Celebrity Biographies
Roxie Rocker Biography
Date of Birth: | 1929, August 28 |
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Death date: | 1995, 12-2 and as the grandmother of an actress and singer Zoe Kravitz.
Early lifeRoxie Roker was born on August 28, 1929 in Miami, Florida, United States to Bessie Nee Mitchell (mother and Albert Roker (father). Her mother was from Georgia while her father, Albert, was a native of Andros, The Bahamas. He worked as a porter. Roker was raised in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Girl’s High School and later graduated from Howard University. She is a US national and belongs to a mixed ethnicity. Sy Kravitz was her ex-husbandRoxie Roker married her ex-spouse Sy Kravitz , in 1962. Sy was a well-known American filmmaker and a news producer for NBC . The couple never revealed when they first met and how it all started. Roxie Roker films the scene of the other women SOURCE: IMDBIn 1975, Roker played the character of Helen Willis on the CBS sitcom. The Jeffersons . Her other successful works include Roots, Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid, and Fantasy Island. Roxie then starred in the American made-for-television romantic drama film. She doing a male model , in 1983. The actress also starred in the American satirical comedy film Amazon Women on the Moon in 1987. Rosanna Arquette and Lana Clarkson were the other stars of the film. |