Bill Cosby

ABOUT BILL COSBY

Stand-up comedian who became known for starring on his own sitcom The Cosby Show , which aired from 1984 to 1992. He later created the comedy series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids .

After flunking 10th grade, he worked as an apprentice at a local shoe repair shop and began performing stand up comedy at The Hungry I nightclub in San Francisco. While attending Temple University , he worked as a bartender at a Philadelphia club called The Cellar.

In 1965, he starred in I Spy , and a couple years later he won a Best Comedy Performance Grammy Award for his album To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With. In 2018, he was tried and found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault.

He married Camille Cosby in 1964, and they had five children named Erika , Erinn, Ensa , Evin, and Ennis . Ensa passed away in 2018.

His wife on The Cosby Show was Clair Huxtable, played by Phylicia Rashad .