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The 'Cosby Show' cast: Where are they now?
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The 'Cosby Show' cast: Where are they now?

  • Sep 4, 2018
  • Sep 4, 2018
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Here's what Geoffrey Owens, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Lisa Bonet and more are doing now.

Geoffrey Owens

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Actor Geoffrey Owens made headlines after he was spotted working at a New Jersey Trader Joe's. Owens, famous for playing Elvin Tibideaux, Cliff Huxtable's son-in-law on "The Cosby Show," is still a working actor and teacher but got a job at the grocery store to make ends meet. After some people judged him for his situation online, other celebrities and artists came to his defense, praising his hustle.

"This business of my being this Cosby guy who got shamed for working at Trader Joe's, that's going to pass," Owens told "Good Morning America." "But I hope what doesn't pass is this idea that people are now thinking, this re-thinking of what it means to work, the honor of the working person and the dignity of work."

Owens isn't the only former "Cosby Show" star to stay in show business. So what are his co-stars doing now?

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played son Theodore "Theo" Huxtable, is also still a working actor. After the "Cosby Show" wrapped, he made several guest appearances on TV shows as well as had starring or recurring roles in shows such as "Reed Between the Lines," "American Crime Story," "Suits" and "Major Crimes."

Also a musician, Warner has released two solo albums and won a Grammy in 2015 for Best Traditional R&B Performance for appearing on a track with Robert Glasper Experiment. 

Sabrina Le Beauf

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Yale-trained theater actress Sabrina Le Beauf played eldest Huxtable daughter Sondra despite being only 10 years younger than Phylicia Rashad, who portrayed her mother, Clair. After the show wrapped in 1992, she made a few TV appearances but focused more on theater as well as starting an interior design business and working as an innkeeper.

Lisa Bonet

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Lisa Bonet, who played daughter Denise, was given her own spinoff show "A Different World." But Bonet was fired from her own show in 1991 for "creative differences" after she got pregnant in real life. The spinoff continued without her character.

Bonet has continued to appear in films and TV shows, and her oldest daughter Zoe Kravitz has also embarked on an acting career. She also has two children with her husband, "Aquaman" star Jason Momoa, and they live in Southern California.

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The Huxtable's fourth child, Vanessa, was played by Tempestt Bledsoe. Bledsoe continued to act, going on to host her own daytime talk show as well as a home makeover show. She appeared on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club and starred in the 2013 NBC sitcom "Guys with Kids."

For more than 25 years, Bledsoe has been dating fellow actor Darryl M. Bell, who she met on the set of the "Cosby" spinoff "A Different World."

Keshia Knight Pulliam

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Keshia Knight Pulliam played youngest daughter Rudy from ages 5 to 13 when the show ended. She went on to appear in movies and TV shows like "House of Payne," "Beauty Shop" and "Madea Goes to Jail" as well as reality shows like "Fear Factor," "Celebrity Apprentice" and "Celebrity Big Brother."

Pulliam notably spoke out in support of Bill Cosby and accompanied him to the first day of his sexual assault trial in 2017.

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Raven-Symone joined the cast of "The Cosby Show" in season six as Cliff Huxtable's step-granddaughter Olivia. She continued to work as a child star on the TV show "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper" before landing her own Disney Channel show, "That's So Raven." She went on to appear in movies from "Dr. Doolittle" to "The Cheetah Girls" and became a host on the talk show "The View" before leaving to star in a new "That's So Raven" spinoff "Raven's Home."

Phylicia Rashad

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After playing Clair Huxtable on the "Cosby Show," Phylicia Rashad continued to work with Bill Cosby on his next sitcom "Cosby" until 2000. She became the first African-American actress to win a Best Actress Tony award in 2004 for her work in "A Raisin in the Sun." She recently appeared on the TV show "Empire" and in Drake's "In My Feelings" music video. She's set to star in "Creed II" alongside Michael B. Jordan.

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