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      Actress Michelle Thomas

      • NEW YORK (AP) -- Actress Michelle Thomas, who had television roles in The Young & The Restless, The Cosby Show and Family Matters, has died of cancer at age 29. Thomas died Tuesday in Manhattan, according to her publicist, Kahdijah Bell.
  1. On December 23, 1998 at the age of 30, Thomas died as a result of a desmoplastic tumor, in New York City at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

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  3. As the years have passed, fans often wonder where the cast members are now and what they have been up to since the show’s end. Here’s a look at the current lives and careers of the main cast...

  4. Sep 29, 2017 · After recently reuniting with the cast of 'Family Matters,' Jaleel White paid tribute to his co-star, Michelle Thomas who died in 1998.

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    • Reginald VelJohnson (Carl Winslow) Leading the Family Matters cast is Reginald VelJohnson as Carl Winslow, who is only one of several police officers the actors has notably played throughout his career.
    • Jo Marie Payton (Harriette Winslow) Actress Jo Marie Payton played Carl’s wife, Harriette - an elevator operator who originated as a supporting character on the ABC hit, Perfect Strangers, before getting her own spin-off in the form of Family Matters.
    • Jaleel White (Steve Urkel) Joining the cast as a guest star midway through Season 1 before becoming a series regular and, essentially, the main focus of the whole show when he was just a teen is Jaleel White as Steve Urkel, whom the actor has actually reprised a few times since Family Matters ended, but not quite the same way.
    • Kellie Shanygne Williams (Laura Winslow) The object of Steve’s affection for most of the series was the Winslows’ eldest daughter, Laura - the debut role of Kellie Shanygne Williams.
    • Reginald VelJohnson, Then. Carl Otis Winslow, the head of the Winslow household, was often the victim of pesky neighbor Steve Urkel's nerdy inventions.
    • Reginald VelJohnson, Now. VelJohnson has appeared in several TV series over the past few years, including Hart of Dixie, in which he played Dash DeWitt, and Mike & Molly, as Brother Heywood.
    • JoMarie Payton, Then. Harriette Winslow always spoke her mind when it came to issues within her family. Harriette first appeared as an elevator operator on an episode of Perfect Strangers and was such a popular character that the producers created Family Matters to showcase her family.
    • JoMarie Payton, Now. Since leaving Family Matters, Payton has worked sporadically in Hollywood, with one-off appearances on several TV series (Meet the Browns, Desperate Housewives and Reba).
  5. She played Steve Urkel’s girlfriend Myra Monkhouse in the ABC/CBS sitcom ‘Family Matters’. In 1997, doctors diagnosed her with a rare form of stomach cancer, intra-abdominal desmoplastic small-round-cell tumor. Just before being cast in ‘The Young and the Restless’, she underwent her first surgery.

  6. Aug 19, 2023 · 8. Michelle Thomas’ Death. In December 1998, her condition worsened again, and she had to be hospitalized. On her deathbed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, she had close ...

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