Casual coincidences: Podell acted in Deep Blue Sea (1999), and later played a U.S. submarine sailor serving in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II in the series "Angel" episode "Why We Fight." Podell would act again with David Boreanaz (who had previously played the vampire Angel) in Bones (2005).
Eyal was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and was raised in Hong Kong before moving to New York at the age of 8. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.