Roxie Roker
Birth Name:
Roxie Albertha Roker
Birth Place:
Miami, Florida, United States
Profession
Actress
Fast Facts
- Actively involved with the Interagency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect, which earned her two citations from the Los Angeles City Council for her work
- Won an Obie Award in 1970 and was a 1974 Tony nominee for her role as Mattie Williams in the play "The River Niger․"
- Studied at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, England
- Mother of rock musician Lenny Kravitz and cousin of TV personality Al Roker
- Passed away from breast cancer at the age of 66 in 1995
- While trying to find acting jobs in the 1960s, she held a secretarial job at NBS's New York City office
- Best known for her role as Helen Willis on "The Jeffersons," in which she was part of the first interracial married couple on primetime TV