Roxie Roker

Born: 1929-08-28

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.


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Amazon Women on the Moon

as Female Republican
Released: 1987-09-18

Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with...

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Cosmic Slop

as (segment 'Space Traders')
Released: 1994-11-08

In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, this bizarre, thought-provoking trilogy addresses the...

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Claudine

as Mrs. Winston
Released: 1974-04-22

Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs...

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Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

as Mrs. Peoples
Released: 1977-09-12

A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of...

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Making of a Male Model

as Madge Davis
Released: 1983-10-09

Kay Dillon, a successful modeling agent, meets the young and handsome ranch hand Tyler Burnett...

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The Day My Kid Went Punk

as Phyllis Brooks
Released: 1987-10-23

A nerdy teen makes himself over as a punk rocker, embarrassing his conservative parents in the...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Jennifer Bryce
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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A Different World

as Dean Barksdale
First aired: 1987-09-24

A Different World is an American television sitcom which aired for six seasons on NBC. It is a...

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All in the Family

as Helen Willis
First aired: 1971-01-12

Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important...

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Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

as Mrs. Russell
First aired: 1992-09-22

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from 1992...

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227

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-09-14

A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington,...

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Cagney & Lacey

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-03-25

Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing...

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The Jeffersons

as Helen Woodroow Willis
First aired: 1975-01-18

Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as...

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Punky Brewster

as Judge J.F. Taylor
First aired: 1984-09-16

An abandoned waif and her dog are taken in by a cranky apartment manager who becomes her...

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Kojak

as Carol Lessonbee
First aired: 1973-10-24

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New...

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