A biography for Yahya Abdul-Mateen IIhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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 wanted to be Michael Jackson as a kid.”
“I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.”
“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.”