#Vanessa Huxtablle

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Cockroach: Theo! Theo Theo?

Theo: In Here.

Cockroach: Don't do It! Stop!

Theo: What?

Cockroach: Don't shave your head. We're not in the video.

Theo: What?!

Cockroach: I've been calling, but it's been busy.

Theo: That was Vanessa. What's wrong?

Cockroach: I'm beat. I ran over here. Let's sit down.

This is terrible.

Theo: What happened?

Cockroach: I went down early, and I couldn't even get on the set.

Theo: You're kidding.

Cockroach: There were 200 guys already everyone had a shaved head.

Theo: Whoa!

Cockroach: They took the first 13 and sent the rest home. I told the assistant, "You said I was in." He gave me $50 for showing up.

Theo: Fifty bucks? That's great!

Cockroach: Yeah, but look at this.

 Theo: Cockroach girls going to love it when they see you like

Cockroach: that yeah you're right I don't know whyI got so freaked about it anyway you need, 

Vanessa: What are you doing? Cockroach(laughs)

[higherlearningtvshow]

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Who Played Son Theo on “The Cosby Show”, Dies at 54 After Drowning on Family Trip!

courtesy of People Magazine

The actor died while on a family trip, a source confirms to PEOPLE

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner has died at 54, PEOPLE confirms

According to a source, the actor was on a family trip

He was best known for playing Bill Cosby's son on The Cosby Show.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner has died. He was 54.

The actor was in Costa Rica on a family vacation and drowned while swimming, a source confirms to PEOPLE.

A rep for Warner did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Warner's career began with his role as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show.

The actor played the only son of Bill Cosby's character, Heathcliff Huxtable, in the sitcom from 1984 to 1992.

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In 2023, Warner told PEOPLE of the show, "I know I can speak for all the cast when I say The Cosby Show is something that we are all still very proud of."

Frank Carroll/NBCU Photo BankMalcolm-Jamal Warner as Theodore 'Theo' Huxtable, Lisa Bonet as Denise Huxtable, Phylicia Rashad as Clair Hanks Huxtable, Tempestt Bledsoe as Vanessa Huxtable, Keshia Knight Pulliam as Rudy Huxtable, Bill Cosby as Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable on 'The Cosby Show'More

"We share a unique experience that keeps us lovingly bonded no matter how much time goes between seeing or hearing from each other."

Warner did, of course, acknowledge how the show's legacy had changed given the allegations made against Cosby, 88, who was convicted of sexual assault in 2018 but later had the charge overturned in 2021, only for five more women to accuse him of sexual assault.

"Regardless of how some people may feel about the show now, I'm still proud of the legacy and having been a part of such an iconic show that had such a profound impact on — first and foremost, Black culture — but also American culture," Warner said.

Derek White/GettyMalcolm-Jamal Warner attends the 2nd Annual Living Legends Gala at InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta on September 30, 2023More

Following The Cosby Show, Warner went on to star in several other successful TV shows and movies.

He and Eddie Griffin led the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie from 1996 to 2000, and Warner was also well known for his role as Alex Reed on Reed Between the Lines, which he starred in alongside Tracee Ellis Ross from 2011 to 2015.

More recently, Warner had starred in Major Crimes as Chuck Cooper, as Julius Rowe in Suits and as AJ Austin in The Resident.

9-1-1 and Alert: Missing Persons Unit were his most recent credits.

His latest venture was a podcast, Not All Hood, that he launched with two others as a means of breaking down barriers to mental health in the Black community.

Last June, he launched the podcast with cohosts Weusi Baraka and Candace Kelley, and he told PEOPLE it was a space where he could be his “most vulnerable.”

“It's been an interesting experience for me, because it's a place where I feel safe enough to be able to be as vulnerable as I allow myself to be,” he said.

Disney/Mike TaingAngela Bassett and Malcolm-Jamal Warner on '9-1-1'

“When we talk about the Black community, we tend to speak of it as a monolith when the reality is there are so many different facets of the Black community, and we wanted to have a space where we can really explore, discuss, and acknowledge all of those different aspects," he said at the time.

Warner is survived by a wife and daughter, whose identities he opted to keep private.

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[myheromarveldemia]

I really, really wanna do a My Hero Academia-themed parody of that scene from The Cosby Show where Clair Huxtable chews out Vanessa for having “big fun,” and it’s most likely going to involve the Todoroki family.

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Black Femme Character Dependency Dark Skin Directory: V

V: The Characters

Valentina | Valerie Brown | Vanessa Damphousse | Vanessa Huxtable | Vanessa "Ness Johnson |  Vanessa Tempo | Vella Tartine | Velvet Smooth | Veronica Fisher | Veronica Henley/Eden | Violet Harper | Violet Todd | Viv Odusanya | Viva Bennett | Vivian Banks | Vivienne de Fer | Vixen | Voya Thomas

V: The Entertainers

Vanessa Bell Calloway | Vanessa Lee Chester | Vanessa Gyimah | Vanessa Nakat | Vanesu Samunyai (Kyo Ra) | Vanessa Estelle Williams | Vaneza Oliveira | Veronica S. Taylor | Viola Davis | Vivica Ifeoma  

[mias-playground]

Actress Tempestt Bledsoe. She is best known for her childhood role as Vanessa Huxtable, the fourth child of Cliff and Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.

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Tempestt Bledsoe (August 1, 1973) is an actress. She is known for her childhood role as Vanessa Huxtable, on The Cosby Show. It was announced that she would be the host of Clean House on the Style Network. She was one of the stars of Guys with Kids.

She made a one-time appearance as Vanessa on A Different World. She played the role of Grace Wheeler in The Gift Of Amazing Grace. She hosted a daytime talk show, The Tempestt Bledsoe Show. She made a brief appearance in the sitcom The Parkers and has been featured in the recurring role of a single mother on The Practice. She appeared in Strong Medicine, and South of Nowhere. Her most recent credits include Husband for Hire, Raising the Bar, and The Replacements. She appeared on Celebrity Fit Club. She hosted Clean House. She was heard as the voice of Sheriff Hooper in the Laika animated film ParaNorman. She appeared in the Instant Mom episode “Not Your Mother’s Day” in which she reprised her role as Vanessa Huxtable. She appeared in Family Reunion. She earned a BS in Finance from New York University. Since 1993 she has been in a relationship with actor Darryl M. Bell. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Bill Cosby, left, as Cliff Huxtable and Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” in 1984. Photograph: R.M. Lewis Jr/NBCUniversal/Getty Images

The Magic of Theo!

As Theo Huxtable On “The Cosby Show,” Malcolm-Jamal Warner Embodied The Joy of Black Boyhood.

— Tuesday 22 July 2025 | The Washington Post | Column By Robin Givhan

Theo Huxtable Has Died.

While Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who portrayed him on “The Cosby Show,” went on to many other roles and proved himself to be a versatile performer, he will forever be remembered as Theo. Bright-eyed and earnest. Always reaching for adulthood when he was still comically, sweetly immature. Driven by his passions and constantly stumbling over his own insecurities.

Warner, 54, died in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica. His Theodore Huxtable was the only son in an upper-middle-class family composed of two professional parents — the father, Cliff, a doctor and the mother, Clair, a lawyer. He was surrounded by three bright and charismatic sisters at home and was the kid brother to an older sister who was off at college, Princeton University to be precise. They were a striving and achieving family that was also Black. They did not happen to be Black, as if they were a television family that seemed to have sprouted from a White boardroom consensus, without history or with only a blurry whitewashed cultural foundation. This family listened to jazz. The work of Black artists hung in their home. The Huxtable parents had attended Hillman College, a fictional historically Black institution. Their references and sensibility were Black. The lens through which they were seen may have been rose-colored, but the view was neither warped nor distorted.

Theo was a Black child whom audiences watched move through adolescence to become a Black young man. He got to be those things joyfully. In this television version of life, Theo was allowed to make mistakes and to recover from them without falling into great peril. He rebelled against his parents’ rules; he had a knucklehead best friend; he was infatuated with girls; he struggled in school; and he overcame his hurdles.

When the show first aired on network television from 1984 to 1992, it was hailed as groundbreaking because of its depiction of a Black family, a fact that serves as a reminder of how narrowly popular culture once portrayed Black people. And the degree to which the memory of Theo endures as a rare window into the sweetness of Black boyhood is a reminder of how diligent the culture must be to keep from falling back into its narrow ways.

Theo features prominently in the first episode of “The Cosby Show.” He came home with a report card filled with D’s, and his father sat him down and demanded to know how he expected to get into college with such terrible grades. Theo explained that he didn’t plan to go to college. He just wanted to graduate high school and get a job like “regular people,” by which he meant working as a bus driver or at a gas station.

