Lyon Daniels

Lyon Daniels is an American actor and entertainer, starring in the film We Can Be Heroes (2020) and series Patriot (2015). Lyon was born on June 14, 2007 in Evanston, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. He is biracial, half African-American (father) and half Ashkenazi Jewish (mother), with Native American ancestry as well on his father's side. Lyon's father Joe was the original founder and drummer of the popular '90s rock band Local H, a member from its inception in 1990 until 1999, releasing 1 certified Gold and three critically acclaimed albums on Island Records during that time. Lyon's mother Heather works as a creative director/designer for the advertising industry, with experience in theatrical and key art campaigns for the entertainment industry. Lyon has two younger brothers, Rylan and Myles. When he is not acting, his hobbies include filming, directing and editing his own movies, as well as drawing, swimming and kickboxing. Lyon got his start at the young age of 18 months old modeling for Macy's, Target, Sears, Kohls and Vtech. As an actor, he is known for playing the recurring role of 'Efram' on the Amazon series Patriot (2015), opposite Michael Dorman, Terry O'Quinn and Michael Chernus (2015-2019). Most recently, he played a superhero named Noodles in the Netflix film We Can Be Heroes (2020), directed by Robert Rodriguez alongside Christian Slater, Priyanka Chopra, Sung Kang, Pedro Pascal and Boyd Holbrook. We Can Be Heroes holds the record for the most watched family film in the history of Netflix according to Forbes. Netflix has announced that a sequel is in development after Netflix projected that 44 million households viewed the film within the first 4 weeks!- Deadline