Roxie Roker
Acting
Born 1929-08-28
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
Popular credits
Murder, She Wrote
Jennifer Bryce
Roots
Malizy
Amazon Women on the Moon
Female Republican (segment "Blacks Without Soul")
All in the Family
Helen Willis
Kojak
Carol Lessonbee
The Jeffersons
Helen Woodroow Willis
Punky Brewster
Judge J.F. Taylor
A Different World
Dean Barksdale
Cagney & Lacey
227
Claudine
Mrs. Winston
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
Mrs. Russell
Making of a Male Model
Madge Davis
The Bermuda Triangle
Bohamiar Radio Operator
The Day My Kid Went Punk
Phyllis Brooks
Cosmic Slop
(segment 'Space Traders')
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
Mrs. Peoples
$weepstake$
Margaret
Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant
Host