Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Yahya Abdul-Mateen Ii's biography

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is 36 years old actor born at New Orleans. Yahya was born on Tuesday 15th of July 1986. According to year of birth 1986 he belongs to Millennials. Birthday on 15th of July means Yahya is Cancer. Cancer is a watery sign. They are very friendly and show motherly love to everyone. According to ascendant calculator, an important trait of these natives is their sensitive nature.

He is native english speaker. He is black american. He is citizen of United States of America. Yahya is an adherent of islam. His primary profession is to be actor. You can know him also as television actor, film actor. Yahya is recently known as architect. He received Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Watchmen in 2020

Yahya Abdul-Mateen Ii's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: University of California, Berkeley, Yale School of Drama, McClymonds High School.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen Ii's career

His main focus is to be actor. Yahya is famous thanks to Aquaman. You could see him also in Watchmen.

Awards and competitions

Yahya Abdul-Mateen Ii's Awards

• Signed on to play Cal in Watchmen under the impression that he would be playing Regina King's husband. He had no idea he was actually going to be Dr. Manhattan too, the role for which he won an Emmy Award.

What else you don't know about Yahya Abdul-Mateen Ii ?

His middle name is Abdul-Mateen.

What Yahya Abdul-Mateen Ii has done for a first time

• He is the first actor to play Aquaman's arch-enemy Black Manta in live-action.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen Ii's quotes

• I'm the youngest of six kids, and I grew up with a lot of noise, a lot of music, and a lot of laughter.
• I'm so thankful every day.
• I have a love-hate relationship with working out. I do not enjoy the experience when I'm doing it, but I never regret it.
• I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.
• I just want to do work that gets people excited and makes them feel things, no matter their economic or racial background.
• If you look at the story of 'The Get Down,' it's the story of young people, unknowns thrown together by their resources, trying to create something.
• I wanted to be Michael Jackson as a kid.
• I had taken an acting class at Berkeley - I was on the track team, and a friend of mine on the team said, 'You should take an acting class. It's just like recess.' So I viewed it as a simple credit.
• I did not sit down and watch 'Baywatch' growing up. But I do specifically remember it coming on, and I remember it going off. I watched something that came on right before and then going back to that channel to watch what was coming on afterwards.
• My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.
• I'm not very excitable as a person. What I say is, I'm always chillin', I'm always chillin'.
• Acting was always in the back of my head.
• I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.
• I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked me then, that was one of the greatest jobs that had happened to me in terms of my career.
• I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?
• I think that everybody likes the bad guy.
• My performance, I believe, is about my duty to the script, and my duty to the story that we're trying to tell, and I try to do that in a way that is true, in a way that's going to hold up the script, and that's going to be fun for the viewers to watch.
• I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.
• I'm a thinker.
• For the things that I've been involved in, most of it has really been - it's been a mixture of action and then drama.
• 'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?
• I get messages all the time saying, 'Thank you, brother, for representing for us Muslims. I was thinking about changing my name, but now that I see you, I'll never change it.'
• I love Apple Jacks, they send me over the edge. Once I start eating Apple Jacks, I start to crave sugar, and next thing you know, my bills are late and I don't know my lines and I'm late to set.
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen Ii's height, body shape

Lets describe how Yahya Abdul-Mateen Ii looks. We will focus on his height, body shape and hair color. Yahya is tall as 6' 2" (188 cm). Body build is athletic. His hair is shade of black.

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