Where Are They Now? The Cast of “Living Single”

Erika Alexander

I was just talking with my co-worker about how Erika Alexander’s role of Maxine Shaw might be one of the greatest characters to ever pop up on TV. She had great style, great wit, she was fierce and an intellectual, a maneater, and she had the eating habits of a dude. She was also the only girlfriend or friend in general on the show to not live in the same brownstone as the rest of the cast (she lived across the street). Maxine was a long ways away from Cousin Pam, who Alexander played on The Cosby Show. But since the show ended, we’ve only seen her around here and there. She did a random comedy with Tracy Morgan called 30 Years to Life, was in the movie Deja Vu, and had recent guest appearances on Criminal Minds, Suburgatory, and has a role in a film called The Magic City, which came out last year. We hope to see her more often…