# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/malik-yoba
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:36:25.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/malik-yoba"
name: "Malik Yoba"
slug: "malik-yoba"
description: "Abdul-Malik Kashie Yoba 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, and as Vernon Turner in Empire. He also starred in the role of FBI Deputy Director Jason Atwood in the ABC political drama Designated Survivor. In 2018, he joined the Netflix drama Seven Seconds as a member of a support group for parents who had lost their children. He also appeared in Jordan Peele’s TBS comedy The Last OG with Tracy Morgan."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Malik_Yoba_cropped.jpeg?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: "1967-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.13
  momentum:             1.905379131561892
  historical:           14.795188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0948272/"
    handle:    "nm0948272"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%DA%A9_%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "ملک یوبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Yoba"
    title: "Malik Yoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "مالك يوبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%DA%A9_%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "ملک یوبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%95%D9%84%DB%8C%DA%A9_%DB%8C%DB%86%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "مەلیک یۆبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Yoba"
    title: "Malik Yoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Yoba"
    title: "Malik Yoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%DA%A9_%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "ملک یوبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Yoba"
    title: "Malik Yoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Yoba"
    title: "Malik Yoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Yoba"
    title: "Malik Yoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A8%E3%83%90"
    title: "マリク・ヨバ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EB%A6%AD_%EC%9A%94%EB%B0%94"
    title: "마릭 요바"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Yoba"
    title: "Malik Yoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Yoba"
    title: "Malik Yoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%99%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0"
    title: "Малик Йоба"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2233091"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12977"
    title: "Malik Yoba"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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