Liliquois Moon (born 1967), who was born and is known in the entertainment world as Lisa Bonet, is an American actress who is a native of San Francisco, California. She is best known for being on The Cosby Show alongside Bill Cosby and 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. And in 1987 she accepted the part of a sexy character, in a movie named Angel Heart, opposite Mickey Rourke. Her appearance there drew some controversy, and some scenes had to be edited for the American public. 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 also 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, either.
After giving birth to daugther Zoe in 1989, she became disinterested in A Different World, and soon afterward she quit that show. Her appearances on the Cosby show also became sporadic after Zoe's birth, and by the early 1990s she decided to quit acting and dedicate herself to her baby. But she and Kravitz divorced in 1993, and she began to accept jobs on straight-to-video releases and made-for-tv movies. Soon after, she changed her name legally, deciding to keep using her birthname on the productions she participated at. Soon, she started dating yoga instructor Brian Kest, with whom she had another child, and in 1998, she had a supporting role in Enemy of the State, with Will Smith. In 2000, she appeared in the movie High Fidelity.
==Filmography== :
- Angel Heart (1987)
- Bank Robber (1993)
- New Eden (1994)
- Dead Connection (1994)
- Enemy of the State (1998)
- High Fidelity (2000)
- Lathe of Heaven (2002)
- Biker Boyz (to be released in 2003)