- Born
- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is an American actor. He portrayed David Kane, the Black Manta in the DC Extended Universe Aquaman films, and Bobby Seale in the Netflix historical legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7. For his portrayal of Cal Abar in the HBO limited series Watchmen, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He also starred in an episode of The Handmaid's Tale and Black Mirror, and portrayed incarnations of Morpheus and Agent Smith in The Matrix Resurrections.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- ParentsYahya Abdul-MateenMary Abdul-Mateen
- RelativesSadruddin Abdul-Mateen(Sibling)Dorothy Abdul-Mateen(Sibling)Deidre Abdul-Mateen(Sibling)khadijah Abdul-Mateen(Sibling)Zakiyyah Abdul-Mateen(Sibling)
- He worked as an architect and city planner before he began acting.
- He spent as much as seven hours a day learning disco dancing for his role in ''The Get Down" (2016).
- He didn't know how to swim prior to being cast in Aquaman (2018) and learned how to do so before starting production.
- Studied drama at Yale. He was also accepted into New York University and Harvard.
- 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.
- 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 was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.
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