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Roxie Roker

Acting

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.

Filmography

Cosmic Slop

as (segment 'Space Traders')

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

as Mrs. Russell

The Day My Kid Went Punk

as Phyllis Brooks

A Different World

as Dean Barksdale

Amazon Women on the Moon

as Female Republican (segment "Blacks Without Soul")

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Cast

Murder, She Wrote

as Jennifer Bryce

Punky Brewster

as Judge J.F. Taylor

Making of a Male Model

as Madge Davis

Cagney & Lacey

Cast

$weepstake$

as Margaret

The Bermuda Triangle

as Bohamiar Radio Operator

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

as Mrs. Peoples

Roots

as Malizy

The Jeffersons

as Helen Woodroow Willis

Claudine

as Mrs. Winston

Kojak

as Carol Lessonbee

All in the Family

as Helen Willis

Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant

as Host