- Currently a digital media executive of IEG Holding (October 2007)
- Originally hired to play the role of "Michael Evans" in the series Good Times (1974). The producers rescinded the offer and hired Ralph Carter instead, due to his more extensive experience in front of a live audience at the time.
- Has twice portrayed characters that shared his first or last name. In What's Happening!! (1976) and its spin-off, What's Happening Now! (1985), he portrayed Dwayne Nelson. In a guest appearance on Sanford and Son (1972) and that show's spin-off Grady (1975), he played Grady's grandson Haywood.
- A partner with an Internet Company. (March 2002)
- Plays the drums, as showcased on the final episode of the original What's Happening, performing at the neighborhood "Benefit Show".
- Co-starred in two spinoffs: What's Happening Now which was a spinoff from the series that made him famous, What's Happening, and before that a Sanford & Son spinoff, Grady, as Whitman Mayo's grandson.
- Son of Haywood Nelson, Sr, and Maxine Nelson.
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