Darryl M. Bell

Who is Darryl M. Bell?

Darryl M. Bell is an American actor best known for his role as Brother X-Ray Vision in the 1988 Spike Lee film, School Daze and as Ron Johnson, Jr. on the NBC sitcom, A Different World. Additionally, he starred on the short-lived UPN sitcom, Homeboys in Outer Space as Morris Clay.

Bell is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He pledged into the fraternity through Delta Zeta Chapter in Spring 1982.

Bell attended Syracuse University. He is in a 20-year-long committed relationship with actress Tempestt Bledsoe, who co-starred in the NBC TV comedy The Cosby Show. The couple appeared together in the Fox reality TV series Househusbands of Hollywood, that debuted in August 2009.

Bell graduated from Delbarton School in Morristown, New Jersey in May 1981, where he was one of four African American students, accounting for 1% of the school's enrollment.

Bell's father, Travers J. Bell, Jr., was the founder of the first black firm on the New York Stock Exchange.