Roxie Roker
Department: Acting
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
The Day My Kid Went Punk
1987
Making of a Male Model
1983
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
1977
Cosmic Slop
1994
Claudine
1974
Amazon Women on the Moon
1987
The Bermuda Triangle
1979
Murder, She Wrote
1984
All in the Family
1971
227
1985
The Jeffersons
1975
Punky Brewster
1984
Kojak
1973
Cagney & Lacey
1982
A Different World
1987
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
1992
$weepstake$
1979
Roots
1977
Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant
1968