Roxie Roker
- Acting
- August 28, 1929
- December 2, 1995
Biography
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
Filmography
- Cosmic Slop · (segment 'Space Traders')
- Hangin' with Mr. Cooper · Mrs. Russell
- The Day My Kid Went Punk · Phyllis Brooks
- A Different World · Dean Barksdale
- Amazon Women on the Moon · Female Republican (segment "Blacks Without Soul")
- 227
- Murder, She Wrote · Jennifer Bryce
- Punky Brewster · Judge J.F. Taylor
- Making of a Male Model · Madge Davis
- Cagney & Lacey
- $weepstake$ · Margaret
- The Bermuda Triangle · Bohamiar Radio Operator
- Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid · Mrs. Peoples
- Roots · Malizy
- The Jeffersons · Helen Woodroow Willis
- Claudine · Mrs. Winston
- Kojak · Carol Lessonbee
- All in the Family · Helen Willis
- Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant · Host