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Joivan Wade ( ; born 23 July 1993) is an English actor known for playing Manyou in the

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comedy television series '' Big School'',

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on the BBC

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'', and Victor Stone/Cyborg in the

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''.

Early life

Wade was born 23 July 1993 to Derek and Andrea Wade. His father was a social worker and a member of the 1980s

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group The Wades, who founded The Polishing Project, a scheme to help disadvantaged youth identify and achieve their goals. His mother is an ordained minister and corporate life coach. Joivan has three brothers. Derek Wade died in 2014, and his mother remarried. Wade read comic books heavily while younger. A high-energy child, Wade enrolled at the age of 13 at the D&B Academy of Performing Arts in his home town of

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. He also played

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, and he was good enough to try out for both Charlton Athletic F.C. Under-23s and Academy and

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. Wade credits his parents for supporting him in both endeavors, and instilling in him the confidence to achieve whatever he wished to pursue. He decided when he was 15 years that he loved acting more than football. Friends told him to enroll at the

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. He decided to apply only three days before the deadline. His father drove him to the school so that he could turn in his application the day it was due. The BRIT School taught primarily dramatic acting, and Wade performed in a number of plays by

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. Wade's biggest inspiration is

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, an actor who also directs, produces, and writes. He has tried to model his career on Smith's by creating content, performing in it, and forming his own

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. Wade also cites

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, Tom Hardy,

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, and

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as role models in terms of acting and career path. While at the BRIT School, Wade met

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, and the two became close friends. Wade graduated from the BRIT School and then successfully auditioned for the

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Career

Mandem on the Wall

Deciding to accelerate his career, Wade decided to initially pursue comedy, as a comedy was the most likely to go viral on

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. In 2010, Glen Murphy of

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asked Wade and Ascott to perform a comedy sketch at one of the dance-and-comedy duo's live shows. They wrote their sketch the night before the show, and were a hit with the audience. Dee Kaate, who had performed a stand-up comedy act in the show, met with them afterward. The three immediately began discussing ways to create their own content to boost their careers. Eight days after the Twist and Pulse live show, the trio filmed their first episode of ''Mandem on the Wall'', a

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about three young

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men sitting on a wall, flirting with passing girls, and " talking bullshit". ''Mandem'' premiered on December 24, 2011. Within a month, the episode had 1.1 million views on

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and the trio was famous among teens and young adults in Britain. Wade's father helped manage the ''Mandem'' project, which eventually had a live presentation at the

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theatre in 2015.

British television success and film debut

The three worked on ''Mandem on the Wall'' in order to get on television. Based on the success of ''Mandem'', Wade was cast in the first series of the

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comedy '' Big School'', which aired in 2013.

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became interested in the trio based on their success with ''Mandem'' as well, and cast Wade, Ascott, and Kaate in the teen drama ''

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'' on E4. ''Youngers'' lasted for two series. Big Talk Productions encouraged Wade, Ascott, and Kaate to pitch their own show. That pitch never happened: There were delays in securing the green-light for a second series of ''Youngers'', and the trio did not want to leave the show in the lurch. In 2014 and 2015, Wade appeared in two episodes of ''

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'' as Rigsy, a young graffiti artist who helps save the world. Wade joined the cast of

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'' in February 2016 as

, taking over the role from

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. Filming four episodes a week for four months proved time-consuming, and Wade says his businesses suffered from it. Wade, Ascott, and Kaate filmed ''The JPD Show'' for

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in mid-2016, but the pilot was not picked up. The trio also starred in the 2016 film '' The Weekend'', a comedy about three youths who find a gangster's sack of money and spend it all before the mobster demands it back. ''The Weekend'' marked Wade's British feature film debut.

Wall of Comedy and ''Shiro's Story''

Wade says that his acting career took so much time away from ''Mandem on the Wall'' that the trio lost their audience and the web series died. The three wrote, directed, and acted in their own and joint projects, but had no media platform for them. Reviving ''Mandem'' as a platform did not seem appropriate, so Wade, Ascott, and Kaate created the

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page Wall of Comedy in 2015 as their new platform. Wall of Comedy swiftly began to feature the work of other comedians, and subsequently developed channels on

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, YouTube, and other social media as well. Wall of Comedy began with posts receiving about 300,000 "likes" on YouTube. Within six months, posts were receiving 1.5 million "likes" or more. By July 2019, Wall of Comedy had more than 3.5 billion views across all media platforms. The trio then co-founded Wall of Music to promote their own and others' musical endeavors, and Wall of Talent to promote up-and-coming actors and performers. Wade and Ascott produced and co-starred in the short film ''Shiro's Story'' in 2018. Written and directed by

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(real name: Andrew Onwubolu), the story is about a South London boy who becomes involved with drug dealing and gang violence. His life is complicated when the girl he believed to be his was actually fathered by one of his friends. The story is told largely through

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lyrics

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hed by the cast. The film aired in three parts on YouTube. The last episode received 1 million views in its first five hours online.

American success

The same year he made ''Shiro's Story'', Wade made his American feature film debut in ''

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'', portraying a vengeful drug dealer named Isaiah. Producer

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saw Wade in ''The First Purge'', and three days after the film's premiere invited him to audition for Berlanti's forthcoming

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series ''

''. Wade did an audition tape, and sent it in. Hearing that it was going to be 13 one-hour episodes, he lost interest because he didn't want to be taken away from his production company for any length of time. A month later, Berlanti's casting office in the United Kingdom asked him why he hadn't followed up. Only then did Wade learn the role was for Victor Stone/Cyborg. Wade still hesitated, and two hours later Wade's agent in

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called to say Berlanti had just sent him an email asking Joivan to take the role. His Los Angeles agent sent up a

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call to explain the series further. Four days later, Wade flew to Los Angeles for an in-person audition. Two days later, Berlanti gave him the role.

Other projects and accolades

Wade, Ascott, and Kaate jointly own JPD3 Entertainment, a production company. With one of his brothers, Wade formed a

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, Wade's World. According to Wade, "It tackles things like how to pursue a nine-to-five while living out your dream, how to let go of what the naysayers are saying and forget the hate." The foundation produces videos for its own YouTube channel. In 2019, ''

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'' named Wade as one of the "10 Brits to Watch.

Personal life

Jovian Wade is a

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Filmography

Film

Television

Web

Awards and nominations

References

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External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wade, Joivan Living people British male television actors British male film actors People from the London Borough of Bromley Black British male actors 1993 births 21st-century British male actors Male actors from London People educated at the BRIT School National Youth Theatre members