List of recurring characters from That's So Raven
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Throughout the run of the popular television show That's So Raven (shown on Disney Channel) there have been many recurring characters. Some of hem have stayed with the show for all four seasons although in most cases the character has just disappeared with or without an explanation.
Contents |
[edit] Teachers
- Señorita Rodriguez, played by Rose Abdoo
- Señorita Rodriguez is the Spanish teacher of Chelsea Daniels, Eddie Thomas, and Raven Baxter. She is also the head of the "Bayside Barracudian Newspaper", the Drama Club teacher, the adviser of the "Bayside Outdoor Club", and "FLUB" (Future Leaders United in Business) Club. She is often cracking jokes, and retailers say she takes too many freebies. She has appeared throughout the majority of episodes of the show. When she is in a conversation with someone and gets the person's hopes up with positive responses, she says NO with a negative tone - her catchphrase.
- Mr. Lawler, played by Wesley Mann
- Mr. Lawler is the cross-eyed teacher of Raven, Chelsea, and Eddie. He was their English teacher in season one, but became principal in season 2. He puts heavy emphasis on the letter "p", spitting when saying it. After becoming principal, he is no longer seen on screen. He is succeeded as principal by Dr. Harry S. Stuckerman.
- Ms. DePaulo, played by Amy Hill
- Ms. DePaulo is a science teacher at Bayside. She was first seen in the episode "Smell of Victory" where she paired Raven with Ben Sturky as science partners for a big project. She is an experienced bowler. Ms. DePaulo also looked after the Bayside Student Store, in episode "They Work Hard for His Honey". Eddie is her favorite student.
- Ms. Valentine, played by Karly Rothenberg
- Ms. Valentine is in charge of the Bayside Community center for the kids, who got Eddie, Raven, and Chelsea to start clubs with the kids. She is also the leader of Bayside Sunshine Girls. She was introduced in season 4 and appeared in three episodes, "Raven, Sydney, And The Man", "Sister Act", and "Rae of Sunshine".
- Mr. Petracelli, played by Ernie Sabella
- Mr. Petracelli was Raven, Eddie, and Chelsea's History teacher in season one, appearing in 2 episodes ("Mother Dearest" and "Escape Claus"). He occasionally cracks his neck in a weird, disgusting way. He is very spiteful to his students and is portrayed as having a security like detector implanted in his brain, which detects the negative things his students do. He had played Santa Claus in the Christmas episode "Escape Claus" in which he was taking a day off from school to play Santa Claus and caught Eddie, Raven, and Chelsea cutting school for a necklace Raven needed to get.
- Mr. Grozowtski, played by Stuart Pankin
- Mr. Grozowtski was Raven, Chelsea, and Eddie's English teacher in season two. He only appeared in two episodes ("Out Of Control" and "The Lying Game"). He is often clumsy and forgets things. In the episode "Out Of Control", he had misplaced the book reports of his class, which he was suppose to grade. In "The Lying Game"", he had mismatched the students' career placement tests.
- Dr. Harry S. Stuckerman, played by Steve Hytner
- In the most recent season, Dr. Stuckerman is the principal of Bayside. Dr. Stuckerman makes many rules, mainly regarding the dress code and mostly referring to Raven. In the episode Soup to Nuts Soup to Nuts", it is revealed that he has a bad back, but when he tripped on Raven's beads and fell on it, his whole spine was realigned and cured. In that same episode, Raven had a vision that he would quit, but due to his back being cured he decided to stay, saying that he would "be around making rules for a long time". He also appears in the episode "Teacher's Pet".
- Mrs. Applebaum, played by Mary Jo Catlett
- Mrs. Applebaum is Cory's teacher in Season 2 and 3. She is old and therefore often doesn't notice Cory and Cindy passing notes to each other.
[edit] Students at Raven's School
- Danny Warren, played by Ben Ziff
- Danny is Chelsea's boyfriend. He's known Eddie since the third grade and became Chelsea's boyfriend in season three and four. Because of her ditziness, Chelsea often forgets his name. He appeared in two episodes ("Save the Last Dance" and "When 6021 Met 4267").
- Ben "Stinky" Sturky, played by Joshua Harto
- Ben Sturky is a character from season one who had a crush on Raven. Although she wasn't in love with him, they seemed to be good friends in the end. He had a terrible body odor because he never took a shower (or sparsely, considering his "alias", Stinky Sturky). He beat Chelsea for class president.
- Devon Carter, played by Lil' J
- Devon Carter is Raven's boyfriend. He used to have braces and bad acne, but after he had his braces removed and his face 'cleared up', Raven and Alana were both fighting to be his girlfriend. He became Raven's boyfriend eventually, and continued to be after he moved to Seattle. Although he and his family moved to Seattle, he still sees Raven occasionally (when his father visits San Francisco on business trips). His favorite food is egg rolls.
