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Jaleel Ahmad White (born November 27, 1976) [1] is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Steve Urkel on the sitcom Family Matters. [2] The character was originally intended to be a one-time guest appearance on the show; however, he was an instant hit with audiences and White became a regular cast member, and eventually the main protagonist.
As the show progressed, episodes began to center increasingly on Steve Urkel, and other original characters also played by White, including Steve's suave alter-ego, Stefan Urquelle (who is similar to Jaleel White's real-life self), and his female cousin, Myrtle Urkel.
The Urkel Dance was a novelty dance that originated in the season two episode, "Life of the Party". It incorporated Urkel's hitched-up pants and nasal voice. [ 15 ] The dance was popular enough to appear on another show, Step by Step , when the Steve Urkel character appeared in a crossover in the season one episode, "The Dance".
The feel-good sitcom Family Matters premiered in 1989, and is perhaps best remembered for the family patriarch Carl Winslow’s (Reginald VelJohnson) feud with his nerdy neighbor Steve Urkel ...
You know Jaleel White's face. You know his voice. And now, he's sharing his story in a new memoir. In Growing Up Urkel, out Nov. 19 from Simon & Schuster, the Family Matters star takes readers ...
White, 43, shared with TODAY a challenge he said he faced after "Family Matters" went off the air in 1998. Jaleel White shares favorite 'Family Matters' moments, inspiration for Steve Urkel Skip ...
His character was rewritten as a good guy and to serve as a friend of Eddie's. Like Steve Urkel (the show's most famous character), Waldo was an outlandish, almost surrealistic person. While Steve was the resident nerd, Waldo was the resident idiot. Waldo eventually reached a point in his lack of intelligence to where he even manages to annoy ...
OPINION: Steven Q. Urkel was one of the most iconic television characters of the ‘90s; I wonder how Jaleel White feels about Urkel’s celebrity.