David Hayter

David Hayter
Hayter at the 2024 Game On Expo
Born
Alma materRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Toronto Metropolitan University
Occupations
  • Actor
  • screenwriter
  • producer
  • director
Years active1993–present
ChildrenNatasha Hayter

David Hayter is a Canadian-American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is well known as the English-language voice actor for Solid Snake and Naked Snake in the Metal Gear video game series. He wrote the superhero film X-Men (2000), for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Writing. He also co-wrote The Scorpion King (2002), X-Men's first sequel, X2 (2003), and Watchmen (2009), and was a writer and producer on the streaming television series Warrior Nun.

His other roles include Sean Barker/The Guyver in Guyver: Dark Hero (1994), and King Shark on The Flash (2016-19), and voiceover work in various video games. In 2014, he made his directorial debut with the action horror film Wolves.