12 Facts About Roxie Roker

Roxie Roker was best known for her portrayal of Helen Willis on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons.

Roxie Roker's father, Albert Roker, was a porter and a native of Andros, the Bahamas.

Roxie Roker studied drama at Howard University, where she was a pupil of celebrated drama teachers Anne Cooke Reid and Owen Dodson.

Roxie Roker toured with the Howard Players for performances in Norway in 1949, a trip sponsored by the United States Department of State and supported by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Roxie Roker began her professional career with the Negro Ensemble Company and became a successful stage actress.

Roxie Roker won an Obie Award in 1974 and was nominated for a Tony Award for her portrayal of Mattie Williams in The River Niger.

Roxie Roker was a reporter on WNEW-TV in New York in the 1970s and hosted a public affairs show for the station known as Inside Bed-Stuy, dealing with events in the Brooklyn neighborhood.

Roxie Roker appeared as a guest star on many other American television shows from the 1970s through the 1990s, including Stone in the River starring Hal Miller for NBC, Punky Brewster, Hangin' with Mr Cooper, A Different World, Murder, Roxie Roker Wrote, The Love Boat, $weepstake$, 227, Beat the Clock, Fantasy Island and ABC Afterschool Specials.

Roxie Roker had roles in the television miniseries Roots and in the movie Claudine.

Roxie Roker was a children's advocate who was cited by the city of Los Angeles for her community work.

Roxie Roker was married to television producer Sy Kravitz in 1962.

Roxie Roker died in Los Angeles, California, on December 2,1995, of breast cancer.