Emmanuel Lewis (born March 9, 1971) is a retired American actor, best known for playing the title character in the sitcom Webster.
He began his acting career at age 9 working in commercials, including for Campbell's Soup, Life cereal, and Burger King.
[3] Lewis was unusually short, reaching only 4'3" in adulthood, which enabled him to play child roles younger than his actual age.
[4] At the time, rival network NBC was having ratings success with Diff'rent Strokes, a sitcom that featured a short African American boy living with white adoptive parents.
[6] In 1984, he was nominated for Best Young Actor in a Comedy Series for Webster and lost to Rick Schroder of Silver Spoons.
In 1987, he was nominated for Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor Starring in a Television Comedy or Drama Series, which Kirk Cameron of Growing Pains won.