Acting came naturally to Amsterdam native Yannick de Waal with a father who was a screenwriter and a mother who was a teacher that both encouraged his artistic side. He made his professional acting debut at the age of 12. After finishing school, he moved to New York to study at the Lee Strasburg Institute. Being bilingual, he now works regularly in Europe and the United States. Yannick shows off his fit upper body in the pilot episode of the TV show The State while sitting on a guy’s shoulders as he has fun with people in the pool and lets us see his fine chest and abs.