Malik Yoba

Known for Acting

9/17/1967(Age 58)

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Malik Yoba (born September 17, 1967) is an American actor and occasional singer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Malik Yoba,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For (67 credits)

Movie

Jonesing: When Love Is a Habit

2025

Simone is a young poet and college senior navigating love and self-discovery while witnessing the unraveling of her parents’ once-revered relationship. Her father, a world-renowned author whose words once defined a generation’s understanding of love, and her mother, a sought-after creative director celebrated for capturing the essence of intimacy through her lens, built a life shaped by passion, artistry, and devotion until the foundation began to crack. As their love story fades from the idealized lens of the public into the stark reality of divorce, Simone begins to question whether love is ever as real as it seems. Now in her final year of college, she stands at the crossroads between the creative world she was born into and the growing disillusionment in her heart. Just as she prepares to give up on the idea of love altogether, she meets Myles, a charismatic transfer athlete with unexpected emotional depth.

6.9

Movie

The Good Nurse

2022

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

7.3

East New York

2022

Regina Haywood is the newly promoted deputy inspector of East New York, a working-class neighborhood at the edge of Brooklyn. She leads a diverse group of officers and detectives, some of whom are reluctant to deploy her creative methods of serving and protecting in the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification.

7.4

The Equalizer

2021

Robyn McCall, an enigmatic former CIA operative with a mysterious background, uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn.

5.0

Terror Lake Drive

2020

A single mother tries to dodge her troubled past by relocating to another city with her defiant teenager, only to discover there are forces that cannot be outrun.

Movie

Unicorns

2019

When Elise hits rock bottom, her mentor Marlon suggests she connect with Jonah, a teenaged boy battling severe depression of his own.

6.5

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019

Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities.

5.3

Movie

Awake

2019

A man wakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is, and learns that he's wanted by the police for a committing a series of murders.

4.4

The X Change Rate

2019

Award-winning drag queen, entertainer and TV personality Monét X Change, hot off her historic "RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars" win, brings her signature wit, heart and style to the BUILD Series stage this summer to this weekly variety talk show. Each week, Monét will turn stunning looks, sound off on current events, chat with her celebrity friends, kiki with the live studio audience, and spill a whole lot of tea, sis!

6.9

Movie

Take Point

2018

On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea's politician in an underground bunker below the Korean Demilitarized Zone. However, they get caught in the crossfire which causes tensions to escalate to the brink of World War III.

7.8

God Friended Me

2018

A self-proclaimed "pesky atheist" is encouraged to help strangers by someone claiming to be God who friends him on Facebook.

6.3

The Last O.G.

2018

An ex-felon is shocked to see just how much the world has changed when he is released from prison for good behavior after a 15-year stint and returns to his newly gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood.