Shabana Azmi

One of the leading actresses of parallel cinema, she is now maried to the lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar. Bledsoe has also been featured recently on television interviews, where she spoke of her experiences as a child star together with her co-stars Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Lisa Bonet, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Keshia Knight Pulliam, and Sabrina Le Beauf. As an actress, she has starred in Amar Akbar Anthony, Makdee, and Tehzeeb. Since then, she has had a short-lived daytime talk show and has been featured in the role of a single mother on the ABC show The Practice. Shabana Azmi (born 18 September 1950 at New Delhi , India ) is the daughter of famous Urdu poet Kaify Azmi. Tempestt Bledsoe (born August 1, 1973) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Vanessa Huxtable in The Cosby Show.