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Matthew Wood | |
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Born | Matthew Russell Wood August 15, 1972 Walnut Creek, California, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Sound engineer, voice actor |
Years active | 1990–present |
Matthew Russell Wood (born August 15, 1972) is an American sound editor and voice actor. He is a supervising sound editor at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California. He also provides the voice of General Grievous in the Star Wars franchise.
Starting at Lucasfilm as a game tester at LucasArts, [1] Wood then moved to the company's sound department and worked on all three films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy as supervising sound editor and also did an uncredited acting role in The Phantom Menace as Bib Fortuna and the voice of Ody Mandrell. In Attack of the Clones , he played Seboca and Magaloof. In Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith , in addition to a brief appearance as Orn Free Taa, Wood plays the voice role of General Grievous, a role originated by voice actors John DiMaggio and Richard McGonagle in the series Star Wars: Clone Wars . In the film, he dubbed the voice of stuntman Kyle Rowling, who played General Grievous utilizing motion capture.
He would later come back to work with the Star Wars expanded universe. He reprised his voice role of General Grievous in General Grievous Halloween audiocast as well as all video game appearances of Grievous with the exception of Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron where Grievous was played by David W. Collins. He reprised his role as General Grievous and the battle droids in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and associated television series. In the series, he once again voiced Grievous as well as Wat Tambor, [2] HELIOS-3D, [3] senate guards, [3] the battle droids [3] and Poggle the Lesser. [4] He provided the voice of RO-GR/Roger, a reprogrammed battle droid in Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures . He also voiced Bib Fortuna in Star Wars: The Bad Batch . [5]
He has received five Academy Award nominations for Sound Editing: for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood at the 80th Academy Awards, for the Pixar sci-fi film WALL-E at the 81st Academy Awards, for Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the 88th Academy Awards, for Star Wars: The Last Jedi at the 90th Academy Awards, and for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Wood made an appearance in Adult Swim's Robot Chicken in 2008.
Year | Title | Notes |
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1996 | The Rock | Assistant sound designer |
1998 | Armageddon | |
2000 | Titan A.E. | Supervising sound editor |
2005 | Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | |
2007 | There Will Be Blood [1] | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Sound Editing |
2008 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | |
2008 | WALL-E [1] | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Sound Editing |
2009 | Star Trek [1] | |
2011 | Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope | Remastered sound for Blu-ray release [1] |
2011 | Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back | |
2011 | Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi | |
2011 | Super 8 [1] | |
2012 | The Master [1] | |
2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Sound Editing |
2016 | Rogue One [1] | |
2017 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Sound Editing |
2018 | Solo: A Star Wars Story | |
2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Sound Editing |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1999 | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | Bib Fortuna, Ody Mandrell | Uncredited |
2002 | Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | Magaloof, Seboca | |
2005 | Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | General Grievous | |
2008 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Battle Droids | |
2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | Additional Voices | |
2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Ello Asty, Quiggold, Niima Thug, Stormtroopers | Uncredited |
2017 | Smurfs: The Lost Village | Additional Voices | |
2017 | The Emoji Movie | ||
2017 | Olaf's Frozen Adventure | Short film | |
2018 | Next Gen | Netflix film | |
2019 | Knives Out | ||
2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | C'ai Threnalli | |
2021 | Seal Team | Shark, Seal | Netflix film |
2023 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Quantumnauts (voice) |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2008 | Robot Chicken | Fygar, Pooka, Guy | Episode: "President Evil" |
2008–20 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | General Grievous, Wat Tambor, Poggle the Lesser, Battle Droids, others | 69 episodes |
2014–18 | Star Wars Rebels | B1-268, Klik-Klak, Stormtrooper, Battle Droids | 13 episodes |
2016–17 | Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures | Roger, IG-86, Additional Voices | 31 episodes |
2018 | Star Wars Forces of Destiny | IG-88 | Episode: "Triplecross" |
2018–20 | Star Wars Resistance | Ello Asty, Kylo Ren, Additional Voices | 6 episodes |
2020 | The Mandalorian | Bib Fortuna | Episode: "Chapter 16: The Rescue" |
2021 | Star Wars: The Bad Batch | Bib Fortuna, Battle Droids | 3 episodes |
2021 | What If...? | Additional Voices | 8 episodes |
2021, 2023 | Star Wars: Visions | Battle Droids, Stormtroopers | Episodes: "The Village Bride" (English dub) and "The Pit" |
2022 | The Book of Boba Fett | Bib Fortuna | Episode: "Chapter 4: The Gathering Storm" |
2022 | Willow | Additional Voices | Recurring role |
2024 | Star Wars: Tales of the Empire | General Grievous | Episode: "The Path of Fear" [6] [7] |
Year | Title | Role |
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2005 | Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | General Grievous |
Star Wars: Battlefront II | ||
2008 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels | Battle Droids |
2009 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes | |
Brütal Legend | Fire Barons | |
2010 | Clone Wars Adventures | General Grievous, Wat Tambor, Poggle the Lesser, Battle Droids, Additional Voices |
2011 | Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars | General Grievous, Battle Droids |
2012 | Kinect Star Wars | General Grievous, Red 13, B1 Droid, B1 Trando, B2 Droid |
2015 | Disney Infinity 3.0 | General Grievous, Battle Droids |
2016 | Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens | General Grievous, Ello Asty, Quiggold |
2017 | Star Wars Battlefront II | General Grievous, Kylo Ren (Masked), Battle Droids |
2020 | Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge | Mubo |
2022 | Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga | General Grievous, Kylo Ren, Battle Droids |
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