Roxie Roker Biography

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