Although she's kept a low profile for most of her life following her stint on "The Cosby Show," fans continue to get glimpses of her through social media. Le Beauf, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, once shared classrooms with Angela Bassett back in the day, making her just ten years younger than Phylicia Rashad. This love for the show stems from the great casting, which of course, includes Le Beauf, who won over the show producers despite having women like Whitney Houston audition for the same role.
Towards the end of the show, Le Beauf actually had problems with producers who wanted her to be "on call" during the last couple of episodes.
She couldn't understand why she couldn't just be called in when she had work and not sit around on set, waiting for them to call on her. In the end, Bill Cosby had to come in and help her. Thanks to his intervention , her work release agreement was amicably settled. After the end of the successful show in , Le Beauf decided that even though she loved acting, she wanted to specialize in something else to secure her future.
So, following her other passion, she enrolled in an interior design program at UCLA and began designing homes for well-off clients.
In an interview she did some years ago, she explained how important it was for her to start an interior design business. She only appeared in 54 episodes of the show's episode run per IMDb and often felt like the situations she was put in didn't allow her to showcase her talents. Unlike other actresses of the day, she wasn't afraid to say so.
Having been on the show for five years I have not been able to do what I am capable of doing. I feel cheated that 55 million people a week watch something that is not my best work. Le Beauf became more of a mainstay on the show later in its run, when we saw Sondra and husband Elvin Tibideaux played by Geoffrey Owens welcome twins Winnie and Nelson, named after the Mandelas. In it, she found love for the field. Once it's there and people really like it, it's the same as the applause you get as an actor.
She didn't give up on acting altogether, however. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Sondra Huxtable. Edit source History Talk 0. Personal Information Born: April 19, Age 57 Character description: The oldest of five children and the oldest child born to Cliff and Clair Huxtable who appears on the series. About Sondra [ ] Sondra did not appear onscreen until Episode 10 of season 1 of The Cosby Show ; in fact, she did not even exist in the pilot episode Clair: "Why do we have four children?
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