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Sabrina Le Beauf, ex-wife of Michael Reynolds on the Cosby Show, how old is she?

By Jessica Cortez

Sabrina Le Beauf, ex-wife of Michael Reynolds on the Cosby Show, how old is she?

The Cosby Show aired for eight seasons on NBC and although it introduced us to the Huxtable family, an upper-middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York. He was voted the most atypical black family in television history by TV Guide. As incredible as the success of the show was, so were the stars cast. One of them is Sabrina Le Beauf, who played the Huxtables’ eldest child, Sondra Huxtable.

Beyond the screen, she is also a stage and voice actress with notable works such as the animated series Nick at Nite. Fatherhood, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and The Taming of the Shrew to its credit. These days, she’s deeply entrenched in her interior design business.

Sabrina Le Beauf – How old is she?

Sabrina Marie Le Beauf is of Louisiana Creole History and was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 21, 1958. She was later raised in Los Angeles alongside her brother, Graylan Moore, after her family moved in the City of Angels shortly after his birth. Growing up, she was fascinated by Shakespeare’s tales and enjoyed portraying any character in his plays.

Le Beauf completed her high school education at St. Matthias Catholic Girls High School in Huntington Park, California, predating the institution’s move to the campus of Pius X High School in Downey, California. She then went to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Theater.

Afterwards, she took her love for acting a step further by enrolling in the Yale School of Drama where she learned all the nuances of acting, honing her skills. She was trained by actor and director Robert Lewis and also shared lessons with future actors such as John Turturro, Charles S. Dutton and Angela Bassett. Finally, she was ready for a professional career and began auditioning for both stage and screen roles.

Sabrina Le Beauf may be single today but once married. She tied the knot with Washington DC radio producer Michael Reynolds just six weeks after they met in 1987. Sadly, they divorced in 1996.

Career and the Cosby Show

Sabrina Le Beauf made her theatrical debut with a play performed at a theater in New York. In 1984, she landed a role on the NBC sitcom, The Cosby Show as the eldest daughter of the Huxtable family, Sondra which, in turn, marked her professional breakthrough by putting her on the prominence map. Her theatrical experience gave her an edge over hundreds of other actresses who auditioned for the role, including Whitney Houston.

Phylicia Rashad played her mother, Clair Huxtable, while Bill Cosby took on the role of Huxtable patriarch, Dr. Cliff. The show aired from 1984 to 1992 and it appeared in 52 episodes. Le Beauf’s performance won her the 1989 Best Ensemble Young Actress Award in a Television Comedy, Drama Series or Special at the Young Artist Awards.

While her career on television progresses, Sabrina Le Beauf does not give up the theater. She has participated in Love, Loss and What I Wore performed at various theaters including the Westside Theater in New York, the Delaware Theater Center, and the Scottsdale Center for the Arts. Le Beauf also played many roles at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C., including Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew, Rosalind in As You Like It, Cordelia in King Lear, Rosaline in The Labor of Lost Love, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well

His elite performances have also been staged by many other theaters such as George Street Playhouse, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, Goodman Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Republics, San Jose Rep., Arizona Theater Company, and Chautauqua Theater Institute. She has also appeared in films such as the television movie Howard Beach: Plea for Murder.

On the small screen, Le Beauf appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993) as Ensign Giusti and lends her voice to Norma Bindlebeep, the voiced wife of scientist Dr Arthur Bindlebeep. by Blair Underwood in the animated sitcom Fatherhood. Additionally, she has hosted several television shows including In Your Own Backyard, E! From the Homes With Style TV channel and was also dubbed as the corresponding East Coast host of the Oregon TV series Smart Gardening.

Where is she now?

After the Cosby Show, Sabrina LeBeauf decided to follow her other passion, interior design. She enrolled in a professional interior design program at her alma mater UCLA and started her own interior design business following graduation, though she continued to act.

She attended the Sundance Theater Lab and the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference where she was both a script reader and performer. Additionally, her knowledge of interior design came in handy when she hosted In Your Own Backyard and Homes with Style. Sabrina Le Beauf lives in New York where her business is growing by leaps and bounds.

Although interior design might seem like a career outside of the bar for someone with an acting background, Le Beauf said in an interview that she finds as much satisfaction in it as she does in acting.

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