The Cosby Show star Geoffrey Owens now works $11-an-hour supermarket job
An actor who starred in The Cosby Show now works an $11-an-hour job in a supermarket.
Geoffrey Owens, who payed Elvin in the TV show that starred Bill Cosby as the patriarch of the Huxtable family, has been spotted working behind the tills at Trader Joe’s, an American grocery store chain.
A shopper recognised Geoffrey when they spotted him sitting behind the till at the discount store in Clifton, New Jersey.
Geoffrey was pictured wearing the Trader Joe’s grey uniform T-shirt and a badge bearing his name.
His T-shirt was covered in stains as he weighed a bag of potatoes for a customer.
Karma Lawrence, 50, was shopping with her wife, Yanelle, 40, on Saturday evening when she spotted Geoffrey and took some pictures.
The medical secretary, who lives in Clifton, said: “I was just in Trader Joe’s and I said to my wife, I said, ‘Wait a minute, that’s the guy from The Cosby Show’.
“She looked at him and said, ‘It looks like him. He’s a little heavier.’
“I pulled up a site on the internet to look at a picture of him and said, ‘That is him.’
“I have never seen him at Trader Joe’s before. I was getting a bunch of groceries and he wasn’t really looking at anybody, but he said, ‘Have a nice day’.”
Geoffrey starred on the NBC sitcom between 1985 and 1992.
The 57-year-old, from Brooklyn, New York, went on to appear in TV shows like Law & Order, That’s So Raven, Medium and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, as well as many others.
According to IMDB, he appeared in an episode of TV show Elementary earlier this year and has two projects currently in post-production.
In a short film named Fizzle, he’s credited as ‘Man Who Sneezes’, and in movie Impossible Monsters, which tells the story of an ambitious professor who becomes caught up in the murder of a participant in his sleep study, he plays a character named Jacobs.
