# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matt-william-knowles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:29:07.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matt-william-knowles"
name: "Matt William Knowles"
slug: "matt-william-knowles"
description: "Matthew William Knowles, known professionally as Matt William Knowles or Ma Tai, is an American actor. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he is known for portraying Jim Zwerg in the Spike Lee executive-produced civil rights drama Son of the South (2021), and for his work in Chinese-language film and television, including as the character of 'Rawa' in the $100 million fantasy film Asura (2018) and as 'Thor' in the sports dramedy Clash, which premiered at the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Knowles is also a graduate of Beijing Film Academy, where he became the first non-Asian student in the school's history."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matt_William_Knowles.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1985"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.81134
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/SupMattWilliam"
    handle:    "SupMattWilliam"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/mattwilliamknowles/"
    handle:    "mattwilliamknowles"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3741280/"
    handle:    "nm3741280"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://MattWilliam.com"
sources:
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    title: "马泰 (美籍演员)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matt William Knowles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مات ويليام نولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_William_Knowles"
    title: "Matt William Knowles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_William_Knowles"
    title: "Matt William Knowles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_William_Knowles"
    title: "Matt William Knowles"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%B9_%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85_%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "میٹ ولیم نولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Matt William Knowles"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump