Matthew Yang King

Matthew Yang King (born May 6, 1974) is an American actor, voice actor, director, producer, and writer.

His SpongeBob SquarePants role was Perch Perkins in the video game Nicktoons MLB.

Biography

King was born in New York, New York. At age five he began to play the violin, a skill that would lead to later roles on both stage and screen. At the age of eight, he began studying Aikido, which fostered a lifelong love of martial arts. He moved to Stamford, Connecticut at age one and later moved to Hartford where he attended Hall High School, but returned to his home town of New York after graduating high school.

King studied Acting at New York University's 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. The tour began in Los Angeles, where King moved after leaving the tour in 2000.

He is most known for recurring roles on Riverdale, Powers, 24, Strong Medicine, and Numb3rs. He created the webseries World of Steam and has provided voiceover work for numerous television shows, video games, and commercials including Netflix's new Emmy award-winning Love, Death, and Robots, Studio Ghibli's 25th Anniversary English edition of Only Yesterday with Daisy Ridley, the World of Warcraft franchise, G.I. Joe: Renegades, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Fortnite, Supah Ninjas, and Marvel Heroes. He is currently playing a role in an in production film titled Afterthoughts. He also voices Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat 11 and Mortal Kombat 1