Reece Noi

Actor

Born: Manchester, England, UK

BIOGRAPHY

Reece Noi (born 13 June 1988) is a British actor, writer born and raised in Manchester. He is best known for playing Taylor Mitchell in the BBC school drama Grange Hill from 2004 to 2007, and during 2009 as Earl Kelly in the fourth series of another BBC school, Waterloo Road. He is known for playing Mossador in HBO series Game of Thrones. Reece also starred in the 2019 Emmy Nominated Netflix crime series When They See Us. He is of mixed English and Ghanaian heritage. ==Career== He started his career in Liverpool Gangster film My Kingdom a modern day re-telling of Shakespeares King Lear playing The Fool opposite Richard Harris's Lear. Working consistently on TV and until he landed Grange Hill which led to Noi being 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). He made an appearance in the Channel 4 series Shameless Series 4 episode 5 as Debbie's Christian boyfriend, Luke Newman. As well as guest roles; playing Carl in BBC series Paradox and Tyler Simmons in ITV series The Bill in 2009. 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 the new BBC law drama Silk. He then went on to play Levi in Sky Atlantic's Hit & Miss. Noi then starred 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 2014–2015 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. Reece 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.

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