Eyal Podell

Eyal Podell, an Israeli-American actor and screenwriter, was born in Tel Aviv and spent his early childhood in Israel, the United States, and Hong Kong before settling in Westchester County, New York. He graduated from Dartmouth College and received classical acting training through the National Theater Institute, an arm of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. After moving to Los Angeles, he worked steadily across film and television. He made his film debut as the son of Al Pacino in The Insider. In television, he played Professor Adrian Korbel on the daytime drama The Young and the Restless, Evram Mintz in the space series Defying Gravity, and the character Namir Eschel on NCIS. He later took the role of Samuel Wilkins on the series NCIS: New Orleans. With writing partner Jonathon E. Stewart, he contributed story or screenplay material to Cars 3, The Angry Birds Movie 2, and Scoob!.