Matthew Lillard

Matthew Lillard is an American actor. He appeared in the Nordverse ad segment in and in the prequel one-shot  in a reference to and joking reprisal of his role in Hackers, Emmanuel "Cereal Killer" Goldstein. He was additionally described as "a friend of the show [Critical Role]".

Outside of Critical Role Productions, he appeared in Scream, Thirteen Ghosts, and Good Girls, and he has played Shaggy Rogers in two live-action films and in animated series since 2009. He is also one of the five founders of Beadle & Grimm's, which produced an official edition of the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn.

Critical Role Productions
Matthew first appeared on the channel in a Nordverse ad segment in. He played Emmanuel "Cereal Killer" Goldstein, a hacker who deceives BlackWillow73 (Sam Riegel) and CryptonicOverdrive (Laura Bailey) and traps them inside the internet to protect the Ultra Kodex. The role was a joking reprisal of his character in Hackers.

He played this character as a non-player character in the Nordverse prequel one-shot, for which he was originally announced as an unidentified special guest and was obscured in the announcement video. The character was the director of the fictional NSAA, a secret government organization employing the player characters, who turned out to be the antagonist Dwon Johnson and troll RU1NAT1ON.

Other work
Matthew played in the 2018 Stream of Many Eyes with Dungeon Master Mark Hulmes, Taliesin Jaffe, Sam Riegel, and Ashley Johnson. He also played in D&D Live 2019: The Descent with Dungeon Master Marisha Ray, Krystina Arielle, Patrick Rothfuss, and Deborah Ann Woll.

He is largely known for his work as an actor. In addition to Hackers, he played Stu Macher in Scream, Dennis Rafkin in Thirteen Ghosts, and Dean Boland in the television series Good Girls. He played Shaggy Rogers in the live-action films Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, and he's played the character since the retirement of Casey Kasem, the original voice actor, in 2009.

Matthew is also one of five founders of Beadle & Grimm's Pandemonium Warehouse, gaming company establishedin 2018 that creates licensed accessories and special editions for tabletop RPG releases. Beadle & Grimm's produced an official deluxe edition of the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn.

Trivia

 * Matthew Mercer mentioned Lillard immediately after the first Nordverse ad in : "I feel like somewhere, Matt Lillard's getting a nosebleed and doesn't know why."