Roxie Roker
Acting • Born 1929-08-28 – Died 1995-12-02
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 credits
The Day My Kid Went Punk
Movie • 1987
Phyllis Brooks
Making of a Male Model
Movie • 1983
Madge Davis
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
Movie • 1977
Mrs. Peoples
Cosmic Slop
Movie • 1994
(segment 'Space Traders')
Claudine
Movie • 1974
Mrs. Winston
Amazon Women on the Moon
Movie • 1987
Female Republican (segment "Blacks Without Soul")
The Bermuda Triangle
Movie • 1979
Bohamiar Radio Operator
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Jennifer Bryce
All in the Family
TV • 1971
Helen Willis
227
TV • 1985
The Jeffersons
TV • 1975
Helen Woodroow Willis
Punky Brewster
TV • 1984
Judge J.F. Taylor
Kojak
TV • 1973
Carol Lessonbee
Cagney & Lacey
TV • 1982
A Different World
TV • 1987
Dean Barksdale
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
TV • 1992
Mrs. Russell
$weepstake$
TV • 1979
Margaret
Roots
TV • 1977
Malizy
Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant
TV • 1968
Host