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Roxie Roker is a Actor American born on 28 august 1929 at Miami (USA)

Roxie Roker

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Birth name Roxie Albertha Roker
Nationality USA
Birth 28 august 1929 at Miami (USA)
Death 2 december 1995 (at 66 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Roxie Albertha Roker (August 28, 1929 – December 2, 1995) was an American actress, best known for her role as Helen Willis on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons (1975–85), half of the first interracial couple to be shown on regular prime time television.

Biography

Elle est connue en particulier pour son rôle d'Helen Willis dans la série The Jeffersons, l'un des premiers couples interraciaux apparaissant régulièrement en première partie de soirée à la télévision américaine, entre 1975 et 1985.

Née à Miami, Roxie Roker a grandi à New York, dans le quartier de Brooklyn. Elle fit ses études à l'Université d'Howard où elle prit des cours d'art dramatique. Elle commença sa carrière artistique professionnelle avec le Negro Ensemble Company et devint une comédienne réputée. Elle gagna un Obie Award en 1973 et fut nominée pour un Tony Awards pour son interprétation de Mattie Williams dans la pièce The River Niger.

Roxie Roker fut également reporter sur WNEW-TV à New York dans les années 1970.

Elle apparut dans de nombreux rôles sur les chaînes de télévision américaines des années 1970 aux années 1990, et notamment dans les séries suivantes: Punky Brewster, Cooper et nous (Hangin' with Mr. Cooper), Campus Show (A Different World), Arabesque (Murder, She Wrote), La croisière s'amuse, 227 et Beat The Clock . Elle joua également un petit rôle dans la série télé Racines et dans le film Claudine.

Roxie Roker fut également le défenseur des enfants. Elle fut citée par la ville de Los Angeles pour son travail sur ce sujet.

Mariée de 1962 à 1985 au producteur de télévision Sy Kravitz, elle est la mère du chanteur et musicien Lenny Kravitz.

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Filmography of Roxie Roker (3 films)

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Actress

Making of a Male Model, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Joan Collins, Jon-Erik Hexum, Arte Johnson, Kevin McCarthy, Roxie Roker, Ted McGinley
Rating59% 2.994682.994682.994682.994682.99468
Kay Dillon (Joan Collins), a successful modeling agent, meets the young and handsome ranch hand Tyler Burnett (Jon-Erik Hexum) in Nevada, while attending an outdoor shoot. She notices his good looks and invites him to move to New York and start working as a model. Burnett, who has just been dumped by his girlfriend, accepts the invitation and goes to New York, where he shares an apartment with another model, Chuck Lanyard. Lanyard is addicted to alcohol and drugs; he is 35 years old, and therefore too old to be successful in the business. Burnett, who does not understand Lanyard's problems at first, is now being turned into one of America's best looking models by his agent and soon wins his first professional assignment.
Roots (TV miniseries), 9h30
Directed by Gilbert Moses, Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, David Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors John Amos, Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Georg Stanford Brown, Leslie Uggams
Rating83% 4.198654.198654.198654.198654.19865
In The Gambia, West Africa, in 1750 Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte (Thalmus Rasulala), a Mandinka warrior, and his wife, Binta (Cicely Tyson). When Kunta (LeVar Burton) reaches the age of 15, he and a group of other adolescent boys take part in tribal manhood training, ending with a ceremony, after which they become recognized as men and Mandinka warriors. While trying to carry out a task to catch a bird and take it home unharmed, Kunta sees white men carrying firearms, along with their black collaborators. Later, while fetching wood outside his village to make a drum for his younger brother, Kunta is captured by black collaborators under the direction of white men. He is then sold to a slave trader and placed aboard a ship under the command of Capt. Thomas Davies (Edward Asner) for a three-month journey to Colonial America. During the voyage a group of rebels among the human cargo try but fail to stage a mutiny and to take over the ship.
Claudine
Claudine (1974)
, 1h32
Directed by John Berry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Adam Wade, Roxie Roker, David Krüger
Roles M Winston
Rating72% 3.6446353.6446353.6446353.6446353.644635
The film tells the story of Claudine Price (Diahann Carroll), a single Black Harlem mother, living on welfare with six children, who finds love with a garbage collector, Rupert Marshall (James Earl Jones), whom she calls "Roop". The pair's relationship becomes complicated because of a number of factors. Among these are that the couple do not want to marry because they would not be able to support the children without welfare, and that the kids themselves, particularly eldest son Charles (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs), are apprehensive of Rupert, and believe that he will leave their mother just like her previous husbands had.