Roxie Roker

Acting

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.

Filmography 19

Movies (7)

Cosmic Slop
1994
(segment 'Space Traders')
The Day My Kid Went Punk
1987
Phyllis Brooks
Amazon Women on the Moon
1987
Female Republican (segment "Blacks Without Soul")
Making of a Male Model
1983
Madge Davis
The Bermuda Triangle
1979
Bohamiar Radio Operator
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
1977
Mrs. Peoples
Claudine
1974
Mrs. Winston

Shows (12)

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
1992
Mrs. Russell
A Different World
1987
Dean Barksdale
227
1985
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Jennifer Bryce
Punky Brewster
1984
Judge J.F. Taylor
Cagney & Lacey
1982
$weepstake$
1979
Margaret
Roots
1977
Malizy
The Jeffersons
1975
Helen Woodroow Willis
Kojak
1973
Carol Lessonbee
All in the Family
1971
Helen Willis
Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant
1968
Host