Keisha Knight Pulliam aka Keisha biography

Real biography: Introduction

Keshia Knight Pulliam is an Emmy nominated Jamaican American actress. She is most recognized and remembered for her role as Bill Cosby's youngest daughter and child, Rudy Huxtable, on the NBC sitcom, The Cosby Show.

Biography

She became the youngest actress ever to be nominated for an Emmy at age six for best supporting actress. Even before that — at age 3 — she played Keshia on Sesame Street.

Her character on The Cosby Show, Rudy, was mostly known for being the "baby" of the family. She was very young at the start of the show, but grew up on screen.

Knight Pulliam attended Rutgers Preparatory School in Somerset, New Jersey, The Potomac School in McLean, Virginia, and graduated from Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia. She graduated from Spelman College in 2001 with a degree in sociology and participated in, and won, a celebrity version of Fear Factor in September 2002. She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

In 2004, Knight Pulliam posed for a six-page lingerie and swimsuit layout in Black Men magazine in an attempt to get rid of her Rudy "little girl" image. The same year, she starred in Chingy's music video for "One Call Away".