At 58, Lisa Bonet still moves with the same calm edge she brought to Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show. November 16, 2025 marks her birthday and 41 years since the show turned a 16-year-old from San Francisco into a household name. The decades rolled on. The style didn’t chase trends. Thick hair, minimal makeup, earthy fits. You recognize her instantly.
Bonet grew up in the San Fernando Valley after her parents split when she was two. Her mother, Arlene Litman, raised her alone. School wasn’t easy. She felt out of place as a mixed-race kid, too different for every room she entered. “The world wasn’t ready for what I represented,” she later said. Acting became work, not fantasy. “I really had to work,” she told Interview in 1987. That mindset stuck.
Fame hit fast and brought friction. On A Different World, her pregnancy clashed with Bill Cosby’s ideas for Denise. Debbie Allen tried to help. It didn’t land. Bonet moved on. She always does.
Her personal life unfolded in public anyway. She married Lenny Kravitz on her 20th birthday in 1987. Their daughter Zoë Kravitz arrived in 1988. The marriage ended in 1993, but the respect didn’t. “I am what I am because of our experience,” Kravitz told People.
In 2005, she met Jason Momoa at a jazz club. They had Lola in 2007 and Nakoa-Wolf in 2008. A quiet wedding followed in 2017. The split came later, finalized in January 2024. No drama tour. Momoa stood with the kids at Zoë’s The Batman premiere in 2022. “It’s still family, you know?” he said.
In 2025, Zoë Kravitz and Lisa Bonet camped at Swift’s house during January fires with their pet snake. Swift was away, so Kravitz used her home: “I want to be a good houseguest. I like to leave places better than I found them. I don’t want her to even know we were here.” Then their snake, Orpheus, slithered into a hole, causing the mom and daughter to panic. They called in help via Kravitz’s assistant, who also didn’t know what to do, and the manager of the house, who was not too happy to hear about the snake. “He gets a crowbar and starts having to tear apart this banquette. We’re ripping up the tile. We’re scratching the walls,” Kravitz said. “And there was just this moment where I was like, ‘Either we destroy her bathroom, or I have to tell her that there’s a snake somewhere in her house.'” So they “destroyed the bathroom,” with Kravitz telling the house manager that she would pay for everything and asking if he would please not tell Swift until it was fixed.
This is probably just one of the wild adventures Lisa has with her daughter, Zoë.
Lisa Bonet never chased Hollywood after High Fidelity or Enemy of the State. “I always had one foot in and one foot out,” she admitted. That choice shows. At 58, she doesn’t look frozen in time. She looks settled. That’s the trick most people miss.
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Not sure I like the toothpick threw her nose, but to each his own I gues…