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Mustafa in August 2010
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Isaiah Amir Mustafa February 11, 1974 Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
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Years active | 1997–present |
Children | 1 |
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No. 18 | |
Position: | Wide receiver |
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Height: | 6 ft 3.5 in (1.92 m) |
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* Offseason and/or practice squad member only |
Isaiah Amir Mustafa (born February 11, 1974) is an American actor and former NFL practice squad wide receiver. Mustafa is widely known as the main character in the series of Old Spice television commercials, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like. He is also known for portraying Luke Garroway on Freeform's fantasy series Shadowhunters.
Mustafa was born in Portland, Oregon, the youngest of seven children of Shahidah Mustafa-Davis and John Wali Mustafa, who owned and ran a limousine service in Laguna Hills, California in the early 1980s. His father was killed when he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed. Mustafa studied history at Arizona State University.
Mustafa played basketball and ran track at Santa Clara High School in Oxnard, California. He did not play high school football, but he tried out for Moorpark College's football team hoping for an athletic scholarship; he became a free safety, and later became a wide receiver.
After transferring to Arizona State University in 1995, Mustafa was a starting wide receiver for the Arizona State Sun Devils but had an unspecified "confrontation" with a coach and was benched his senior year. He played during the 1997 Rose Bowl between the then-undefeated Sun Devils (led by Mustafa's friend Jake Plummer) and the Ohio State Buckeyes.