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Tempestt Bledsoe (born August 1, 1973 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress best known for her role as Bill Cosby`s daughter and fourth child, Vanessa Huxtable, in the popular 1980s sitcom The Cosby Show. In the mid-1990s, Tempestt enjoyed a year long run as the host of her own daytime talk show, The Tempestt Bledsoe Show, produced by Columbia-Tristar and Dick Clark. In 2006, she participated in the third season of Celebrity Fit Club, and lost 19 pounds (8.6 kg). She made a brief appearance in the sitcom The Parkers, and has been featured in the recurring role of a single mother on the ABC show The Practice, the Lifetime show Strong Medicine, and South Of Nowhere. Her most recent credits include starring as Nina in the Oxygen Channel`s original television movie, "Husband For Hire", and Abby in the third season of Disney Channel`s animated series "The Replacements". Bledsoe is mentioned in Stephen Levitt`s book Freakonomics; a mother named her child Temptress after Bledsoe, having mistaken her name.

In addition to her acting career, she received a degree in finance from New York University and enjoys music. She is married to Darryl M. Bell who played Ron Johnson on A Different World.

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