Roxie Roker
Acting Born Aug 28, 1929 19 credits
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.
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Full filmography
- Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Jennifer Bryce
- Cagney & Lacey (1982)
- A Different World (1987) as Dean Barksdale
- Kojak (1973) as Carol Lessonbee
- The Jeffersons (1975) as Helen Woodroow Willis
- All in the Family (1971) as Helen Willis
- Punky Brewster (1984) as Judge J.F. Taylor
- 227 (1985)
- Hangin' with Mr. Cooper (1992) as Mrs. Russell
- Roots (1977) as Malizy
- $weepstake$ (1979) as Margaret
- Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) as Female Republican (segment "Blacks Without Soul")
- Claudine (1974) as Mrs. Winston
- Cosmic Slop (1994) as (segment 'Space Traders')
- Making of a Male Model (1983) as Madge Davis
- The Bermuda Triangle (1979) as Bohamiar Radio Operator
- Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid (1977) as Mrs. Peoples
- The Day My Kid Went Punk (1987) as Phyllis Brooks
- Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant (1968) as Host