Editing Lisa Bonet (section)

==Early life==
Lisa Michelle Bonet was born on November 16, 1967, in [[San Francisco]], California,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lisa Bonet, Actress, and Model born |url=https://aaregistry.org/story/lisa-bonet-talent-and-mystery/ |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=African American Registry |language=en |archive-date=August 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810114922/https://aaregistry.org/story/lisa-bonet-talent-and-mystery/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lisa Bonet News |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/lisa-bonet/ |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=Us Weekly |language=en-US |archive-date=March 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319143724/https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/lisa-bonet/ |url-status=live }}</ref> to Arlene Joyce Litman, a white Jewish-American schoolteacher, and Allen Bonet, an [[opera singer]] of African-American heritage from [[Texas]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.net-a-porter.com/gb/en/porter/article-33a55e73f6c7ac7b/cover-stories/cover-stories/lisa-bonet |title=Lisa Bonet on family, husband Jason Momoa & working with Bill Cosby |date=March 9, 2018 |work=Porter Edit / NET-A-PORTER.COM |access-date=May 21, 2018 |quote=Bonet was born in the heart of the hippie movement, in November 1967 in San Francisco, to a white Jewish schoolteacher mother and a black opera-singing father. |archive-date=May 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511215641/https://www.net-a-porter.com/gb/en/porter/article-33a55e73f6c7ac7b/cover-stories/cover-stories/lisa-bonet |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Joy |last=D'Souza |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/05/16/zoe-kravitz-mixed-background_n_16641120.html |title=Zoe Kravitz Reveals How She Learned To Love Her Mixed Background |work=HuffPost Canada |date=May 16, 2017 |access-date=May 8, 2018 |archive-date=March 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322171950/https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/05/16/zoe-kravitz-mixed-background_n_16641120.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Henry |title=Zoë Kravitz: 'Why do stories happen to white people and everyone else is a punchline?' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/aug/20/zoe-kravitz-why-do-stories-happen-to-white-people-and-everyone-else-is-a-punchline |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=August 12, 2017 |date=August 20, 2015 |archive-date=May 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525153056/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/aug/20/zoe-kravitz-why-do-stories-happen-to-white-people-and-everyone-else-is-a-punchline |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="McCann">{{cite book |last=McCann |first=Bob |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7ZYsnTPIhwC&pg=PA49 |title=Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television |date=2007 |publisher=McFarland and Company |isbn=978-0-7864-3790-0 |location=Jefferson, N.C. |page=49 |access-date=September 18, 2017}}</ref><ref name="hollywood">{{cite web |date=February 8, 2015 |title=Lisa Bonet {{!}} Biography and Filmography {{!}} 1967 |url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/lisa-bonet-57301725/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129090119/http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/lisa-bonet-57301725/ |archive-date=November 29, 2017 |access-date=August 12, 2017 |publisher=Hollywood.com, LLC.}}</ref> She has five half-sisters, including singer [[Kadhja Bonet]], and two half-brothers by her father's marriage to Deborah Church. Bonet's parents separated when Bonet was still a baby. Bonet was raised by her single mother in middle-class [[Reseda, Los Angeles|Reseda]] and never knew her father.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Valle |first=Victor |date=1987-02-26 |title=BONET'S 'ANGEL' HEARTACHE |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-02-26-ca-5858-story.html |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> Bonet said she never fit in at [[Birmingham High School]], in [[Van Nuys]], California. "I was stuck in the middle," she told [[Los Angeles Times|''The Los Angeles Times.'']] “The black kids called me an Oreo. The white kids didn’t talk to me."<ref name=":1" />

She said she did not date in high school because she didn't fit in. “My biggest worry in high school was who was going to take me to the prom, since I didn’t have a date," she told the  ''Los Angeles Times.'' She said the problem disappeared when she landed the [[The Cosby Show|Cosby]] job in New York and wouldn’t attend prom.<ref name=":1" />

Bonet graduated Birmingham High School and later studied acting at the Celluloid Actor's Studio in North Hollywood.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018126/bio |title=Lisa Bonet Biography |publisher=Yahoo! Movies|access-date=January 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113183130/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018126/bio|archive-date=January 13, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-02-26-ca-5858-story.html |title=Bonet's 'Angel' Heartache |first=Victor |last=Valle |author-link=Victor Valle |date=February 26, 1987 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=June 20, 2020 |archive-date=August 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815200436/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-02-26-ca-5858-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>