Matthew Willig

Matthew Joseph Willig is an American actor, voice actor, and former NFL offensive tackle who voiced a muscly man in one episode of The Legend of Korra.

Television work

 * Brooklyn Nine-Nine
 * Dexter
 * iCarly
 * NCIS
 * Pair of Kings
 * Playing With Guns (TV movie)
 * The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange
 * The Suite Life on Deck

Filmography

 * We're the Millers (2013)
 * Bounty Killer (2013)
 * Buds (2012; short)
 * Abelar: Tales on an Ancient Empire (2010)
 * Year One (2009)
 * A Girl and a Gun (2008; short)
 * The Benchwarmers (2006)

Other credits

 * Spider-Man: Shattered Dreams (video game)
 * Super Bowl XXXVIII (self)

Career
Willig played 14 years for the Carolina Panthers, New York Jets, Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers, St Louis Rams, and San Francisco 49ers. Willig won a Super Bowl ring while playing for the St Louis Rams. He also made Super Bowl XXXVIII with the Carolina Panthers, but this time ended up on the losing side.

He portrayed the character Special Agent Simon Cade in season eight of NCIS until the first episode of season nine which was aired on September 20, 2011. In 2009 he had a supporting role as a brutish caveman tormenting Jack Black and Michael Cera in the motion picture Year One. He appeared as a gang member named Little Chino on the Showtime series Dexter (2007) and has appeared as a bodyguard named Yuri on the NBC series Chuck.

Willig has acted in numerous national commercial campaigns, including a Capital One spot with David Spade, a Bud Light spot, and as an action hero in a Halls commercial. He also appeared in a season 7 episode of Malcolm In the Middle, as Crash, a recovering alcoholic, and had a small role in the 1993 Hong Kong action movie Full Contact. He played Mike Drake in the critically acclaimed independent thriller The Employer and also appears in the film A Resurrection.