Lisa Bonet portrayed Denise Huxtable on the sitcom The Cosby Show, for which she earned widespread acclaim and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1986; she reprised the role of Denise in the first season of the spinoff series A Different World.
23 Facts About Lisa Bonet
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Lisa Bonet appeared in the psychological horror film Angel Heart, which earned her a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Lisa Michelle Bonet was born on November 16,1967, in San Francisco, California, to Arlene Joyce Litman, a white Jewish-American schoolteacher, and Allen Bonet, an opera singer of African-American heritage from Texas.
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Lisa Bonet has five half-sisters, including singer Kadhja Bonet, and two half-brothers by her father's marriage to Deborah Church.
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Lisa Bonet was raised by her single mother in middle-class Reseda and never knew her father.
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Lisa Bonet said she never fit in at Birmingham High School, in Van Nuys, California.
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Lisa Bonet said she did not date in high school because she didn't fit in.
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Lisa Bonet said the problem disappeared when she landed the Cosby job in New York and wouldn't attend prom.
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Lisa Bonet graduated Birmingham High School and later studied acting at the Celluloid Actor's Studio in North Hollywood.
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Lisa Bonet didn't appreciate the way the press covered her or the controversy at the time.
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In 1986, Lisa Bonet earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Lisa Bonet returned to The Cosby Show the following year, but was fired in April 1991 because of "creative differences".
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Lisa Bonet had supporting roles in the 1998 film Enemy of the State and the 2000 film High Fidelity.
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Lisa Bonet did not have another film role until 2014's Road to Paloma, opposite her future husband Jason Momoa.
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Lisa Bonet did appear in a number of television series, including the American adaptation of the British television series Life on Mars.
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Lisa Bonet again played a romantic lead opposite Jason Momoa on the Sundance TV series The Red Road.
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Since then, Lisa Bonet has made guest appearances on TV shows including Girls and Ray Donovan.
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On November 16,1987, her 20th birthday, Lisa Bonet eloped with American rock singer Lenny Kravitz in Las Vegas.
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Lisa Bonet gave birth to their daughter, actress Zoe Isabella Kravitz, on December 1,1988.
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Since meeting on the set of A Different World in its first season in 1987, Lisa Bonet has been close friends with actress Marisa Tomei, who is a godmother to all three of Lisa Bonet's children.
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In 2005, Lisa Bonet began a relationship with actor Jason Momoa.
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Lisa Bonet and Momoa have two children: a daughter born in July 2007, and a son born in December 2008.
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On January 8,2024, Lisa Bonet filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.