Actress Janet Hubert

Janet Hubert is one of those women for whom the term "striking" was invented. :-)



The Chicago-born stage and television actress first became known for playing Tantomile in the original cast of the Broadway version of Cats, which did not allow her the opportunity to capitalize on her looks. (All of the cast members looked like Kiss's first drummer. :-O)

She achieved fame as Will Smith's Aunt Vivian in the NBC sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," in which she appeared for the first three seasons. She left when she became pregnant, apparently causing a violation of contract, yet her pregnancy was written into the show. In any case, she was replaced, and so the post-Boomer generation got its own equivalent to the "two Darrins on 'Bewitched'" syndrome.

Janet Hubert has worked steadily in television since, and she plans to publish a memoir in 2010.