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