T&T Carnival is no stranger to celebrities and among the latest to visit these shores is actress Phylicia Rashad, best known as Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show.

According to post by the PNM on Facebook, Ms Rashad has now had her first corn soup and steelpan orchestra experience during the lead up to next week’s Carnival revelry.

From 1984 to 1992, she portrayed the Clair Huxtable, the matriarch of the Huxtable family and wife of Cliff Huxtable, played by Bill Cosby.

Her role on the TV show earned her Emmy nominations in 1985 and 1986 and she was once dubbed by Time as “America’s favorite TV mom”.