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Reginald VelJohnson (born August 16, 1952 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American film and television actor who is most famous for his roles as Carl Winslow on the sitcom Family Matters and as the police officer Sgt. Al Powell in the hit film Die Hard (1988) and the hit sequel Die Hard 2 (1990). He also played a minor role in the 2002 film Like Mike. VelJohnson currently has homes in Los Angeles, California and Raleigh, North Carolina.

VelJohnson has done mostly theater work since the end of Family Matters besides making a few guest appearances on shows. He has also written a critically acclaimed series of shorts called Division Street. One of them, called "Sunday Evening Haircut", was made into a short in 2005. Reginald starred in it alongside Kiki Shepard.

VelJohnson also has made guest appearances in several TV shows, including The Equalizer, Diagnosis Murder, Twice in a Lifetime, Will & Grace, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Eve, Crossing Jordan, The Parkers and That's So Raven.

Trivia

• He is mostly known for playing police officers in movies and television. However, he has made other appearances as similarly uniformed characters: In Ghostbusters he has a brief appearance as a jail guard, and in Crocodile Dundee he plays a limo driver. He also had a smaller co-starring role alongside Tom Hanks in Turner and Hooch (1989), where he also played a policeman.
• Starred with Joe Burke in 1987 in Chariots of Fire.
• In the comic book Invincible, the title character attends Reginald VelJohnson High School.

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