Tempestt Bledsoe

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. Carter is interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. 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. They were further shocked to discover that Carter had been living as a closeted lesbian, and that custody of her children had been left to her domestic partner. Tempestt Bledsoe (born August 1, 1973) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Vanessa Huxtable in The Cosby Show. She was the mother of two adopted teenagers. When she died, friends and family were surprised to discover barely $200 in her bank account. Carter died from heart disease complicated by diabetes in 2003.

Born Nell Ruth Hardy in Birmingham, Alabama, Carter won a Tony Award for her work in Ain't Misbehavin and appeared in Annie on Broadway and in the television shows Gimme a Break! and The Match Game. Nell Carter (September 13, 1948 - January 23, 2003) was an American singer and actress.