Y'lan Noel

He is known for portraying Daniel King in the HBO television series Insecure (2016–2018).

He began attending Morehouse College and transferred to New York University.

[1] He continued through Tisch School of Arts until he was called away to Los Angeles.

"[4] In 2018, Noel 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] In 2021, Noel was reported as cast in the lead for a television pilot based on the Sam Greenlee novel The Spook Who Sat By The Door, to be produced by Lee Daniels.