Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Tempestt Bledsoe (born August 1, 1973) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Vanessa Huxtable in The Cosby Show. Since then, she has had a short-lived daytime talk show and has been featured in the role of a single mother on the ABC show The Practice Bledsoe has also been featured recently on television interviews, where she spoke of her experiences as a child star together with her co-stars Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Lisa Bonet, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Keshia Knight Pulliam, and Sabrina Le Beauf. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.