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Lisa Michelle Bonet was born on November 16, 1967, in San Francisco, California, [4] [5] to Arlene Joyce Litman, a white Jewish-American schoolteacher, and Allen Bonet, an opera singer of African-American heritage from Texas.
Bonet grew up in Los Angeles, California, as the middle child of seven siblings and studied classical music from an early age, playing the violin. [2] Her father, Allen Bonet, was an opera singer and her mother also a musician. [3] She taught herself guitar and other instruments. [2] The actress Lisa Bonet is her half-sister. [4] [5]
A Different World is an American sitcom television series and a spin-off of The Cosby Show.It aired for six seasons on NBC from September 24, 1987, to July 9, 1993. [1] The series originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional historically black college in Virginia.
Bonet, now 57, only starred in the first season, ... Darryl M. Bell, Lisa Bonet, Dawnn Lewis, Kadeem Hardison, Jasmine Guy, Debbie Allen, Cree Summer and Sinbad of "A Different World."
Lisa Bonet has officially filed for divorce from Jason Momoa nearly two years after the estranged duo announced their separation.. Bonet, 56, listed the couple’s date of separation as October 7 ...
Lenny and ex-wife Lisa Bonet welcomed their only child together in December 1988. The couple, who married one year earlier, ultimately split in 1993 but remained committed to coparenting Zoë ...
Allen created an entirely new character, Freddie Brooks (Cree Summer), to replace Bonet as the show's "earthy, bohemian" character. [ 48 ] [ 60 ] In the wake of Bonet's departure, Tomei was also fired and her character written out, despite Allen's original intentions to retain "the dynamic of having a white girl in a black college". [ 12 ]
Jasmine Chanel Guy [2] (born March 10, 1962) [3] [4] is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director. She portrayed Dina in the 1988 film School Daze and Whitley Gilbert-Wayne on the NBC The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World, which originally ran from 1987 to 1993.