Acting

Roxie Roker

Born 1929-08-28

Died 1995-12-02

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.

Credits

Newest first

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