Trivia

He saved a friends life by performing the Heimlich Manuever when she began choking on doughnut holes.

He was a licensed Insurance Producer in Indiana.

As a teenager he was rushed to the ER after a near-death experience from an asthma attack while sleeping. During his stay at the hospital he was diagnosed with asthma bronchitis and was informed he would eventually outgrow it.

His nephew, Dr. Andraé Townsel, Ed.D. is the first African American to be appointed to Superintendent in Calvert County, Maryland.

Mandell and hip-hop rapper/actress Da Brat once attended the same church in Chicago, Illinois as teenagers and even walked down the aisle together as groomsman and bridesmaid after she convinced him to tell the bride to switch pairings during rehearsal.

In 2005, he was doing early morning souvenir shopping in London, England when the London Bombings happened.

He started weight training as a teenager because he felt he was too skinny.

He was a Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) recruit however after passing the PELLETB exam and the physical ability test at the Long Beach Police Academy, he decided not to pursue a career in law enforcement.

Performs his own stunts.

Steel-toe boots saved his right foot from being crushed while he was manually operating a freight elevator for a manufacturing plant in Indiana.

He was in the ER with his mother (Dolores Frazier) when doctors unsuccessfully tried to revive his father (Herbert A. Frazier, Jr.) from COPD. His father passed away at the age of 81 (3 weeks before his 51st wedding anniversary). His mother passed away 12 years later at the age of 88. She was a 15-year breast cancer survivor.

He obtained his Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) card after working with actor, director, playwright, filmmaker and comedian Tyler Perry on OWN's "If Loving You Is Wrong" (2015) TV series.

His father (Herbert A. Frazier, Jr.) was awarded the American Campaign Medal/Ribbon from the U.S. Navy for performed duties in the American Theater of Operations during World War II. His father later retired from Chrysler Corporation at the age of 49 after 32 years of service.

He is the self-proclaimed Air Hockey champion.

He was once represented by Terry Mandel, wife of comedian, actor, judge of NBC's "America's Got Talent" and former television host of NBC's "Deal or No Deal" Howie Mandel.

He often has been mistaken for hip-hop recording artist/actor LL Cool J having once worked with him on CBS's Primetime Emmy®-nominated action television series "NCIS: Los Angeles" (2014).

He was born on his Aunts (Gigi) birthday (December 17th) who was given the honor of naming him.

He was Academy Award®-winner Cuba Gooding Jr.'s photo double in FX's nine-time Emmy® Award-winning & two-time Golden Globe Award-winning TV series "American Crime Story" (2016) advertising campaign.

He's a die hard University of Michigan Wolverine fan. #GoBlue.

He was Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL running back Herschel Walker's photo double/stand-in for AT&T's College Football national commercial campaign.

He was selected to serve on the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards Theatrical Motion Picture Nominating Committee.

He received an Honorable Mention for "Best Accompanying Actor" at the "Los Angeles Film Review Independent Film Awards 2015" for the short film titled "Ticketed" (2015) which went on to become an official selection for the 2015 Short Film Corner at Cannes International Film Festival and landed a distribution deal with Shorts TV.

He was an Ambassador for the 2015 "All Sports Expo" in Ontario, California where he met former American boxer and Olympic heavyweight champion Henry Tillman (a person he portrayed on TV1's "Celebrity Crime Files: Contenders to Offenders" (2014).

He has lived in six U.S. cities (Detroit, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington D.C., Indianapolis and Los Angeles).

Prior to meeting his wife (Tonya), she use to babysit his eldest sister (Michelle) kids as a teenager. They eventually married on his parent's 59th wedding anniversary.

He won First Place and a Apple iPad after submitting his baby photo in the Gerber Generation Employee Photo Search Contest while working for Nestlé in Indiana.

Two-time Emmy® Award-winning TV News producer Alyssa Nakamoto did a write-up on him performing musically at Leimert Park Drum Circle in Los Angeles, California.

He does not drink or smoke.

In 2005, While leaving a popular nightclub with his date in Atlanta, Georgia NFL Hall of Famer (and his favorite Michigan Wolverines player) Charles Woodson asked him to vouch for him to security so he could enter the building.

He was a contestant on CBS's six-time Daytime Emmy® Award-winning game show "The Price Is Right" (2022) winning over $33K in prizes including a new car.