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Malik Yoba
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September 17, 1967 in Bronx, NY
Biography:Despite the phenomenon of many young actors struggling for years to break into Hollywood -- driving taxicabs and waiting tables until determination, persistence, and raw ability reel in a breakthrough -- a select few stumble into acting and celebrity by sheer happenstance. Malik Yoba epitomizes this idea. While working in a field with virtually no connection to the entertainment industry, Yoba decided, simply for fun, to attend a casting call session for a forthcoming Disney comedy called Cool Runnings. When his phone rang one month later, that single call changed Yoba's life forever. Born September 17, 1967, in New York City, Yoba came of age in the crime-ridden ghettoes of the Bronx and Harlem -- so crime-ridden and dangerous, in fact, that he found it impossible to escape the reach of violence. He fell into the path of a bullet at age 15, which hit him in the neck but (fortunately) did not inflict... Full Biography
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From left: Michael J. White, Malik Yoba and Richard T. Jones in "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get...
Clockwise from left: Richard T. Jones (standing), Tyler Perry (seated), Sharon Leal and Denise...
Malik Yoba and wife Kat
Malik Yoba and wife Kat
Malik Yoba and wife Kat
Michael Jai White and Malik Yoba attend the Thurgood Marshall College Fund's 21st Anniversary Award...
Malik Yoba attends the Thurgood Marshall College Fund's 21st Anniversary Award Gala at the Sheraton...
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