Malik Yoba

Malik Yoba is one of those actors whose face you recognize long before you remember his name, and that is a quiet kind of greatness. From the Bronx beat cop in New York Undercover to roles in Cool Runnings, Alphas, and Empire, he has built a career on range rather than spectacle. What I admire is his durability: decades in a brutal industry, sliding between drama and comedy, even singing along the way. He attended a performing-arts high school and never stopped working that craft. Yoba is the kind of dependable, grounded presence that holds a production together, and I respect that deeply.

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Name (English)

Malik Yoba

Name (Japanese)

マリク・ヨバ

Reading

まりく・よば

Born

September 17, 1967 (age 59)

Origin

The Bronx, New York, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / singer / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

High school

Talent Unlimited High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik%20Yoba
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A8%E3%83%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2233091

Tags

• New York
• television actor
• film actor
• singer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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