Matthew Mercer
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Matthew Christopher Miller, better known as Matthew Mercer, is an American voice actor and game designer. He has provided voice work for cartoons, animations, video games, and English dubs of anime.
In anime, Mercer voices Levi Ackerman in Attack on Titan, Kiritsugu Emiya in Fate/Zero, Jotaro Kujo in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Tony Stark / Iron Man in Iron Man: Rise of Technovore and Avengers Confidential: Black Widow and Punisher, Aikurō Mikisugi in Kill la Kill, Kanji Tatsumi during the second half of Persona 4: The Animation, the second voice of Yamato in Naruto, Trafalgar Law in the Funimation dub of One Piece, Hit in Dragon Ball Super, Seijirou Kikuoka in Sword Art Online, Falco in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and Leorio in Hunter x Hunter.
In video games, Mercer has voiced Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil 6, Ganondorf in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Kurtis Stryker in Mortal Kombat 9, Chrom and Ryoma in Fire Emblem, Jack Cooper in Titanfall 2, Espio the Chameleon in Sonic the Hedgehog, Deadshot in Injustice 2, Cole Cassidy (formerly Jesse McCree) in Overwatch, Yusuke Kitagawa in Persona 5, MacCready in Fallout 4, Midas and Syd in Fortnite: Battle Royale and Fortnite: Save the World respectively, Edér Teylecg and Aloth Corfiser in Pillars of Eternity, Gangplank and Kindred's Wolf in League of Legends, Walter in Shin Megami Tensei IV, Ira in Kingdom Hearts, Goro Majima in Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and Vecna in Dead by Daylight.
In addition to his voice acting work, Mercer has developed and served as the Dungeon Master for the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role since it premiered in 2015.[4] He is also a game designer[1][2] and the chief creative officer of Critical Role Productions.[3]
Early life
[edit]Matthew Christopher Miller was born in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He is primarily of Scottish descent.[5] His family moved to Los Angeles when he was eight years old.[5] He attended Agoura High School in Agoura Hills, California.[6] He has a brother who is a musician under the stage name Dave Heatwave. He spoke with a stutter when he was young, leading his father (who also stuttered) to recruit a speech therapist who managed to reduce the effects to the point that only certain words trigger it.[5] He adopted "Mercer" (which members of his family had used in the past) as his stage surname because his birth name was too similar to someone already represented by SAG-AFTRA.[5] He had a stint as a member of The Groundlings.[6]
Career
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Mercer's family advised him against moving into theatre as a career, and so he initially considered working in animation. He was dissuaded by advice from professional animators about the working conditions in that field however, and joined the games industry instead. In his early career he worked as a QA tester and later associate producer on a number of Edutainment titles developed by Sound Source Interactive and TDK Mediactive. After "friends of his father got him some odd jobs in voiceover", Mercer decided to pursue the profession, and resigned from his game development job.[7][8]
Mercer began his voice acting career performing English walla and additional characters in several Japanese anime, and has since also worked in cartoons, video games, and radio commercials. He has been a guest at conventions around the world, hosting at events such as Anime Expo and Anime Matsuri. His work has expanded to a multitude of roles in cartoons, video games and radio commercials. He directed and produced the web series There Will Be Brawl,[9] based on the Super Smash Bros. video game series, where he provided the voices for both Meta Knight and Kirby, and portrayed the role of Ganondorf. He also acted in several shows from the Geek & Sundry and Nerdist networks and produced the web series Fear News with the Last Girl for FEARnet which was a 2010 Webby Awards Honoree for the Experimental & Weird category.[10]
In 2016, Mercer served as the Dungeon Master for Force Grey: Giant Hunters, which ran for 2 seasons.[11] In 2017, he was the Dungeon Master for the Nerdist show CelebriD&D, which puts D&D-playing celebrities into a small, mini-campaign where they are paired with role-players.[12] He has also been a player in other actual play web series such as Dimension 20 and L.A. by Night.[13][14]
Critical Role
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Mercer is the Dungeon Master of the web series Critical Role,[4] which launched on Geek & Sundry in 2015, where he leads several other voice actors through a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.[15][16] Critical Role was both the Webby Winner and the People's Voice Winner in the "Games (Video Series & Channels)" category at the 2019 Webby Awards;[3] the show was also both a Finalist and the Audience Honor Winner in the "Games" category at the 2019 Shorty Awards.[17] Luke Winkie, in a human-interest story for Slate, called Mercer "an expert improviser" and "a maestro with the dice in his hands, weaving interlocking plot lines and complex thematic threads out of thin air" with "the innate ability to make a Dungeons & Dragons campaign feel like a tightly wound limited drama".[18] Winkie commented that "it can be downright intimidating to watch Mercer when he's at the peak of his powers. As a career voice actor, he possesses all of the subtle performance intangibles that saturate his storytelling with life: the timing, the verve, the language flourishes".[18]
