Phylicia Rashad

Phylicia Rashad, Actress: The Cosby Show. Phylicia Rashad was born in Houston, Texas, to African-American parents, Vivian Elizabeth (Ayers), a poet and art director, and Andrew Arthur Allen, an orthodontist. As a child, Phylicia, her older brother Andrew (called Tex), and younger sister, dancer and actress Debbie Allen, lived in Mexico. She has another brother, Hugh Allen (a real estate banker in North Carolina). Their mother decided to ...

Phylicia Rashad or Rashād (/fɪˈliːʃə rəˈʃɑːd/ fih-LEE-shə rə-SHAHD) (née Ayers-Allen; June 19, 1948) is an American actress, singer and stage director.

Although the marriage of Clair and Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show was a model of the perfect union for many TV viewers, the actress who played Clair, Phyli...

Bill Cosby's TV wife is standing firmly in his corner -- even as attorney Gloria Allred introduced three more women who have leveled accusations at Cosby.

Although the marriage of Clair and Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show was a model of the perfect union for many TV viewers, the actress who played Clair, Phylicia Rashad, had great struggles with her off-air relationships.

As three more women step forward with accusations against Cosby, Rashad describes the man she says she knows.

“The Cosby Show's" Phylicia Rashad spoke out about the Bill Cosby sexual assault allegations, defending her longtime TV co-star.

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America's sitcom mom loves billowing, draped fabrics as much as Bud loved Rudy Huxtable.

“My mother was determined that her children would not be scarred by this ignorance.”

Ms. Rashad says the effort needed to portray the matriarch in this Tarell Alvin McCraney play leaves her “a little buoyant, to tell you the truth.”