A Different World cast list, including photos of the actors when available. This list includes all of the A Different World main actors and actresses, so if they are an integral part of the show you'll find them below. You can various bits of trivia about these A Different World stars, such as where the actor was born and what their year of birth is. This cast list of actors from A Different World focuses primarily on the main characters, but there may be a few actors who played smaller roles on A Different World that are on here as well.
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Ajai SandersA Different World - Ajai Sanders is an American actress and stand-up comedian. She is best known for her supporting role as Gina Deveaux in The Cosby Show comedy spin-off A Different World. Sanders is sometimes ...more
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Cree SummerRugrats, Tiny Toon Adventures, Inspector Gadget - Cree Summer Francks, best known as Cree Summer, is an American Canadian actress, voice actress, and singer. She is best known for her role as college student Winifred "Freddie" Brooks ...more
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Aries SpearsThe Proud Family, Mad TV, C Bear and Jamal - Aries Spears is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, and comedian. Spears was a regular on Fox's sketch comedy series MADtv, appearing in 198 episodes, making him the second ...more
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Darryl M. BellA Different World, Homeboys in Outer Space, Friday Night Videos - Darryl M. Bell is an American actor best known for his role as Big Brother X-Ray Vision in the 1988 Spike Lee film School Daze and as Ron Johnson, Jr. on the NBC sitcom A Different World. ...more
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Blair UnderwoodSex and the City, L.A. Law, The New Adventures of Old Christine - Blair Erwin Underwood is an American television, film, and stage actor and director. He played headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins on the NBC legal drama L.A. Law for seven years. He has ...more
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Dawnn LewisA Different World, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, The 10th Kingdom - Dawnn Lewis is an American actress and singer, known for her roles as Cheryl in the 1988 movie I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Jaleesa Vinson-Taylor on the NBC television sitcom A Different World, and ...more
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Glynn TurmanThe Wire, A Different World, House of Lies - Glynn Russell Turman is an American stage, television, and film actor as well as a writer, director, and producer. He is known for his roles as high school student Leroy "Preach" ...more
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Jasmine GuyDead Like Me, A Different World, Alex Haley's Queen - Jasmine Guy is an American actress, director, singer and dancer. She is best known for her starring role as the southern belle Whitley Gilbert-Wayne on the NBC television sitcom A Different ...more
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Bumper RobinsonSabrina, the Teenage Witch, Rocket Power - Bumper Robinson is an African-American actor and voice artist. Robinson got his nickname because he repeatedly bumped into things while running through his home as a young child.
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Kadeem HardisonA Different World, Cult, Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story - Kadeem Hardison is an American actor and director. He is best known for his role as Dwayne Wayne on A Different World, a spin-off of the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.
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Karen Malina WhiteA Different World, The Proud Family, Malcolm & Eddie - Karen Malina White is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her roles as Kaneesha Carter, the high school student in the 1989 film, Lean on Me, as Charmaine Brown during ...more
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Lisa BonetThe Cosby Show, A Different World, Life on Mars - Lisa Michelle Bonet is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Denise Huxtable Kendall on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, and originally starring in its spinoff A Different World.
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Loretta DevineGrey's Anatomy, A Different World, Eli Stone - Loretta Devine is an American actress and singer, best known for her roles as Marla Hendricks in the Fox drama series Boston Public, and for her recurring role as Adele Webber on the Shonda ...more
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Lou MyersA Different World - Lou Leabengula Myers was an American actor. Myers was typically typecast as a grumpy old man, but he has appeared in many movies, stage plays television sitcoms, and dramas. He got his first ...more
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Marisa TomeiA Different World, Game Over, Leg Work - Marisa Tomei is an American and Italian actress and producer. In a career spanning three decades, she had initial success in movies as a young actress, followed by a series of unsuccessful ...more
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Mary AliceA Different World, The Women of Brewster Place, I'll Fly Away - Mary Alice is an American actress.
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Gary DourdanCSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Swift Justice, The Office (1995) - Gary Dourdan is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Warrick Brown on the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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SinbadA Different World, The Redd Foxx Show, The Sinbad Show - David Adkins —known by his stage name Sinbad—is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He became well known in the 1990s from being featured on his own HBO specials, appearing on several ...more
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Ted RossA Different World, Sirota's Court, MacGruder and Loud - Theodore "Ted" Ross Roberts was an American actor who was probably best known for his role as the Lion in The Wiz, an all-African American reinterpretation of The Wizard of Oz. He won ...more
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Jada Pinkett SmithGotham, Hawthorne, If These Walls Could Talk - Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and businesswoman. She began her career in 1990, when she made a guest appearance in the short-lived sitcom True Colors. She ...more
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Vernee Watson-JohnsonA Different World, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels - Vernee Watson-Johnson is an American actress, author, and acting coach. She is best known for her recurring roles as Vernajean Williams on Welcome Back, Kotter and as Viola "Vy" Smith ...more
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Charnele BrownA Different World - Charnele Ann Brown is an American actress, producer, and singer. She is perhaps best known for her role as college student Kimberly Reese on the NBC sitcom A Different World. A 1984 graduate of ...more
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Keshia Knight PulliamThe Cosby Show, Tyler Perry's House of Payne, What About Your Friends: Weekend Getaway - Keshia Knight Pulliam is an American actress. She is best known for her childhood role as Rudy Huxtable, the youngest child of Cliff and Clair Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show and as ...more
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Raven-SymonéThe Cosby Show, That's So Raven, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper - Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman is an American actress, comedian, model, singer, songwriter, dancer, and television producer. She first appeared on television in 1989 on The Cosby Show as ...more
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Roseanne BarrRoseanne, Roseanne's Nuts, Downwardly Mobile - Roseanne Cherrie Barr is an American actress, comedian, writer, television producer, director, and 2012 presidential nominee of the California-based Peace and Freedom Party. Barr began her ...more
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Tamara TaylorNCIS, Bones, Hidden Hills - Tamara Taylor is a Canadian television actress. Her most famous role is that of Dr. Camille Saroyan, head of the Forensic Division, on the forensic crime drama Bones.
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Tisha Campbell-MartinMartin, My Wife and Kids, Rags to Riches - Tisha Michelle Campbell-Martin is an American actress and singer. She is known for her starring roles in the FOX television series Martin as Gina Waters-Payne from 1992 to 1997; and as Janet ...more
