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| Tempestt Bledsoe | |
| Born | August 1, 1973 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1980s – present |
Tempestt Bledsoe (born August 1, 1973 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress best known for her role as Bill Cosby's daughter and fourth child, Vanessa Huxtable, on the popular 1984-1992 sitcom The Cosby Show.
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Career
In the mid-1990s, Tempestt enjoyed a year long run as the host of her own daytime talk show, The Tempestt Bledsoe Show, produced by Columbia-Tristar and Dick Clark. In 2006, she participated in the third season of Celebrity Fit Club, and lost 19 pounds (8.6 kg). She made a brief appearance in the sitcom The Parkers, and has been featured in the recurring role of a single mother on the ABC show The Practice, the Lifetime show Strong Medicine, and South Of Nowhere. Her most recent credits include starring as Nina in the Oxygen Channel's original television movie, "Husband For Hire", and Abby in the third season of Disney Channel's animated series "The Replacements".
Bledsoe is mentioned in Stephen Levitt's book Freakonomics; a mother named her child Temptress after Bledsoe, having mistaken her name.
Personal life
In addition to her acting career, she received a degree in finance from New York University and enjoys music. She is married to actor Darryl M. Bell, who co-starred in the NBC TV comedy A Different World. The couple will appear together in the Fox Reality Channel series Househusbands of Hollywood, which is scheduled to debut August 2009.[1]
External links
- Tempestt Bledsoe at the Internet Movie Database
- Tempestt Bledsoe at Allmovie
- Tempestt Bledsoe at TV.com
References
- ^ The Obenson Report, 12/21/2008 (accessed 2/16/2009)
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