Tempestt Bledsoe

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. In 1991 she was going to participate in Father of the Bride, but became pregnant and could not act in the movie. 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. In 1989 she married actor Kevin Kline. Tempestt Bledsoe (born August 1, 1973) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Vanessa Huxtable in The Cosby Show. She was famous in the early and middle 1980s for her acting in a handful of teen-orientated movies, and her face made the covers of teen magazines such as Tiger Beat, 16, Teen Beat and others. She is also the god-daughter of actress Joan Crawford.

She is a native of New York City, where she attended the Children's professional Acting School. She is the daughter of director Joseph Cates and the niece of Gilbert Cates, also a director. Phoebe Belle Katz Cates (born July 16, 1963) is an American film actress who, by her description, has retired from acting to become a full-time mother. The Anniversary Party (2001).

Princess Caraboo (1994). Bodies, Rest and Motion (1993). Drop Dead Fred (1991). Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990).

I Love You to Death (1990). Shag (1989). Bright Lights, Big City (1988). Date with an Angel (1987).

Gremlins (1984). Lace (1984, TV). Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). Paradise (1982).