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.

Roxie Roker is the mother of rock musician Lenny Kravitz and paternal grandmother of actress Zoë Kravitz.

Roxie Roker graduated from Howard University, where she was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and married television producer Sy Kravitz in 1962.

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

Roxie Roker was also 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 cause of death: What did Lenny Kravitz’s mother Roxie Roker died of?

Roxie Roker portrayed Helen Willis on The Jeffersons, breaking social barriers by becoming one half of the first Caucasian-African-American married couple as regular cast member on prime-time TV.

Roxie Roker died on December 2, 1995 of breast cancer at the age of 66.