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'''Liliquois Moon ''' (born [[1967]]), who was born and is known in the entertainment world as '''Lisa Bonet''', is an [[United States|American]] [[actress]] who is a native of [[San Francisco|San Francisco, California]]. She is best known for being on ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' alongside [[Bill Cosby]] and [[Tempestt Bledsoe|Tempest Bledsoe]], among others, but Bonet actually began acting when she was 11, attending many auditions and participating in several [[television]] commercials before she became a star.

Bonet was known to have a wild side, like her character of "Denise" in the Cosby show. In [[1987]] she accepted the part of a sexy character in the movie [[Angel Heart]] opposite [[Mickey Rourke]], directed by [[Alan Parker]]. Her appearance there drew some controversy and some scenes had to be edited for the American public. Her explicit sex scenes in the film drew concern from the producers of "The Cosby Show," who felt it detracted from the image of her character. The film did not help her movie-acting career and she returned to the television world with another Cosby-produced show, ''A Different World''. In 1987 she married [[singer]] [[Lenny Kravitz]]. In [[1988]], she posed naked for ''[[Rolling Stone Magazine]]'', causing a large controversy and serious concerns from Cosby, who treated her and the rest of the actors who played his kids on the show as if they were his real-life kids. Although posing naked gave her name much international exposure, it did not help her career in the movies very much.

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