Matthew Wood is an American sound editor and occasional actor 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.
Career Starting at Lucasfilm as a game tester at LucasArts, 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, HELIOS-3D, senate guards, the battle droids and Poggle the Lesser. 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.
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. He voiced H.E.R.B.I.E. in The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025).
Filmography
Sound editing Year Title Notes 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 Nominated – Academy Award for Best Sound Editing 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2008 WALL-E Nominated – Academy Award for Best Sound Editing 2009 Star Trek 2011 Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope Remastered sound for Blu-ray release 2011 Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back 2011 Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi 2011 Super 8 2012 The Master 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Nominated – Academy Award for Best Sound Editing 2016 Rogue One 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
Voice acting Although Wood does not usually work as an actor he has provided voice over performances in multiple Star Wars media(most notably as General Grievous). He also made on camera acting as an extra, including portraying Bib Fortuna in 2 live action Star Wars projects.
Film Year Title Role Notes 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) 2025 The Fantastic Four: First Steps H.E.R.B.I.E. (voice) 2026 Avengers: Doomsday
Television Year Title Role Notes 2008 Robot Chicken Pooka, Fygar, Teacher 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 2021–24 What If...? Additional Voices 23 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"
Video games Year Title Role 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
References
External links
Matthew Wood - Skywalker Sound