Matthew Mercer
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 Japanese anime.
Matthew Mercer
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]
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.[39] 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.[40] They live in Los Angeles and have a pet corgi named Omar.[41]
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.[42] He explained that he tries his best in storytelling to also represent the experiences of close LGBT family and friends.[42] As an activist, he works with various LGBT rights charities like OutRight Action International.[43] In 2018, he revealed that he suffers from body dysmorphic disorder and has always struggled with his physical appearance.[5]
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