Introduction
You probably know her as the cute teenage daughter of Cliff and Clair on the famous sitcom “The Cosby Show.” However, do you know that Tempestt Bledsoe was a model before her acting career, and what major did she choose for her training?
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Early life and education
Tempestt Bledsoe was born on August 1, 1973 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of African American descent. During her early childhood, her parents divorced and she was placed in the custody of her mother, Willa Bledsoe. She is the second cousin of Dallas Cowboys and New England Patriots footballer Drew Bledsoe.
When she was just four years old, she became a child model and appeared in several commercials for brands such as Kellogg’s and Safeway grocery stores. This helped her kick off her future acting career in TV series and feature films.
There is no information disclosed about her high school, but Bledsoe studied finance at New York University and graduated in 1994, then a few months later moved to Los Angeles, California, the United States. United States.
Career
Bledsoe made her television debut at the age of 11, after being cast as Vanessa Huxtable on Bill Cosby’s “The Cosby Show,” the lead couple’s fourth child who is troubled by the typical problems of teenage girls, such as dating and makeup.
She landed the role after auditioning in 1984, two years before the show premiered, when she was just nine years old! In 1985, she earned her first Young Artist Award nomination and remained a regular on the show for eight years. She also portrayed Vanessa Huxtable in a 1989 episode of “A Different World,” a spinoff of “The Cosby Show.”
In 1986, she played Grace Williams in a season 15 episode of the ABC show “Afterschool Special Program”. Two years later, she made supporting appearances in the TV movie “Dance ‘Til Dawn” and the TV series “Monsters.”
That same year, she won the Kids Choice Awards for Favorite Actress. She lands the lead role of Danni Fairview in the TV movie “Dream Date,” a romantic comedy about a teenage girl and her overprotective father. In 1989, she won the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor/Actress in a Television Comedy, Drama Series.
In the mid-1990s, she was the host of Columbia TriStar Television’s daytime talk show “The Tempestt Bledsoe Show”. She landed a guest role on the television series “Jenny” in which she played Kaylene, and the following year appeared in three episodes of the ABC mystery series “The Practice,” as the character Roberta Bayor.
In 1999, she appeared in the episode “And the Band Plays On” of the television series “The Parkers”.
In the early 2000s, Bledsoe was in several TV movies, including “The Expendables” and “Fire and Ice”, and portrayed guest character Chloe on the TV series “Rock Me, Baby”. In 2006, she had a supporting role in the final season of the romantic drama series “South of Nowhere”, and the same year she was nominated for the TV Land Awards for Favorite Singing Siblings. Two years later, in 2008, she was cast as Abbey and Claudia in the third season of “The Replacements”, the Disney Channel animated series.
After which, she made an appearance on VH1’s reality show “Celebrity Fit Club”, and in 2010 became the host of the Style Network makeover TV show “Clean House”, replacing the former host Niecy Nash. That same year, she co-starred in the crime drama film “N-Secure,” in which she played the role of Jill. She again won the TV Land Awards for Favorite Sibling Siblings in 2011.
In 2012, Bledsoe provided the voice of the character Sheriff Hooper in Laika LLC. animated film “ParaNorman”, in which she was credited alongside Anna Kendrick and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
That same year, she landed the co-starring role of Marny in the sitcom “Guys with Kids”, but the show was canceled after the second season.
Bledsoe reprized her portrayal of Vanessa Huxtable in 214, when she appeared in the TV series episode “Instant Mom.” In 2018, she starred in the musical “Jingle Belle”, and the following year had a guest role in the first season of the television series “Family Reunion”.0
Private life
Since April 2020, Bledsoe has been in a long-term relationship with her “A Different World” co-star Darryl M. Bell — the pair met on set and began dating in 1993.
They are often seen attending VIP and red carpet events together. They both appeared on the reality show “House-husbands of Hollywood” which aired in 2009. The couple have no children and have not disclosed any news about a possible marriage.
She is a good friend of her “The Cosby Show” co-star Pam Potillo.
Bledsoe is a vegetarian and a big animal rights activist. She also publicly advises people to protect their skin, so that they are safer from skin cancer.
Despite rumors that her skin is blotchy and discolored, Bledsoe does not bleach or lighten her skin in any way. She is said to have a skin condition known as vitiligo, which causes certain areas of the skin to lose pigment.
In 2017, Bledsoe and his co-stars on “The Cosby Show” were at the center of controversy surrounding sexual assault allegations against star and show creator Bill Cosby. Although most of her co-stars publicly supported Cosby, saying they believed the allegations were false, Bledsoe remained silent, declining to publicly comment on the situation. In September 2018, Cosby, 81, was sentenced to three to ten years in prison.
Net value
Acting isn’t Bledsoe’s only source of income; she also owns a restaurant chain in Washington DC. This is the reason why she has an estimated net worth of around $13 million.
Physical characteristics
Bledsoe is a tall African American woman, with a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.72 m) and a weight of around 132 pounds (60 kg). Her hair is curly and black and her eyes are dark brown.
