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      • In 1994, Yoba began his role on the popular Fox police drama series New York Undercover, opposite Michael DeLorenzo.
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    Revolution. Abdul-Malik Kashie Yoba (born September 17, 1967) is an American actor. He is known for his starring role as NYPD Detective J. C. Williams on the Fox police drama New York Undercover and as Yul Brenner in the film Cool Runnings. He appeared as former FBI agent Bill Harken on the Syfy drama series Alphas, as Jim Hudson in Revolution ...

  3. Dec 9, 2014 · Yoba’s acting career began in 1989 with a small AIDS-education film called Seriously Fresh. In 1991, he landed a starring role in the Disney film Cool Runnings.

  4. Malik Yoba started his television career along with his film career when he landed his first role as Fisher in the American sitcom ‘Where I Live’ (1993). He was then cast in one episode of the police television drama series ‘Law &Order’ (1994), where he played the character of ‘Pat Williams’.

  5. Malik Yoba was an accomplished talent and community activist before being cast in the Fox network television drama New York Undercover in 1994, a show with the noteworthy distinction of being the first primetime network television drama to feature two actors of color.

  6. Apr 27, 2024 · How Did Malik Yoba Start His Professional Career? Malik began his acting career in 1993 with the film Cool Runnings, in which he played Yul Brenner. After playing The Creeper in the 1995 film Smoke, he was named Detective Carson in Cop Land in 1997.

  7. Actor and youth activist Malik Yoba was born Abdul-Malik Kashie Yoba on September 17, 1967 in the Bronx, New York to Erutan Abdullah Yoba and Mahmoudah Young Lanier. He was raised as a Sunni Muslim in East Harlem. Yoba earned his high school diploma in 1989 from City-As-School in Manhattan, New York.

  8. Sep 17, 2023 · Malik Yoba began his role in the popular police drama series New York Undercover in 1994, opposite Michael DeLorenzo. He and DeLorenzo made television history, as the series was the first police drama on American television to feature two people of color in the portraying roles.