In 2017, King collaborated with cartoonist Tarol Hunt and fellow producers Phil LaMarr and Danielle Stephens to bring Hunt's webcomic, Goblins, to life as an animated series. racism." The Harrowing, his script with Peter Gamble featuring an African-American man as the lead in a horror film, won numerous awards and is still in development. Writing įrustrated with playing stereotypically Asian roles in the early-mid 2000s, King began writing to create roles for minority actors "that people felt they could wrap their brains around that were about being ethnic. King's stage credits include the first Broadway touring production of Titanic: The Musical, East West Players' Yankee Dawg You Die as Bradley with Sab Shimono and The Tempest as Caliban with fellow NYU Tisch alumnus Daniel Dae Kim, and an NAACP award-winning hip-hop version of The Two Gentlemen of Verona called 2G's at Los Angeles' Sacred Fools Theater. His best-known film role is starring opposite Danny Huston in the Bernard Rose film, The Kreutzer Sonata, which also features King playing the violin. King is most well known for his recurring roles on Riverdale, Numbers, 24, and Strong Medicine. Īdditionally, King was one of the creators and hosts of the long-running podcast, GeeksOn, with Aaron Hendricks, Donald Marshall, and Peter Gamble Robinson. King is the voice of Apple in numerous television ads and also voiced both Liu Kang and Fujin in Mortal Kombat 11 and will voice Kung Lao in upcoming animated film Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms. King has provided numerous iconic voices for both television and film animation and video games, from the voice of the Host in the Emmy Award winning episodes 'The Witness' and Liang and Renshu in 'Good Hunting.' His work ranges from the Father and Kozou in Studio Ghibli's Only Yesterday to Illidan Stormrage in the World of Warcraft francise, from The Persuader in Bruce Timm's Justice League vs The Fatal Five to The Atom in Injustice 2, and from the voice of Eian in Batman Ninja to the voices of Splinter and Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). He continues to live there with his wife and three children. The tour began in Los Angeles, where King moved after leaving the tour in 2000. 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.
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. At the age of eight, he began studying Aikido, which fostered a lifelong love of martial arts. At age five, King began to play the violin, a skill that would lead to later roles on both stage and screen.
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