Y'lan Noel

Y'lan Noel
Born (1988-08-19) August 19, 1988
Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Alma mater
Occupation Actor
Years active 2012–present

Y'lan Noel (born August 19, 1988) is an American actor. He is known for portraying Daniel King in the HBO television series Insecure (2016–present).[1] He played the lead role in the 2018 horror film The First Purge.[2]

Early life

Y'lan Noel was born in Brooklyn. He was further raised in Queens until his family moved to Stone Mountain, Georgia. He is of Afro-Panamanian descent. He began attending Morehouse College and transferred to New York University.[1] Noel was worried about not being accepted, "I remember the admissions process to the acting program was 50% artistic and 50% academic and I was equally worried about both. I didn’t know what a “monologue” was until I was reading the application brochure...That said, my grades coming out of High School were just as underwhelming as my audition had to have been considering I wrote my “monologue” on the plane and paraphrased it during the audition." He continued through Tisch School of Arts until he was called away to Los Angeles. "I was being politely hounded by a friend from college who was living in LA and working as a manager to put myself on tape for a project one of his colleague’s clients was putting together."[3]

Career

He landed the role of Daniel King on Insecure. Noel described Daniel as being the opposite of him, "I was nervous about playing Daniel. I love being around women...but I’ve always felt a bit awkward, well, insecure, around women I’ve had crushes on. Daniel doesn’t seem to have any of that awkwardness...Daniel’s extremely confident and goes after what he wants."[4]

In 2018, he played the lead role of Dmitri in The First Purge, which he considered very challenging, having said, "I feel like I started to actually physiologically relate to these fictional characters and what they would have to experience if they were to go about surviving the Purge."[5]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2012 The Spartan King Jack Short film
2013 House of Another Henry Gibson
2018 The First Purge Dmitri
2018 Slice Big Cheese Post-production
2019 The Weekend Post-production

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2013 The Hustle Kutta Main cast
2016–present Insecure Daniel King Recurring (season 1)
Main cast (season 2–present)

References

  1. 1 2 Ballin, Sofiya (September 1, 2017). "Insecure's Y'lan Noel Makes It Easy To Be #DanielHive". Fader. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
  2. ↑ Crucchiola, Jordan (July 6, 2018). "The First Purge Star Y'lan Noel on Beating Up Nazis". Vulture. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Alumni Focus: Y'lan Noel". Method Acting Strasberg. December 14, 2015. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
  4. ↑ Armstrong, Olivia. "Y'lan Noel on Why Daniel Is Way More Than Just "The Other Guy"". HBO. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ Volpe, Allie (July 3, 2018). "'Insecure' + 'The First Purge' Star Y'lan Noel on How to Use Audition Nerves to Your Advantage". Backstage. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
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