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Article: 'Biker Boyz's' Lisa Bonet talks about life
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- Baltimore Afro-American
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- February 14, 2003
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Williams, Kam
Baltimore Afro-American
02-14-2003
Lisa Michelle Bonet was born in San Francisco in 1967 to a Jewish mother
and an African-American father, who separated while she was still young.
She was then raised in Los Angeles, where her early interest in acting led
to commercial work by the age of 11 and to the defining role of Denise
Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" at 16. In 1987, she married Lenny Kravitz,
then an aspiring musician, whose mom was Black and father Jewish,
ironically. Also that year, Bonet's career started to nosedive after she
was dumped by "The Cosby Show" for doing some ill- advised steamy scenes in
the movie, "Angel Heart."
Meanwhile, her husband's music was just about to ...