Lisa Bonet was born in San Francisco to an African-American father and a Jewish-American mother.  She began acting at age 11, and became most famous for her role as Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show beginning in 1984.  She also starred in the somewhat controversial Angel Heart with Mickey Rourke in 1987.  She was married to musician Lenny Kravitz from 1988 to 1993, and they had a daughter.

So, what's up with the pipe?  Some people are so eager to point to certain celebrities as pipe smokers that they will jump at the chance to call anyone a pipe smoker who pops a stem in his/her mouth.

I must remain skeptical in this instance as to the question of her pipe smoking status, for these reasons:

1.  There is no smoke rising from the bowl of the pipe.
2.  The angle of the photo makes it impossible to see if the pipe is loaded or not.
3.  If this meerschaum pipe has ever been smoked at all, it could not have been smoked very much, because it shows absolutely no coloration.

Still, this is probably the only legitimate reason I'll ever have to post a photo of Lisa Bonet on my blog, so carpe diem.