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Roxie Albertha Roker (August 28, 1929 – December 2, 1995) was an American actress. She was best known for her portrayal of Helen Willis on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons . In 1973, she performed as Mattie Williams in the Broadway play The River Niger , and was nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play at the 28th Tony Awards .
Roxie Roker and Sy Kravitz married in 1962 and welcomed their only child together, Lenny, two years later. Sy Kravitz's parents did not approve of their interracial marriage and did not attend the ...
Kravitz was born on May 26, 1964, in New York City, [7] the only child of NBC television news producer Sy Kravitz (1924–2005) and actress Roxie Roker (1929–1995). [8] His mother came from a Christian family that was of African-American and Bahamian descent.
Lenny Kravitz at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards in New York. The rocker, who wrote in his 2020 memoir Let Love Rule that he “was a mama’s boy,” brought Roker as his date to the 1993 MTV ...
The four-time Grammy The post Lenny Kravitz tapped for Oscars ‘In Memoriam’ segment appeared first on TheGrio. ... His mother was the late Roxie Roker, who starred in the long-running ...
Kravitz wrote the song as a tribute to Cash as the latter helped him pass through one of the darkest moments of his life. Johnny Cash and his wife, June, were the first persons whom Kravitz saw after learning that his mother, actress Roxie Roker , had died from breast cancer in 1995. [ 2 ]
The genes are strong in the Kravitz family. Lenny Kravitz says he sees a lot of his mother, late “The Jeffersons” star Roxie Roker, in his own daughter, actor Zoë Kravitz.
Langston Fishburne – actor, son of Laurence Fishburne "King" Eric Gibson – entrepreneur and musician; semi-official Ambassador of Bahamian Goodwill; Lenny Kravitz – actor, multi-instrumentalist, music arranger, record producer and rock singer-songwriter; son of Roxie Roker; Zoë Kravitz – actress and musician; daughter of Lenny Kravitz