Voice Actor - David Hayter
Voicing - Solid Snake & Big Boss (Naked Snake)
One of the most famous voice actors of the Metal Gear Saga along side his Japanese counterpart Akio Ôtsuka. Though born in California, Hayter's parents were Canadian. He did some live acting in the early 1990s, but became interested in voice acting after appearing in an episode of the sitcom Major Dad as a character with a Russian accent. This led to his role as the voice of Captain America in the popular 1994 Spider-Man animated series. He also did some voices in various anime dubs, such as The Castle of Cagliostro. Contrary to popular belief, Hayter did not voice Wolverine/Logan in the X-Men animated series; that was the voice work of Cathal J. Dodd. Hayter is known to be a huge fan of the Black Widow comic books. It is said that he named his daughter Natasha after Black Widow's main character with the same name. In 1998, Hayter voiced Solid Snake in the highly successful PlayStation video game Metal Gear Solid. The deep, gruff voice of the game's protagonist is instantly recognizable and extremely popular with fans. He provided Snake's voice in later Metal Gear games such as Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (which was a remake of Metal Gear Solid), and provided the voice for a closely related character, Naked Snake, in the 2004 prequel, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Hayter has voiced characters in other video games, such as Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. For some voiceover projects, Hayter used the alias Sean Barker, the name of the character he played in the 1994 movie Guyver: Dark Hero. He also used this alias for his anime dub work in YuYu Hakusho when he voiced Kurama. Hayter wrote the screenplay of the comic book movies X-Men and co-wrote its sequel, X2: X-Men United. He also co-wrote The Scorpion King and produced unused drafts for Hulk and The Chronicles of Riddick.
