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Eyal Podell

Eyal Podell is an Israeli-American actor and screenwriter known for television roles and for co-writing animated films such as Cars 3.

born 1975Adrian Korbel in The Young and the RestlessNamir Eschel in NCISCo-writing Cars 3

Born: 11 November 1975, Tel Aviv
Occupation: actor, film actor, television actor, screenwriter
Education: Byram Hills High School

Eyal Podell was born in 1975 in Tel Aviv

Podell was born in Tel Aviv in 1975 to a family of Jewish background. He spent his first years in Israel, then moved with his family to the United States and later to Hong Kong. After returning to the United States, the family settled in Westchester County, New York.

He attended Byram Hills High School in Armonk and graduated from Dartmouth College. He trained as a classical actor at the National Theater Institute, part of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.

In Los Angeles he worked in film and television. His first film role was as the son of Al Pacino's character in The Insider. On television he played Adrian Korbel in The Young and the Restless, Evram Mintz in Defying Gravity, Namir Eschel in NCIS and Samuel Wilkins in NCIS: New Orleans.

With his writing partner Jonathon E. Stewart, he wrote the screenplay or story for Cars 3, The Angry Birds Movie 2 and Scoob!. He is the grandson of Odif and Judy Podell, co-founders of the Usonia Homes community in Pleasantville, New York, and is working on a film about it.