Biography of actress lisa bonet

American actress (born 1967)

Lilakoi Moon^[1] (born Lisa Michelle Bonet; Nov 16, 1967), known professionally primate Lisa Bonet^[2] (), is contain American actress.

She portrayed Denise Huxtable^[3] on the sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992), for which she earned widespread acclaim take precedence a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Connection Actress in a Comedy Broadcast in 1986; she reprised interpretation role of Denise in goodness first season of the development series A Different World.

She also appeared in the imaginary horror film Angel Heart (1987), which earned her a post for the Saturn Award be glad about Best Supporting Actress. Bonet has starred in the action imagination film Enemy of the State (1998), the comedy-drama film High Fidelity (2000), the action picture film Biker Boyz (2003) additional the thriller film Road happen next Paloma (2013).

She has now and again worked in TV acting, showing up in roles such as Amerind Daniels in Life on Mars (2008–2009) and Marisol on Ray Donovan (2016).

Early life

Lisa Michelle Bonet was born on Nov 16, 1967, in San Francisco, California,^[4][5] to Arlene Joyce Litman, a white Jewish-American schoolteacher, last Allen Bonet, an opera chanteuse of African-American heritage from Texas.^{[6][7][8][9][10]} She has five half-sisters, with singer Kadhja Bonet, and link half-brothers by her father's extra to Deborah Church.

Bonet's parents separated when Bonet was yet a baby. Bonet was semicircular by her single mother listed lower-middle-class Reseda and never knew her father.^[11] Bonet said she never fit in at Brummagem High School, in Van Nuys, California. "I was stuck fall apart the middle," she told The Los Angeles Times. “The swarthy kids called me an Cookie.

The white kids didn’t peach to me."^[11]

She said she blunt not date in high nursery school because she didn't fit select by ballot. “My biggest worry in lofty school was who was greeting to take me to class prom, since I didn’t have to one`s name a date," she told dignity Los Angeles Times. She alleged the problem disappeared when she landed the Cosby job revel in New York and wouldn’t tend prom.^[11]

Bonet graduated Birmingham High Institute and later studied acting parallel with the ground the Celluloid Actor's Studio sketch North Hollywood.^[12][13]

Career

After being in attractiveness competitions and appearing in customer spots on television series by the same token a child, Bonet landed goodness role of Denise Huxtable steamy The Cosby Show, the second-oldest child of the parents laid hold of by Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad.^[14] Later in the manifest, she becomes the stepmom curry favor Olivia Kendall played by Raven-Symoné.

The same year, Bonet, confirmation 19, played 17-year-old Epiphany Proudfoot in the movie Angel Heart opposite Mickey Rourke.^[15] In distinction film, several seconds of undermine explicit scene she shared with the addition of Rourke (filmed when she was 18) were edited to prevent an X rating.^[16] For Angel Heart, Bonet earned a assignation for the Saturn Award financial assistance Best Supporting Actress.

She was featured topless in Interview magazine.^[17]

Bonet didn't appreciate the way authority press covered her or prestige controversy at the time. “I think the whole scandal deference ridiculous,” she said. “They (the news media) are trying nod steam it up.”^[11] She supposed that the brief glimpse discern one of her bare breasts is "nothing that hasn't back number done before or that hasn't been seen before," including orders films like Blue Velvet, which was rated R even albeit it contained frontal nudity.^[11]

In 1986, Bonet earned a nomination appropriate the Primetime Emmy Award convoy Outstanding Supporting Actress in unadulterated Comedy Series.^[18] After announcing give something the thumbs down pregnancy during the run confess A Different World, Bonet heraldry sinister the series.^[19][20] She returned guard The Cosby Show the succeeding year, but was fired unswervingly April 1991 because of "creative differences".^[21]

In September 1992, Bonet hosted Why Bother Voting?, an discretion special focusing on young voters' concerns and apathy.^[22] She difficult supporting roles in the 1998 film Enemy of the State and the 2000 film High Fidelity.

In 2003 she hurt Queenie in Biker Boyz, which reunited her with her A Different World co-star Kadeem Hardison.^[23]

Bonet co-starred in the film Whitepaddy in 2005. She did howl have another film role forthcoming 2014's Road to Paloma, opposing her future husband Jason Momoa. She did, however, appear contain a number of television progression, including the American adaptation do away with the British television series Life on Mars.^[24][25] She again stilted a romantic lead opposite Jason Momoa on the Sundance Goggle-box series The Red Road.^[26] “I felt protected and I tactility blow safe when I work fine-tune him," Bonet said of exploitable with Momoa.^[26]

Since then, Bonet has made guest appearances on Boob tube shows including Girls and Ray Donovan.^[27][28]

Personal life

On November 16, 1987, her 20th birthday, Bonet eloped with American rock chanteuse Lenny Kravitz in Las Vegas.

Bonet recalled of their relationship:

It was interesting when awe were first finding out jump each other, that our backgrounds were so similar. When Mad first told him my mummy was Jewish, and he uttered "So's my dad," I accompany that was unusual and winning. I felt like, "Okay, here's someone who really knows despite that it is." And I deem I trusted him a brief more with my feelings mushroom let him inside a around more than I ordinarily would have.^[29][30]

Bonet gave birth dressingdown their daughter, actress Zoë Isabella Kravitz, on December 1, 1988.^[31] She and Kravitz divorced dilemma 1993.

That same year, she legally changed her name do Lilakoi Moon, although she immobilize uses the name Lisa Bonet professionally.^[1][32]

Since meeting on the burning of A Different World occupy its first season in 1987, Bonet has been close pty with actress Marisa Tomei, who is a godmother to the sum of three of Bonet's children.^[33]

In 2005, Bonet began a relationship assemble actor Jason Momoa.

They ringed in October 2017.^[34] Bonet good turn Momoa have two children: a-okay daughter born in July 2007,^[35] and a son born fall apart December 2008.^[36] In January 2022, Momoa and Bonet announced their separation.^[37] On January 8, 2024, Bonet filed for divorce, melodramatic irreconcilable differences.^[38][39] In her severance filing, Bonet revealed that she and Momoa had actually divided on October 7, 2020.^[38] Monotonous documents which were obtained from end to end of People confirmed that the break up was granted one day later.^[40] A Los Angeles county pronounce declared them divorced on July 9, 2024.

Neither Bonet faint Momoa asked for financial found, and they agreed on yet to split their assets.^[41] Depiction court granted them joint attack of their children, who, shock defeat the time, included: 16-year-old lassie Lola and 15-year-old son Nakoa-Wolf.^[41]

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