Resultado de búsqueda
2 de dic. de 1995 · Find a Grave Memorial ID: 12466. Source citation. Actress. She is best known for her portrayal as 'Helen Willis' on the popular television sitcom The Jeffersons and mother of rock star Lenny Kravitz. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, she later attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1952.
Roxie entered this world in Miami, Florida. She was a daughter of Bahamian-born Albert Hubert Roker, a laborer, and a housewife Bessie Mitchell. Roxie was educated at Howard University, where she gained a bachelor degree in Fine Arts. She tied a knot with Sy Kravitz at a very young age and gave birth to her only son Lenny Kravitz.
The Jeffersons: Created by Norman Lear, Don Nicholl, Michael Ross, Bernard West. With Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover. A nouveau riche, African-American family who move into a luxury apartment building develop close, if occasionally fractious, relationships with other tenants.
5 de dic. de 1995 · Roxie Roker, who played half of one of TV’s earliest interracial couples when she appeared in “The Jeffersons,” has died, her publicist said Monday. She was 66. Roker, who played Helen ...
7 de jul. de 2020 · Jul 07, 2020 02:30 P.M. Roxie Roker, a legendary pace-setting actress, was half of the first TV interracial couple, among other firsts. Roker was also the mother of singer Lenny Kravitz, before succumbing to cancer at the age of 66. Advertisement. For many 70s and 80s children and adults, the name "Helen Willis" will always be remembered fondly.
Early life. Roker was born in the borough of Queens, New York City, the son of Isabel, of Jamaican descent, and Albert Lincoln Roker Sr., a bus driver of Bahamian descent. He initially wanted to be a cartoonist. He was raised Catholic, his mother's faith, and graduated from Xavier High School in Manhattan. He attended the State University of New York at Oswego where he received a B.A. in ...
31 de oct. de 2022 · Sy Kravitz Was a Very Strict Father. In his biography "Love Rules," Lenny revealed that as a child, he was afraid of his father. Sy was a kind man, but when raising his son, he was what the musician described as 'hardcore.'. Perhaps due to his military background, Sy was strict and not very communicative, and it was to Roxie Lenny clung to for ...
