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. Her next scheduled role will see her as the Queen of Naboo in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. 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. She received widespread critical acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for her performance. Tempestt Bledsoe (born August 1, 1973) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Vanessa Huxtable in The Cosby Show. Despite not possessing any previous acting experience, the then 11-year-old Castle-Hughes went directly from her Auckland classroom to the set when the film began shooting in New Zealand in 2002. On January 27, 2004, she became the youngest person ever nominated for the Academy Awards' Oscar for Best Actress, for her portrayal of Paikea Apirana (Pai) in the low-budget film Whale Rider.

Born in Donnybrook, Western Australia to a Maori mother and an Australian father, Castle-Hughes was four years old when her family moved to New Zealand. Her parents later separated. Keisha Castle-Hughes (born March 24, 1990) is an actress from Glen Innes, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.