- Alana, played by Adrienne Bailon
- Alana was the snobby rival of Raven Baxter, finding pleasure in teasing and bullying Raven. She hangs out with her bullying posse, Loca and Muffy. She was introduced in season two. It was revealed in the episode "Run Raven Run", Alana and Raven were once friends back in elementary school, but a fourth grade play had them both competing for the role of the tooth fairy (which Raven got while Alana portrayed tooth decay) would ruin their friendship. Alana and Raven almost became friends when Raven joined Alana's posse (in the episode "Clothes Minded") when Chelsea and Eddie did not stand up with her. Alana and her posse spent the night at Raven's house (in the episode "Shake, Rattle, and Rae") and almost became friends again until Alana said the score was 1-0. She was replaced in season three by Bianca, and "was so bad that she was sent to military school".
- Muffy, played by Ashley Drane
- Muffy is a member of Alana's (and, later on, Bianca's) posse. She usually recorded everything for Alana, and later for Bianca. She is known to be obsessed with the fictional boy band "Boyz in Motion". She took over as Raven's foremost enemy when Bianca left. There is some speculation that she might be a psychic, because she knows everything Alana and Bianca are thinking. She also has a younger sister, Buffy, who's mean to her.
- Loca, played by Andrea Edwards
- Loca is a member of Alana's (and, later on, Bianca's) posse. She is tough and did the "bad work" for Alana (and then Bianca). She is a tall girl who nobody likes to mess with. She is also romantically interested in Eddie; she likes to give him arm punches every time she sees him. Like Muffy, she is obsessed with "Boyz in Motion". She has also shown compassion for Raven in the season three episode Boyz In Commotion.
- Bianca, played by Erica Rivera
- Bianca took over as Raven's enemy when Alana was sent to military school and became Raven's new rival. She apparently was so bad she was kicked out of military school. She only appeared in two episodes in season three ("Boyz In Commotion" and "Gettin' Outta Dodge") and disappeared thereafter, being replaced by Muffy.
- Chantel, played by Drew Sidora
- Chantel is Eddie's girlfriend. She is known to eat a lot, despite her thin appearance. She broke up with Eddie, then later got back with him. She appears in four episodes (all in season 3), "Psychic Eye For The Sloppy Guy", "They Work Hard For His Honey", "Mismatch Maker", and "Save the Last Dance".
- Max, played by Brian Sites
- Max was one of Eddie's friends and basketball team mate during the first season. He appears to incredibly dumb and thinks that a football and a basketball have the same circumferences. In the episode "Teach Your Children Well" it is revealed that he has a crush on Raven's mother. He only appeared in the episodes, "Teach Your Children Well" and "Test Of Friendship"
[edit] Students at Cory's School
- The Juicer, played by Dan Mott
- The Juicer is a guy at Cory's school who bullies the other students. He has flunked the 7th grade four times. He steals all the students' lunches: If he likes them, he'll eat them, but if he doesn't, he'll "juice" them. If the fellow students don't do what he says, then he "juices" their heads.
- It is said he can get the "juice" out of anything, which is proven when he squeezes the "juice" out of a basketball on the episode "Mad Hot Cotillion". He appears in the season 4 episodes :"Juicer Consequences", "Mad Hot Cotillion", and "Teacher's Pet".
- Larry, played by David Henrie
- Larry is one of Cory's best friends and is Jewish, revealed in "Raven, Sydney, And The Man". He is the guitar player in "Cory and the Boys". He also has a yellow sweater he wears all the time during the winter and he takes the cotillion elective, revealed in "Juicer Consequences". He is also known to be over-worried, and weird.
- Cindy, played by Jordyn Coleman
- Cindy is Cory's girlfriend and is a bright student. She and Cory thought that since they were going to different junior high schools that they should see other people, and she started dating another boy, Tyler–Cory went out with another girl, Brittany; however, Cory and Cindy later got back together. In Where There's Smoke, she smokes.
- Madison, played by Rhyon Nicole Brown
- Madison is Cindy's best friend. She dislikes Cory and likes to call him "a big dummy". She also came in between Cory and William's friendship when she wanted Cory to drop William as a friend so that he could be popular and hang out with her, but Cory didn't want to and dropped her as a friend instead, leading her to dislike Cory. She was introduced in season two and appeared in three episodes, "Blue in the Face", "When In Dome", and "The Four Aces".
- Kayla, played by Spencer Locke.
Kayla is very pretty, She takes cotillion with Larry. She once had a crush on Cory. But in the episode, Mad Hot Cotillion, she falls in love with The Juicer.
[edit] Others
- Dr. Sleevemore played by Brian George
- Dr. Sleevemore is a psychic doctor who treats Raven's visions. He appeared in two episodes (one in season 1 and one in season 3). In the season one episode "Saving Psychic Raven", Raven started attending his Institute for Psychic Research, where she met other teen psychics just like her. Raven decides not to go to the institute at the end of the episode. Dr. Sleevemore is not seen nor mentioned again until the season three episode "Vision Impossible", when Raven has trouble with her visions and need help so he decides to pay a visit and help Raven.
