Met his future wife, Gina Prince-Bythewood, while they were staff
writers on the series, "Different World, A" (1987).
As a teenager, Bythewood snuck backstage when James Earl Jones was on Broadway performing in Fences. He made it all the way to the actor's dressing room and got to meet him.
Bythewood was chairman of B-Dads, a father's group who fed homeless families and raised money for children with the sickle cell disease.
Attended Marymount Manhattan College, with classmates Erik Palladino
and Moira Kelly.
Is known as Reggie Rock.
Reggie Rock Bythewood went to high school with actor, Ron Eldard. It
was The High School Of Performing Arts.