Malik Yoba

AbdulMalik Kashie Yoba , better known by his stage name Malik Yoba, is an American actor and occasional singer. 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 Cool Runnings. He also appeared as former FBI Special Agent Bill Harken on the Syfy drama series Alphas, as Jim Hudson in Revolution as well as Vernon Turner in Empire.

The fourth of six children, Yoba was born in Bronx, New York his parents are Mahmoudah Young and Abdullah Yoba. He is divorced from Trisha Mann, a model and actress who starred with Yoba in the stage play His Woman, His Wife in 2000. Yoba has three children daughter Dena with Mann, and another son Josiah and a daughter Pria from a previous relationship. Yoba is a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.

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