Roxie Roker

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

Murder, She Wrote

Cagney & Lacey

The Jeffersons

A Different World

Punky Brewster

Kojak

All in the Family

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All Movies (7)

• Cosmic Slop1994 · as (segment 'Space Traders')
• The Day My Kid Went Punk1987 · as Phyllis Brooks
• Amazon Women on the Moon1987 · as Female Republican (segment "Blacks Without Soul")
• Making of a Male Model1983 · as Madge Davis
• The Bermuda Triangle1979 · as Bohamiar Radio Operator
• Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid1977 · as Mrs. Peoples
• Claudine1974 · as Mrs. Winston

All TV Shows (12)

• Hangin' with Mr. Cooper1992 · as Mrs. Russell
• A Different World1987 · as Dean Barksdale
• 2271985
• Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Jennifer Bryce
• Punky Brewster1984 · as Judge J.F. Taylor
• Cagney & Lacey1982
• $weepstake$1979 · as Margaret
• Roots1977 · as Malizy
• The Jeffersons1975 · as Helen Woodroow Willis
• Kojak1973 · as Carol Lessonbee
• All in the Family1971 · as Helen Willis
• Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant1968 · as Host