
August 28, 1929 · 96 years old
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.

Wealthy African American dry cleaner George Jefferson, his wife Louise, and son Lionel move into a luxury apartment building and develop occasionally fractious relations with other tenants, including their sassy maid Florence.

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.