Malik Yoba Movies and Career Information

Malik Yoba (born September 17, 1967) is an American actor and occasional singer. He is known for his co-starring role as NYPD detective J.C. Williams on the popular Fox police drama New York Undercover from 1994 to 1998, and has also appeared in films such as Cool Runnings and Criminal. He has made appearances on the FOX television series Arrested Development as Ice, a bounty hunter whose real love is party planning. He has also been a recurring character, Brock Harris, on the UPN sitcom Girlfriends. Yoba also appeared in the FX Networks crime drama Thief and the NBC crime drama Raines. Currently, he co-stars as astronaut Ted Shaw on the futuristic ABC drama Defying Gravity. He recently announced his plans on bring back New York Undercover to the small screen in a modern tv series adaptation of the original series. Law & Order writer Courtney Parker penned a spec script for networks to bid on. Yoba, the fourth of six children, was born Abdul-Malik Kashie Yoba in Bronx, New York, the son of Mahmoudah Young (née Lanier) and Abdullah Yoba. Yoba was raised as a Muslim and has said that he is now "theoretically... a Christian" and "philosophically... a Buddhist".