Biography
Malik Yoba, also credited as Abdul-Malik Yoba, is an American actor. He was born on 17 September 1967 in the Bronx, New York.
Yoba began his screen career in 1993 with the role of Yul Brenner in Cool Runnings. He is known for his lead performance as Detective J. C. Williams in the Fox series New York Undercover (1994–1999), for which he received three consecutive NAACP Image Awards, as well as appearances in Cop Land (1997), Person of Interest (2011), Empire (2015), Designated Survivor (2016) and The Good Nurse (2022). He has also worked as a producer and occasional singer.
