Roxie Roker
August 28, 1929 (95 years old) in
Roxie Albertha Roker was an American actress who portrayed Helen Willis on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons, half of the first interracial couple to be shown on regular prime time television. Roker is the mother of rock musician Lenny Kravitz and paternal grandmother of actress Zoë Kravitz.
Known For
Credits
- 1994 ·Cosmic Slopas (segment 'Space Traders')
- 1992 ·Hangin' with Mr. Cooperas Mrs. Russell
- 1987 ·The Day My Kid Went Punkas Phyllis Brooks
- 1987 ·A Different Worldas Dean Barksdale
- 1987 ·Amazon Women on the Moonas Female Republican (segment "Blacks Without Soul")
- 1985 ·227as
- 1984 ·Murder, She Wroteas Jennifer Bryce
- 1984 ·Punky Brewsteras Judge J.F. Taylor
- 1983 ·Making of a Male Modelas Madge Davis
- 1982 ·Cagney & Laceyas
- 1979 ·Sweepstakesas
- 1977 ·Billy: Portrait of a Street Kidas Mrs. Peoples
- 1975 ·The Jeffersonsas Helen Woodroow Willis
- 1974 ·Claudineas Mrs. Winston
- 1973 ·Kojakas Carol Lessonbee
- 1971 ·All in the Familyas Helen Willis