short film
Voice over roles
Film
Television
Video games
Stage
Awards and nominations
Year
Award/Organization
Award/Category
Work
Result
Notes
2007
Words From Here Short Script Competition[31]
1st Place
The Harrowing
Won
With Peter Gamble
Prize no longer awarded
2010
Scriptapalooza International Screenplay Competition[32]
The Harrowing
Runner Up[33]
With Peter Gamble
2011
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Young Screenwriter's Award
The Harrowing
Won
With Peter Gamble
2011
CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment ) Digital Marketing Initiative[34]
CAPE New Writer's Award
The Harrowing
Won
With Peter Gamble
2011
Behind the Voice Actors Awards[35]
BTVA Television Voice Acting Award
Best Vocal Ensemble in a Television Series
G.I. Joe: Renegades (2010)
Nominated
2014
Steampunk Chronicle Readers Choice Awards[36]
Best Steampunk Script
The Duelist
Won
2016
Behind the Voice Actors Awards[37]
BTVA Anime Dub Movie/Special Voice Acting Award
Best Vocal Ensemble in an Anime Feature Film/Special
Only Yesterday
(Omohide poro poro )
Nominated
2017
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
DownTown
Semi-Finalist[38] / Top 50[39]
2018
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
The Life and Death of Edison Chen
Semi-Finalist[38] / Top 25
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^ a b Ehren, Christine (December 10, 1998). "Titanic Tour Announces Cast; d'Arcy James Returns for LA Engagement" . Playbill . Retrieved 2019-02-19 .
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^ "Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match Exclusive: Full Voice Cast and Plot Revealed" . 14 June 2023.
^ @mattyangking (2024-02-16). "So I finally get to announce that I am playing Appa and Momo in Netflix's new live action Avatar: The Last Airbender!" – via Instagram .
^ @domcianciolo (July 15, 2023). ".#MK1's Cast so far! @mattyangking Liu Kang @KariWahlgren Mileena/Kitana @vicchao Kenshi @AlanLeeVO - Shang Tsung @KaijiTang Sub-Zero @dicek2g Scorpion @AndrewSBowen Johnny @VRodriguezIII Raiden @ThatSunil Kung Lao @YuriLowenthal Smoke @NoshirDalal Rain" (Tweet ). Retrieved July 15, 2023 – via Twitter .
^ Cianciolo, Dominic [@domcianciolo] (October 17, 2023). "#MkOnslaught's cine voices so far! Raiden @WillingBlam Liu & Fuj @mattyangking Kung Lao @ThatSunil Jax @WillCMe Johnny @AndrewSBowen Sonya Sheeva @vanmarshall Scorp @RonYuan Shinnok @TroyBakerVA Kitana @KariWahlgren Cetrion @MaryEMcGlynn Baraka @blumspew Kabal J. Cahill" (Tweet ). Retrieved October 20, 2023 – via Twitter .
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