Shavar Ross is a former child star best known for his role as "Dudley," the best friend of Gary Coleman's "Arnold Jackson" on the hit 1978-1986 sitcom, Diff'rent Strokes. Ross was born on March 4, 1971 in the South Bronx, New York. When he was six years old, his parents separated. Ross moved with his mother and sister to Macon, Georgia, while his father moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting
