- Born
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Well-known, king-sized actor and voice artist Kevin Michael Richardson was born in Bronx, New York. He is, perhaps, mostly recognizable for his deep voice, which he uses in many of his works.
Richardson is a classically trained actor. He first gained recognition as one of only eight U.S. high school students selected for the National Foundation for the Arts' "Arts '82" program, later he earned a scholarship to Syracuse University.
Kevin is well-known by various voice works, mostly villainous. He lent his voice to based-upon video game film Mortal Kombat (1995) as Goro, he was also in Matrix Revolutions (2003) as Deus Ex Machina, and made a brief appearance in Clerks II (2006) as a police officer. To mention that he did a brief additional voices for mega hit Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).
He did voice in many animated films and TV series, such as "The Mask - The Animated Series" (1995), "The New Batman Adventures" (1997), "Pokemon" (1998), "Powerpuff Girls" (1998), "Voltron: The Third Dimension" (1998), "Family Guy", Lilo & Stitch (2002), as well as "Lilo & Stitch" TV series, "Codename Kids Next Door" (2002), Batman VS Dracula (2005) (V), where he voiced Joker, "Mummy The Animated Series" (2003), TMNT (2007) as General Aguila, "Transformers Animated" (2007) as Omega Supreme and Batman: Gotham Knight (2008), as Lucius Fox.
He also did voices in such video games as Halo 2 (Tartarus), Kingdom Hearts (Sebastian) and others. He lives in Los Angeles and likes to work in Manhattan.
- IMDb mini biography by: svedzin
- SpouseMonica Richardson(May 2006 - present)
- ChildrenAnthony RichardsonMichael Richardson
- Deep, menacing voice
- Often plays villains and monstrous giants
- Was the first -- and, so far, is the only -- African American actor to play the Joker when he took the role on The Batman (2004).
- Is of Jamaican descent.
- Before he was hired to do voice work in The Animatrix (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003), he provided the voice of Morpheus in a "Matrix"-inspired spoof for the short-lived Clerks (2000).
- Is the youngest of 5 siblings.
- In 2021, he replaced Harry Shearer as the voice actor of Dr. Hibbert and Judge Snyder in The Simpsons (1989).
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