Left: From left, Tempestt Bledsoe as Vanessa, Warner as Theo and Keshia Knight Pulliam as Rudy. Right: Warner in Season 1 of “The Cosby Show.” Photographs: NBCUniversal/Getty Images

After this vision for his life displeased his father, Theo delivered a poignant speech about how he would love his father just as much if he weren’t a doctor. So why can’t his father love him for who he is and not demand that he be college-obsessed? Perhaps he was born to just live a 9-to-5 life, Theo said, to applause from the studio audience.

Then his father stood up and roared, “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my life!” Why? Not because Theo wanted a respectable blue-collar job but because he was “afraid to try” to reach his full potential.

Cliff told Theo to try his best in school because “I said so. I am your father. I brought you in this world, and I’ll take you out.” And in a time before someone would raise a red flag about the inappropriateness of even jokingly threatening a child or would fret about the dangers of overly ambitious expectations, the audience applauded even louder. Then Cliff told his son how much he loved him.

Theo smiled. The smile was everything. It was trust. It was determination. It was vulnerability. This was the magic of Theo.

The relationship between father and son was, in many ways, at the heart of the show. The series may have carried Bill Cosby’s imprimatur, and its legacy was certainly tainted by his fall from grace. But the show didn’t belong to Cosby alone. It was as much about the children as it was the parents, and of all the children, it was a story about Theo. About navigating boyhood with a sense of independence and safety. Theo, dark-skinned with round cheeks, with a slim, not-quite-angular frame, had inviting good looks but also seemed familiar. He didn’t have the pinup cuteness of a handpicked boy band soloist. He was not beefy or exceedingly athletic. But neither was he a cartoonish nerd or an anxiety-riddled savant.

Theo, audiences would later learn, had dyslexia. He was an average kid who learned to try his best. He was a loyal brother who argued with his sisters but also believed in them. It’s that belief that sparked the story of the Gordon Gartrell shirt. Theo purchased the gold-and-black silk shirt by the fictional designer to impress a girl. And when his parents discovered that he had paid $95 for it, they announced that it must be returned. His father gave him $30 to buy a replacement. His sister Denise convinced him that she could make a knockoff for that price. And Theo gambled on his sister’s sewing skills.

Warner and Phylicia Rashad in “The Cosby Show.” Everett Collection

The result was, of course, a disaster. The proportions were wrong; the sleeves were uneven; the collar was askew. But it was Theo’s body language as he wore Denise’s failure that drew the belly laughs. With his arms outstretched, he was a fashion martyr, duped by all the marketing and smoke and mirrors of designer fashion, misled by his sister’s confidence, panicked by his desire to make a good impression on his date. The argument about the overpriced shirt was the kind of seed that sparked so many family conversations on “The Cosby Show.” It was a way to teach a lesson about value and trust. And it revealed the extraordinary comedic timing of Warner, who played Theo with a charismatic mix of bravado, innocence and hysteria. He was every teenager who has ever wanted to impress someone with what they have rather than who they are.

And, at the end of it all, the audience learned that his father never returned the original shirt. It was in his parents’ bedroom. His parents indulged his desire and allowed him to keep the designer shirt, but only after he realized the outsize faith he had put in it.

“The Cosby Show” was renowned for portraying Cliff and Clair as loving and authoritative parents. The show shunned the notion of parents as buffoons. It refused the trope of the long-suffering mother and the clueless father. But equally important was the show’s depiction of children who could be filled with personality and sass without ever becoming disrespectful or trying.

Theo was not the smartest of the Huxtable kids. He wasn’t the coolest. But he was the one who embodied the powerful, delightful, exceptional normalcy of being a Black boy.

[erashq]

can we have some mw chars please and thank you!

