Who played Sondra Huxtable on the Cosby Show?
The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, first airing on September 20, 1984 and running for eight seasons on the NBC television network, until April 30, 1992. The show focused on the Huxtable family, an upper-middle class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York. According to TV Guide, the show “was TV’s biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC’s ratings fortunes”.[1] Originally, the show had been pitched to ABC, which rejected it.[1] Entertainment Weekly stated that The Cosby Show helped to make possible a larger variety of shows based on African Americans, from In Living Color to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.[2] The Cosby Show was also one of the first successful sitcoms based on the subject matter of a standup comedian’s act, blazing a trail for other programs such as Roseanne, Home Improvement, The Drew Carey Show, Seinfeld, and Everybody Loves Raymond. The Cosby Show is one of only three
Sondra Huxtable Tibideaux Seldom seen during the show’s first season, Princeton student Sondra nevertheless manages to make her presence felt. Sondra is the first of the group to marry and bring a spouse into the Huxtable fold… literally, because she and her husband Elvin actually move back in with Cliff and Clair. This supposedly “temporary” arrangement does tend to complicate Cliff’s life, especially when Sondra and Elvin produce the first Huxtable grandchildren, twins Nelson and Winnie. Sources: http://www.tvland.com/prime/shows/cosby/character_sondra_huxtable.
