Which actress portrayed Aunt Vivian in the first three seasons of the show?

Janet Hubert portrayed Aunt Vivian Banks during the first three seasons of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Hubert played the original Vivian Banks from the show’s premiere in 1990 through the end of season three in 1993. Vivian is Philip Banks’s wife and the mother of Hilary, Carlton, and Ashley. Unlike the show’s broadest comic characters, she is often portrayed as a highly educated, strong-willed, and emotionally perceptive parent. Her background as a dancer and later a professor also gives her storylines involving ambition, identity, and family responsibility.

Hubert’s departure created one of the sitcom’s most recognizable cast changes. Daphne Maxwell Reid took over the role beginning in season four and continued as Vivian for the remainder of the series. Both actresses therefore played Aunt Vivian, but Janet Hubert is the correct answer when the question specifies the first three seasons. Hubert was born in Chicago in 1956 and studied at Juilliard before building a film and television career.