Lisa Michelle Bonet was born on November 16, 1967, in San
Francisco, California, and became involved in the entertainment
industry at an early age.
As a young girl, she started showing up at beauty competitions and
made guest appearances in television series as a child.
In 1984, Lisa Bonet was cast as Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show.
At the time, sitcoms were kind of dying out, but the successful The
Cosby Show helped revive the genre. It became the number-onerated show on television for five years in a row.
Lisa’s character, Denise, was the second-oldest child in the family,
and Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad played her parents. Despite her
lack of acting experience, Bill Cosby plucked Lisa to be part of
America’s most popular fictive family
Soon after the series launched, Lisa became known as TV’s hottest
newcomer. She was a teen idol, a young adult’s heartthrob, and a
fresh face everyone recognized.
But during her successful spell with The Cosby Show, Lisa raised
many eyebrows after posing twice in adult magazines. She also
starred in the controversial movie Angel Heart, a film that barely
escaped an X rating after a hot love scene between her and Mickey
Rourke.Lisa Bonet explains that it
was the birth of daughter Zoe
Kravitz that saved her life