After becoming hugely successful, the Critical Role cast left the Geek & Sundry network in early 2019 and set up their own production company, Critical Role Productions;[19][20][21][22] Mercer is the company's chief creative officer.[3] Soon after, they aimed to raise $750,000 on Kickstarter to create an animated series of their first campaign, but ended up raising over $11 million.[23] In November 2019, Amazon Prime Video announced that they had acquired the streaming rights to this animated series, now titled The Legend of Vox Machina;[24][25] Mercer reprised his role as Sylas Briarwood and other characters.[26][27]
In October 2020, Mercer became the creative advisor for the Critical Role board and card game imprint called Darrington Press.[28] From June to August 2021, Mercer appeared on Exandria Unlimited, a spinoff of Critical Role, as a player.[29][30][31] In March 2022, he reprised his role in the two part special Exandria Unlimited: Kymal.[32][33]
Game design
[edit]Mercer's work as Dungeon Master has led to the development of three campaign setting books being published about his world of Exandria. The first is the Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting (2017) published through Green Ronin Publishing.[1] The second is the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (2020) published through Wizards of the Coast, thus making Exandria an official Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting.[2][34] The third is Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn (2022), a revised and expanded edition of the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting, which was published by Darrington Press, the publishing label created by Critical Role Productions.[35] Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn was nominated for the 2022 ENNIE Awards in the "Best Setting" category.[36]
On March 15, 2022, a new adventure module titled Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep (2022), with Mercer, James Haeck and Chris Perkins as lead designers, was released. It is the second collaboration book between Wizards of the Coast and Critical Role Productions.[37][38] Mercer was then a consultant on the upcoming Dungeon Master's Guide (2024) for the revised 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons.[39]
Personal life
[edit]Mercer began dating voice actress and Critical Role co-star Marisha Ray in 2011, and they were engaged in 2016 before marrying on October 21, 2017.[40] The video of his proposal became popular among fans as it involved an entire escape room game he secretly created with the Critical Role cast as a surprise for Ray.[41] They live in Los Angeles and have a pet corgi named Omar.[42]
Mercer said in 2017 that, while he is heterosexual, he has also been attracted to men in the past and experienced homophobia while growing up as a boy who liked to experiment with an androgynous appearance.[43] He explained that he tries his best in storytelling to also represent the experiences of close LGBT family and friends.[43] As an activist, he works with various LGBT rights charities like OutRight Action International.[44] In 2018, he revealed that he suffers from body dysmorphic disorder and has always struggled with his physical appearance.[5]
Filmography
[edit]Voice acting
[edit]Anime
[edit]Animation
[edit]† | Denotes series that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
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2011–12 | ThunderCats | Tygra | [46] | |
2013 | Beware the Batman | Ice Pick Joe | [46] | |
2015 | DC Super Friends | Superman, Two-Face | [46] | |
Wabbit | Bigfoot | [75] | ||
2016–17 | Regular Show | Chance Sureshot, Recap Robot, others | [46] | |
2017–19 | Avengers Assemble | Hercules, Tiger Shark, others | [46] | |
2017 | Marvel's Spider-Man | Aleksei Sytsevich / Rhino, others | [46] | |
Zak Storm | Golden Bones | Tweet[76] | ||
Freedom Fighters: The Ray | Black Arrow, Doll Man, Oliver Queen / Green Arrow | Web series | [77][78] | |
2018 | Voltron: Legendary Defender | Lieutenant Hepta | Tweet[79] | |
2020 | Robot Chicken | Ant-Man, Aquaman | [46] | |
Blood of Zeus | Hermes | Tweet[80] | ||
2022–present | The Legend of Vox Machina | Trinket, Sylas Briarwood, Orthax, Umbrasyl, others | Executive Producer | [26][27] |
2022 | Dragon Age: Absolution | Fairbanks | [81] | |
2024 | Lego Monkie Kid | Nine-Headed Demon | Tweet[82] | |
TBA | Mighty Nein † | TBA | In production | [83] |
Films
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
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2012 | Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos | Melvin Voyager | Limited theatrical release for English dub | [46] |
Resident Evil: Damnation | Leon S. Kennedy | [46][84] | ||
2017 | Resident Evil: Vendetta | Leon S. Kennedy | Limited theatrical release | [85][86][87] |
Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale | Seijirō Kikuoka | [88] | ||
2019 | Promare | Gueira | Limited theatrical release | [89] |
One Piece: Stampede | Trafalgar Law | [90] | ||
2022 | One Piece Film: Red | [91] | ||
2023 | Resident Evil: Death Island | Leon S. Kennedy | Limited theatrical release | [92][93] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | Iron Man: Rise of Technovore | Tony Stark (Iron Man) | [46] | |
Leo the Lion | Maximus Elephante | [46] | ||
2014 | Justice League: War | Guard | [46] | |
Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison | Mui | [94] | ||
Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher | Iron Man (Tony Stark) | [46] | ||
One Piece Film: Z | Bins | [46] | ||
2015 | Tiger & Bunny: The Rising | Richard Max | [95] | |
Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts | Mech Guard 1, Wealthy Jock | [46] | ||
Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Frost Fight! | Captain America, Gingerbread Men | [46] | ||
2016 | Batman: Bad Blood | Hellhound, Chuckie Sol | [46] | |
2017 | K: Missing Kings | Kuroh Yatogami | [96] | |
2021 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train | Kagaya Ubuyashiki | [46] | |
Justice Society: World War II | Hourman | [97] | ||
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms | Stryker, Smoke | [98] | ||
2023 | Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match | Ethan, Bully | [99] |
Video games
[edit]Other media
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | There Will Be Brawl | Ganondorf, Kirby, Meta Knight | Also director and co-creator Hosted on The Escapist website | [145] |
Live-action
[edit]Films
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Mythica: The Darkspore | Szorlok | Premiered on CONtv | [146][147] |
Mythica: The Necromancer | Premiered on CONtv | [148] | ||
2016 | Mythica: The Iron Crown | Funded through Kickstarter | [149][150] | |
Mythica: The Godslayer | [151][152] |
Web series
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015–present | Critical Role | Dungeon Master | Also Creator and Producer; 3 campaigns + specials | [15] |
2015–18 | CelebriD&D | Celebrity guest D&D show presented by Nerdist | [153][154] | |
2016–17 | Force Grey | Wizards of the Coast D&D show presented by Nerdist and Geek & Sundry | [11][155] | |
2019 | UnDeadwood | Clayton "The Coffin" Sharpe | Main role. Limited series using the Deadlands RPG system presented by Critical Role Productions | [156][157] |
2019–present | Dimension 20 | Kraz-Thun / Leiland "Unlucky Jack" Brakkow Dungeon Master | Escape from the Bloodkeep campaign Pirates of Leviathan campaign The Ravening War campaign | [158][13] [159][160] [161] |
2020 | Vancouver by Night | Cuthbert Beckett | Guest role; season 1, episode 13. Web series using the Vampire: The Masquerade RPG system. | [14][162] |
2021–22 | Exandria Unlimited | Dariax Zaveon | Main role; also Kymal special in 2022 | [29][30][31][32][33] |
2021 | L.A. by Night | Cuthbert Beckett | Episode: "Reign in Hell" | [14][163] |
2023 | Candela Obscura | Game Master | 3 episodes; actual play web series using the Illuminated Worlds system. | [164][165] |
Bibliography
[edit]Role-playing games
[edit]- Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting (writer, Green Ronin Publishing, 2017)[1]
- Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (writer, Wizards of the Coast, 2020)[34]
- Doom Eternal Assault on Armaros Station (writer, Critical Role Productions, 2020)[166]
- Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn (writer, Darrington Press, 2022)[167]
- Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep (writer, Wizards of the Coast, 2022)[37]
Notes
[edit]- ^ The first three episodes of the English dub for Stardust Crusaders were limited streamed in July 2014 for Anime Expo
References
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* Mercer, Matthew [@matthewmercer] (November 21, 2017). "Went to check on Netflix... whoa, Zak Storm is on there?! This ridiculous cartoon was a good time to work on, but never saw it finished until now. Looks much slicker than I expected! Silly, fun... kids would dig it" (Tweet). Retrieved July 18, 2018 – via Twitter.
* @timbaldridge (November 21, 2017). "Who did you voice on the show? My kids have been watching it non-stop on Netflix for about a week now" (Tweet). Retrieved July 18, 2018 – via Twitter.
* Mercer, Matthew [@matthewmercer] (November 21, 2017). "Golden Bones! :)" (Tweet). Retrieved July 18, 2018 – via Twitter. - ^ Sava, Oliver (December 8, 2017). "The Ray gives The CW's new gay hero an animated showcase, but not enough spotlight". The A.V. Club. TV Reviews. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
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- ^ @matthewmercer (August 10, 2018). "Well now... The wait is over! All new episodes of @Voltron Legendary Defender are now on @Netflix! Who's THIS handsome cameo...?" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Mercer, Matthew [@matthewmercer] (October 6, 2020). "Looks like the #BloodOfZeus trailer dropped! I voice this speedy Hermes fella in this series! Can't wait to see it on 10/27. @netflix Click here for the trailer: https://t.co/aAs2CCNi1e https://t.co/uKzGZ1Svv8" (Tweet). Archived from the original on December 23, 2021. Retrieved February 21, 2022 – via Twitter.
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Arkham Knight features additional voice talent from Breaking Bad's Jonathan Banks as Commissioner Gordon, Kevin Conroy as Batman, Matthew Mercer as Robin, and a slew of others.
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I played on both tracks for a substantial amount of time, and there were some very good performances all around—particularly both Matt Mercer and Daisuke Ono's takes on Sigma
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External links
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- Matthew Mercer on X
- Matthew Mercer convention appearances on AnimeCons.com
- Matthew Mercer at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Matthew Mercer at IMDb