James C. Mathis III (born November 28, 1974) is an American voice, film and television actor best known for voicing

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in various media.

Career

Mathis was born in

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

, New York City. After nine years since he starred in his first feature film ''Breakin' the Rules'' Mathis went on to make many guest appearances in television shows like '' ER'', ''

Guys Like Us ''Guys Like Us'' is an American sitcom created by Dan Schneider for the UPN channel. It was Schneider's first creator credit. The series aired from October 5, 1998 to January 18, 1999, and it starred Bumper Robinson, Maestro Harrell, and Chris H ...

'', '' Pacific Blue'' and '' City of Angels''. His first main role was the character Bruce in the

VH1 VH1 (originally an initialism of Video Hits One) is an American basic cable television network based in New York City and owned by Paramount Global. It was created by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Commun ...

show '' I Hate My 30's''. Mathis started voice over providing the English voice of

Sigint Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is intelligence-gathering by interception of ''signals'', whether communications between people (communications intelligence—abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication ( ...

in the English version of the video game '' Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater'' which is also one of his most notable roles. He voiced X and the Beast in ''

Shadows of the Damned is an action-adventure video game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game follows the story of Garcia Hotspur, a Mexican demon hunter who goes to the City of the Damned t ...

''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

External links

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at VoiceChasers.com * Living people African-American male actors American male film actors American male television actors American male video game actors American male voice actors 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors 20th-century African-American people 21st-century African-American people People from Brooklyn 1974 births {{US-voice-actor-1970s-stub