The Cosby Show Flashback

"The Cosby Show."

Big Sis - Sabrina Le Beauf played big sister Sondra Huxtable on The Cosby Show, but she almost didn't get the role because she was only 10-years younger than Phylicia Rashad, who played her mother on the show.\r(Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Cute as a Button - Cutie-pie Rudy was that annoying little sister you can't help but love, Keshia Knight Pulliam grew up on the small screen and un-like many child actors she's managed to re-invent herself, and stay out of trouble.\r(Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection)
A Different World\r - Devine portrayed Stevie Rallen in the hit '90s sitcom. Though she was not a main character, the show itself was influential and addressed various topics in the African-American community.\r \r(Photo: Carsey-Werner/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Raven Symone - At age four, Raven-Symone was cast as Olivia in the celebrated Bill Cosby Show. Since then she has turned her name and acting career into a bonafide media empire. (Photo: Walter McBride/Retna Ltd)Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Theodore Huxtable - On The Cosby Show, Malcolm-Jamal Warner's Theo helped to reimagine the TV son and brother in sitcoms. He was the schoolgirl crush of a generation, earnest, hard-working and flawed, but always respectful. Warner's characterization of Theo embodied multicultural America's boy next door. (Photo: CBS)  

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Cute as a Button - Cutie-pie Rudy was that annoying little sister you can't help but love, Keshia Knight Pulliam grew up on the small screen and un-like many child actors she's managed to re-invent herself, and stay out of trouble.\r(Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection)

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