Reece Noi

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Reece Noi
Reece Noi in Los Angeles circa 2022.jpg
Reece Noi in Los Angeles circa 2022
Born (1988-06-13) 13 June 1988 (age 35)
Manchester, England
OccupationActor
Years active1999–present

Reece Noi (born 13 June 1988) is a British-Ghanaian actor. He is best known for portraying Taylor Mitchell in the BBC school-based drama serial, Grange Hill , from 2004 to 2007, and also Noel Parkin and Earl Kelly in the second and fourth series of Waterloo Road in 2007 and 2009 respectively, and Mossador in the HBO series Game of Thrones . Noi also starred in the 2019 Emmy Nominated Netflix crime series When They See Us .

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Career

Noi started his career in Liverpool gangster film My Kingdom , a modern day re-telling of Shakespeare's King Lear playing The Fool opposite Richard Harris's Lear. He worked consistently on TV until he landed his role in Grange Hill which led to Noi being very much in demand and he went on to secure roles in the BBC dramas Conviction and Doctors , where he played terminally-ill teenager Sam. Next came a recurring role in Emmerdale as Ryan Hayworth during 2007 and 2008. In 2007, Noi joined BBC school drama Waterloo Road , playing a character named Noel Parkin in the 8th episode of Series 2, and later returned in 2009 to play bad boy Earl Kelly, who in the eighth episode of the series fatally shot his girlfriend Maxine Barlow (played by Ellie Paskell).

Noi made an appearance in the Channel 4 series Shameless , series 4 episode 5, as Debbie's Christian boyfriend, Luke Newman. He also had guest roles of Carl in BBC series Paradox [1] and Tyler Simmons in ITV series The Bill in 2009. [2] [3]

Noi starred alongside Sophie Okonedo and Dougray Scott in ITV four-part drama Father And Son , playing Sean O'Connor on ITV1 in the spring of 2010. In 2011, he appeared in BBC law drama Silk. He then went on to play Levi in Sky Atlantic's Hit & Miss . [4]

In 2012, Noi appeared in ITV2 supernatural comedy Switch alongside former EastEnders star Lacey Turner. He featured on a number of popular UK roles before then appearing in Game of Thrones from 2014 to 2015 as an emancipated slave, called Mossador. In a 2019 interview with Australian publication IF Magazine Noi stated that executive producers David Benoiff and D.B Weiss liked his work on Season 4 so much they then wrote Mossador for him. [5] [6]

Noi appeared in FOX networks mini serial Houdini and Doyle . In 2019 he took on the role of Matias Reyes in Ava DuVernay's Netflix mini series "When They See Us" based on the true story of the "Central Park Five" The show has since been nominated for sixteen Emmy Awards.

In 2022 Reece joined the second and final series of The Mysterious Benedict Society in the recurring role of Marlon alongside Tony Hale as Dr. Curtain.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001 My Kingdom The Boy
2003The Virgin of LiverpoolWesley Churchill
2010 Four Lions Shoulderboy
ThreadsLiamShort film
2011SeamonstersKieran
FridayAidenShort film
2016BlissDanny
K-ShopMalik
2017AwayDamo
2019The PaintersNachoShort Film
2020UnsoundNoah
2022Diary of a SpyCamden

TV

YearTitleRoleNotes
2000Seeing RedWayne
2003Real MenLester
2004 Outlaws IshantiGuest
Conviction Darrell Milland
2004–2007 Grange Hill Taylor MitchellRegular
2006 New Street Law Adam LakeGuest
2007 Waterloo Road Noel Parkin
Dalziel and Pascoe Dean Bennett
Shameless Luke Newman
Doctors Sam Davies6 episodes
Casualty Marlon MillerGuest
2007–2008 Emmerdale Ryan Hayworth 5 episodes
2009Waterloo Road Earl Kelly 8 episodes
Paradox CarlEpisode 5
The Bill Tyler SimmonsGuest
2010 Father And Son Sean O'Connor
2011 Silk Mark Draper
In with the Flynns Wayne BartonGuest
Scott & Bailey Frank Goff
CasualtySteve Baker
2012 Hit & Miss Levi [4]
Switch Aaron
2014–2015 Game of Thrones Mossador3 episodes
2016 Houdini & Doyle Daniel Berry
2019 When They See Us Matias ReyesTV mini-series
2022 The Mysterious Benedict Society MarlonRecurring

Video games

YearTitleRole
2014 Dragon Age: Inquisition Rion the Elementalist/Scout Pellane/Griffon Wing Keep Merchant/Herald's Rest Patron (voices)

Theatre

Radio Drama

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References

  1. "BBC HD - Paradox, Episode 5".
  2. Reece Noi and Ralph Laurila star in The Bill 3 September 2009 Last checked: 23 December 2009
  3. Real Men review
  4. 1 2 "Hit & Miss: Meet the Cast and Characters". Sky. 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  5. Reece Noi at IMDb
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