That’s right, everyone! On this day in 1976, Darius McCrary was born. He is 33 years old today.
McCrary is better known – or I might as well say “only known” – for playing ladies man Eddie Winslow on one of our ‘90s favorites: Family Matters.
Eddie was the idol of Steve Urkel, who was smarter, more creative, and a lot more recognizable than Eddie. If you saw the guy who played Eddie walking down the street, you probably wouldn’t really recognize him. But if Jaleel White is strutting on the sidewalk, you bet you would scream “URKEL!!” and make him wish he really had invented that Bruce Lee thing.
Eddie played a lot of basketball like a good stereotypical sitcom oldest son. He also, like the stereotype, liked going out with lots of girls. He claimed to be a singer on a dating talk show, only to sing the word “baby” over and over again.
I looked around for a good Eddie Winslow YouTube clip, and I couldn’t find much, so here he is rapping with the rest of the family:
Man, I miss early-‘90s sitcom raps. Happy birthday, Darius McCrary!
