See Denise from “The Cosby Show” at age 54
LISA BONET ALSO PLAYED A CHARACTER IN THE COLLEGE SPINOFF, ANOTHER WORLD.
At age 16, Lisa Bonet became Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show, then went to college in the spin-off of the hit young adult-focused sitcom, A Different World. She was famously fired from both shows – the latter after her real-life pregnancy and the former after a confrontation with star and co-creator, Bill Cosby.
However, Bonet’s time in the public eye was not over after that. Married to a famous rock star, Lenny Kravitz, she continued to act and would continue to see her divorce and remarriage make headlines, as well as one of her children become a star in her own right. Keep reading to find out where Bonet is now, at age 54.
She was cut from A Different World after she became pregnant.
Lisa Bonet and Zoe Kravitz in 1989
Bonet left The Cosby Show midway through its run to star in the spin-off A Different World, about Denise’s experience attending a historically black college. But after she announced that she was expecting a child (daughter Zoë Kravitz was born in 1988) in the summer between the first and second seasons, she was written off the show because producers decided that they did not want the plot to focus on a pregnant university. pupil.
Bonet returned to the cast of The Cosby Show but was dropped in 1991 over what were said at the time to be “creative differences”. However, in his 2020 memoir Let Love Rule, as reported by The List, her ex-husband, Lenny Kravitz, instead blamed the “strained” and “irreconcilable” relationship. ” by the actor with Cosby.
She changed her name to Lilakoi Moon and moved to the mountains.
Lisa Bonet in 2003
In 1993, Bonet legally changed her name to Lilakoi Moon to protect her privacy, according to the Orlando Sentinel, although years later she described it as a decision that “honored [her] personal life” outside of acting. She also moved to a farm in the mountains of Southern California, where she lived a private life for decades with her family and many animals, including wolf hybrids and donkeys.
“I’m a shy person. I don’t know if my DNA is something I want to share with the world,” she told People in 2008.
But she also continued to act.
After leaving The Cosby Show, Bonet continued acting, but struggled to find strong roles for a while, appearing in several television series in the mid-90s. In 1998, she appeared in currently in a supporting role as Will Smith’s girlfriend in the conspiracy thriller Enemy of the State, but her turn as one of John Cusack’s character’s ex-girlfriends in the hit 2000 romantic comedy High Fidelity will become one of hers. her most iconic roles — and led to a bit of strange trouble in Hollywood when her daughter Zoë was cast as the lead in a TV remake of the film two decades later.
In recent years, Bonet has appeared in the television series Life on Mars and The Red Road (starring future husband Jason Momoa) and guest-starred in episodes of Drunk History, New Girl, Girls and Ray Donovan.