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Lisa Bonet
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Born: Nov 16, 1967
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Lisa Bonet was born in San Francisco but has lived most of her life
in New York and Los Angeles, where she attended Reseda High School
and Celluloid Actor's Studio. Lisa is the child of a Jewish mother
and a black father, who was a music teacher. Her parents divorced
when she was young and she began acting in commercials at the age
of 11. At age 16 she landed the role of Denise Huxtable in the hit
comedy series "The Cosby Show." The show made her a popular
actress. In the mid-'80s, she met 'Lenny Kravitz' (qv) at a New
Edition concert in Los Angeles. At the time, Lenny was a
struggling, unknown musician who went by the name Romeo Blue. It
wasn't long after they started dating when Lisa and Lenny's
relationship was all over the tabloids. The two lovers were said to
be soulmates, as they both shared a neo-hippie persona and
bi-racial background (Lenny is also half-black, half-Jewish). In
1987, Lisa and Lenny got married (they went to Las Vegas and
eloped) and they had a daughter named Zoe in 1988. By 1989, Lenny
had landed a record deal and recorded his first album, "Let Love
Rule." Lisa co-wrote a couple of songs on the album and she was
said to be the inspiration for most of the album. Lisa even
directed Lenny's first video for "Let Love Rule." But Lisa and
Lenny's relationship was full of problems from the start, including
intense scrutiny from the media and Lenny's reported infidelities.
It was around this time that Lisa made a deliberate attempt to shed
her "goody-two-shoes" Cosby daughter image by making the
controversial movie "Angel Heart," where she had racy nude and sex
scenes. The backlash from making "Angel Heart" is rumored to have
prompted Lisa's exit from "The Cosby Show." But with Bill Cosby's
help, Lisa landed on another comedy series, "A Different World," in
which she st...[MORE]
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