Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2844
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Matthew Yang King works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Matthew Yang King appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Matthew. Hoppers is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, comedy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Daniel Chong, Jon M. Chu, Peter Sohn and others, Matthew Yang King helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Hoppers (2026) as Additional Voices (voice) · Elemental (2023) as Alan / Lutz / Earth Pruner (voice) · Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021) as Kung Lao (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2844 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2012–2026
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Hoppers
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Hoppers
Most frequent director
Ethan Spaulding
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Ethan Spaulding
Most common genre
Animation
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.5
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Hoppers, Wicked: For Good, In Your Dreams — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Justice League vs. the Fatal Five, Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, Red Dawn.
Most productive era
2020s
11 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.81 film |
| Action | 6.53 films | 7.14 films |
| Thriller | 5.71 film | 6.42 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.63 films |
| Romance | — | 7.12 films |
| Horror | — | 6.42 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012Red Dawn
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Korean Soldier.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Hoppers
8.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Additional Voices (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
14 of 14 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Daniel Chong
as Alan / Lutz / Earth Pruner (voice)
Directed by Peter Sohn
as Kung Lao (voice)
Directed by Ethan Spaulding
as Luka / Skogar (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Commander (voice)
Directed by Unknown
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Additional Voices (voice)
Hoppers (2026)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Matthew Yang King a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Alan / Lutz / Earth Pruner (voice)
Elemental (2023)
Performance score7.4
Elemental asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alan / Lutz / Earth Pruner (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kung Lao (voice)
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021)
Performance score7.4
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kung Lao (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Luka / Skogar (voice)
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)
Performance score7.2
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Luka / Skogar (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. Hoppers is the clearest statement of what Matthew Yang King does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Matthew at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Mulan: Princess Warrior (2020)
Keeps the adventure register of Hoppers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021)
Keeps the action register of Mulan: Princess Warrior but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)
Keeps the action register of Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms but asks for a colder reading of it.
Elemental (2023)
Keeps the animation register of The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ethan Spaulding
Director
3 films together
Notably Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms
Dan Bradley
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Dawn
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League vs. the Fatal Five
Peter Sohn
Director
1 film together
Notably Elemental
Jon M. Chu
Director
1 film together
Notably Wicked: For Good
Daniel Chong
Director
1 film together
Notably Hoppers
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ethan Spaulding
Director
3 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the RealmsDaniel Chong
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HoppersPeter Sohn
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ElementalSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League vs. the Fatal FiveJon M. Chu
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wicked: For GoodDan Bradley
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red DawnSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Hoppers
as Additional Voices (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Elemental
as Alan / Lutz / Earth Pruner (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Hoppers
as Additional Voices (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Wicked: For Good
as Animal Captain
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hoppers
as Additional Voices (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Matthew Yang King has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Animation Legend
Awarded
10 catalogue titles in animation, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Hoppers
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms
as Kung Lao (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Wicked: For Good
as Animal Captain
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Significant Other
as Ray
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms
as Kung Lao (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
as Dr. Shin (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Elemental
as Alan / Lutz / Earth Pruner (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Justice League vs. the Fatal Five
as The Persuader / Arkham Director (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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