of  course  you  can  !  here's  some  that  i'd  love  to  see  georgina  sparks,  nate  archibald,  dan  humphrey,  jenny  humphrey,  and  vanessa  abrams  (  gossip  girl  ),  lizzie  mcguire,  kate  sanders,  miranda  sanchez,  ethan  craft,  david  gordon,  and  larry  tudgeman  (  lizzie  mcguire  ),  cory  matthews,  shawn  hunter,  angela  moore,  eric  matthews,  jack  hunter,  and  rachel  mcguire  (  boy  meets  world  ),  nathan  scott,  lucas  scott,  rachel  gatina,  alex  dupre,  chase  adams,  jake  jagielski,  tim  smith,  bevin  mirskey,  skills  taylor,  mia  catalano,  millicent  huxtable  and  mouth  mcfadden  (  one  tree  hill  ),  seth  cohen,  johnny  harper,  taylor  townsend,  kirsten  cohen,  sandy  cohen,  julie  cooper,  kaitlin  cooper,  luke  ward,  and  anna  stern  (  the  oc  ),  cady  heron,  janis  ian,  damian  haynes,  aaron  samuels,  regina  george,  karen  smith,  gretchen  weiners  (  mean  girls  ),  prue  halliwell,  phoebe  halliwell,  paige  matthews  and  piper  halliwell  (  charmed  ),  dionne  davenport,  travis  birkenstock,  elton  tiscia,  amber  mariens,  cher  horowitz,  christian  stovitz,  and  murray  duvall  (  clueless  ),  dj  tanner,  stephanie  tanner,  jesse  katsopolis  and  becky  donaldson  (  full  house  ),  marcia  brady,  jan  brady,  greg  brady  (  the  brady  bunch  ),  gomez  addams  and  morticia  addams  (  the  addams  family  ),  monica  geller,  ross  geller,  joey  tribbiani,  chandler  bing,  mike  hannigan,  jill  green,  amy  green,  carol  willick,  susan  bunch,  phoebe  buffay,  and   janice  litman  (  friends  ),  brenda walsh, dylan mckay, brandon walsh, kelly taylor, donna martin, steve sanders, david silver, andrea zuckerman, valerie malone, gina kincaid, and janet sosna ( beverly hills 90210 ), kat stratford and bianca stratford ( 10 things i hate about you ), danny zuko, betty rizzo, sandy olson, sonny latierri, roger "putzie", marty maraschino, frenchy facciano, patty simcox, doody, jan, marty and kenickie murdoch ( grease ), jane nichols and kevin doyle ( 27 dresses ), and  benjamin  barry  and  andie  anderson  (  how  to  loose  a  guy  in  ten  days  )  !

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mrs. Claire Huxtable was NOT playing with Vanessa in this classic scene from the legendary sitcom, #TheCosbyShow.

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Robert: Vanessa, Is It okay if I Call You sometime?

Vanessa: Yeah!

Robert: Maybe I could walk you to school tomorrow.

Vanessa: Okay.

Robert: I leave at eight o'clock.

Vanessa: I'll be here.

Robert: Great!Even if it's raining.

Vanessa: Okay.

Robert: But if it snows, I have to ask my dad.

Vanessa: Okay.

Robert: Vanessa?

Vanessa: What?

Robert: Vanessa, want to go steady?

Vanessa: Do you want to go steady?

Robert: If you want to.

Vanessa: Sure! I want to.

Robert: Well, I guess we're going steady.

Vanessa: I guess we're going steady. What does that mean?

Robert: Well, it means I'll call you and walk you to school.

Vanessa: I'd like that. My hands are all sweaty.

Robert: It's okay. We're

going steady

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[polniaczek]

The Cosby Show + favorite looks (9/∞)

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Tempestt Bledsoe as Vanessa Huxtable, Phylicia Rashad as Clair Hanks Huxtable, Keshia Knight Pulliam as Rudy Huxtable, Sabrina Le Beauf as Sondra Huxtable Tibideaux on the set of The Cosby Show (c. 1980s)

[lboogie1906]

The Cosby Show is a television sitcom co-created and starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons (1984-92). The show focuses on an upper-middle-class African American family living in Brooklyn.

The Show spent five consecutive seasons as the number-one-rated show on television. The Show and All in the Family are the only sitcoms in the history of the Nielsen ratings to be the #1 show for five seasons. It spent all eight of its seasons in the top 20.

The show “was TV’s biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and rating fortunes.” TV Guide ranked it 28th on their list of 50 Greatest Shows. In addition, Cliff Huxtable was named the “Greatest Television Dad”.

Entertainment Weekly stated that The Cosby Show helped to make possible a larger variety of shows with a predominantly African American cast, from In Living Color to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The Show was based on comedy routines in Cosby’s stand-up act, which in turn were based on his family life. The show led to the spinoff A Different World, which ran for six seasons (1987-93).

The patriarch is Cliff Huxtable, an obstetrician, and son of a prominent jazz trombonist. The matriarch is his wife, attorney Clair Huxtable.

They have four daughters and one son: Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa, and Rudy. Despite its comedic tone, the show sometimes involves serious subjects, like Theo’s experiences dealing with dyslexia, inspired by Cosby’s dyslexic son, Ennis. The show also deals with teen pregnancy when Denise’s friend, Veronica, becomes pregnant. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[erdediekatze]

I know its a jump, but Vanessa Huxtable and Shenshen from Elfquest are basically the same person in my mind