The firstborn of four children, he emigrated to the U.S. at a young age and first became involved in acting when his family settled in the suburbs of Kansas City. After attending college at the University of Missouri Columbia, he moved to Los Angeles and first found guest star work on television before moving into the arena of voiceover. Amadi can currently be heard on NFL Network, CW, Spike, CBS, TWC Sportsnet, SNLA, and many others as well as in video games like Mass Effect 3, GTA V, Call of Duty - Advanced Warfare. He is known for voicing the title character in the video games Knack and Knack II, as well as the DC Comics supervillain Atrocitus in Infinite Crisis and Injustice 2. He also voiced Javik in Mass Effect 3, Angor Rot in Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia, and Shao Kahn and Cyrax in Mortal Kombat 11.
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The Legend of Vox Machina (2022)
Guest starring as Earthbreaker Groon
(2 episodes)
- Episode 2x10: The Kill Box (Feb 10, 2023)
- Episode 2x02: The Trials of Vasselheim (Jan 20, 2023)
What If...? (2021)
Starring as O'Bengh
- Episode 1x04: What If… Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands? (Sep 1, 2021)
Stillwater (2020)
Guest starring as Artist #2
(2 episodes)
- Episode 3x08: Birdwatching (May 19, 2023)
- Episode 3x07: Sounds Like Poetry (May 19, 2023)
Guest starring as Ikkyu
(2 episodes)
- Episode 3x10: Koo's Gift (May 19, 2023)
- Episode 3x09: New Neighbors (May 19, 2023)
Guest starring as Jimmy
(2 episodes)
- Episode 3x18: Missing Out (May 19, 2023)
- Episode 3x17: The Catch (May 19, 2023)
Primal (2019)
Guest starring as Warrior 1
- Episode 2x09: The Colossaeus, Part III (Sep 8, 2022)
Guest starring as Warrior 2
- Episode 2x09: The Colossaeus, Part III (Sep 8, 2022)
Guest starring as Warrior 3
- Episode 2x09: The Colossaeus, Part III (Sep 8, 2022)
Love, Death & Robots (2019)
Guest starring as Platoon Sergeant
- Episode 1x10: Shape-Shifters (Mar 15, 2019)
Guest starring as Officer Mantus
- Episode 2x03: Pop Squad (May 14, 2021)
3Below: Tales of Arcadia (2018)
Guest starring as Det. Scott
- Episode 1x02: Terra Incognita Part Two (Dec 21, 2018)
Aerial Africa (2018)
Starring as Narrator
(6 episodes)
- Episode 1x06: Zambia (May 6, 2018)
- Episode 1x05: Namibia (Apr 29, 2018)
- Episode 1x04: Western Cape (Apr 22, 2018)
- Episode 1x03: Botswana (Apr 15, 2018)
- Episode 1x02: Spirit of Ubuntu (Apr 8, 2018)
- Episode 1x01: Wild South Coast (Apr 8, 2018)
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia (2016)
Guest starring as Angor Rot
(11 episodes)
- Episode 1x26: Something Rotten This Way Comes (Dec 23, 2016)
- Episode 1x25: A Night to Remember (Dec 23, 2016)
- Episode 1x24: Angor Management (Dec 23, 2016)
- Episode 1x23: Wingmen (Dec 23, 2016)
- Episode 1x22: It's About Time (Dec 23, 2016)
- Episode 1x20: Where is My Mind? (Dec 23, 2016)
- Episode 1x18: The Shattered King (Dec 23, 2016)
- Episode 1x17: Blinky's Day Out (Dec 23, 2016)
- Episode 1x16: Roaming Fees May Apply (Dec 23, 2016)
- Episode 1x15: Mudslinging (Dec 23, 2016)
- Episode 1x14: Return of the Trollhunter (Dec 23, 2016)
Marvel's Avengers Assemble (2013)
Guest starring as M'Baku
(3 episodes)
- Episode 5x22: Atlantis Attacks (Feb 24, 2019)
- Episode 5x10: The Good Son (Nov 18, 2018)
- Episode 5x04: The Panther and the Wolf (Oct 7, 2018)