- Boyz 'n Motion, played by Michael Copon, Ryan Hansen and Columbus Short
- The Boyz in Motion are a popular boy band comprised of Ricky, Tre, and JJJ (he states that the third 'J' is silent). They were first mentioned in earlier episodes "A Fish Called Raven", "A Goat's Tale", and "Extreme Cory" but weren't seen until the episode "Boyz 'N Commotion". In that episode, they spent a couple of nights at Raven's house because of all the chasing fans. Raven later got them to perform at an annual concert at Bayside. Ever since then Raven and "The Boys" have been close friends. In the episode "Be Prepared", Raven caused them to break up, then come back together for a music video Donna Cabonna was doing for Maria Shriver.
- William, played by Frankie Ryan Manriquez
- William is one of Cory's best friends. He is known to be very smart and loves ducks, afraid of girls, and can play the clarinet and piano. His classmates call him Captain Brainypants. He invents many different gadgets during different episodes like the remote controlled refrigerator opener. It has been said that William is younger than Cory but it is not known how much younger. In season four William is replaced with Larry because Cory was moving to middle school and it was believed that Frankie Manriquez looked to young to be in middle school. His character was also believed to be at least one grade younger than Cory. He did, However, appear in a recent episode, with Cory and the Boyz.
- Leonard Stevenson, played by James Micheal McCauley
- Leonard Stevenson is an old cooking rival of Victor's. They went to college together and competed with each other to be a better chef. Victor was always jealous of Leonard but it seems that Leonard was more the jealous one. Leonard is always smug, cocky, and always takes joy in watching Victor being jealous of him. In "Chef-Man and Raven", he and his teen daughter Julie (Shelley Buckner) competed against Victor and Raven on the cooking TV show "Captain Cook-off Challenge" while in "The Grill Next Door" he opened a knock off rival restaurant of Victor's next door called The Hill Grill. Whenever Chelsea hears his name she screams, but for some reason she only does in"Chef-Man and Raven".
- Stanley (played by Bobbe' J. Thompson
- Stanley is Eddie's next door neighbor,he has a huge crush on Raven and hates Eddie and Cory. He was originally brought in as love interest for Raven's next door neighbor, Sierra, but he was much more interested in Raven then later Loca. Stanley is rude, obnoxious, mean, sarcastic and chauvanistic to everyone. He is a young salesman usually tricking Cory into buying something that always end up going wrong. He is always trying to get Raven to like him, but he has now left her alone after seeing her kissing Andre in "Mr. Perfect". He loves cheese sandwiches and competed against Chelsea for the paddleball world record. He appears in mostly the third and fourth season episodes such as "Mr. Perfect", "Sister Act", "When 6021 Met 4267", "Driving Miss Lazy", and "The Four Aces".
- Sierra, played by Juliette Goglia
- Sierra is Raven's next door neighbor and is known to bother her. She has a crush on Stanley. Although Raven finds her annoying, she's not nearly as annoying as Stanley. Sierra only appeared in two episodes - "Stark Raven Mad" and "Opportunity Shocks".
- Sydney, played by Sydney Park
- Sydney is a girl at the community center whose mentor is Raven. When she first met Raven, she embarrassed her by insulting her. When Raven found out that Sydney was a foster child, their friendship grew. She is an aspiring comedian and performed at Cory's "Bro-Mitzvah". Raven and Sydney are now very close friends and even entered a Little Miss and Her Big Sis contest at the commmunity center. Even though Raven and Sydney are not actual sisters thay are often compared to sisters.
- Donna Cabonna, played by Anne-Marie Johnson
- Donna Cabonna is a world renowned fashion designer and Raven's boss. Her name is a parody of real-life designers Donna Karen and Dolce & Gabanna. She has a dog named Coco. In one episode in season four, she made Raven her brief personal assistant due to the fact that Tiffany had to go on a business trip. This caused Devon to Break-up with Raven, but they re-united afterwards. Donna has a boyfriend named Teddy (Richard Steven Horvitz), who is much shorter than her.
- Tiffany, played by Jodi Shilling
- Tiffany is Donna's main assistant and Raven's new nemesis. Ever since they met, Tiffany and Raven have never liked each other. On Raven's first day at the job (in the episode "Dues & Dont's"), Tiffany lied to Raven and said that she had a private office when it was really Donna Cabonna's office. They are now competing to be Donna's favorite assistant. She also shares many similarities with Muffy.
[edit] Animals
- Sam
- Sam is Chelsea's Basset Hound. He had the same name as a guy Chelsea liked.
- Lionel
- Lionel is Cory's pet rat. He sometimes has a whole Sub-Plot (And even some of the whole episode) revolving around him.
- Coco
- Coco is Donna Cabonna's dog. He/she doesn't like Raven, and is pretty much the only other living thing Donna cares about. He/she likes the same kind of dog food that Chelsea"s dog likes(Chelsea mentioned this in the episode Dues & Dont's)
- Hamster
- The hamster was never seen, but in the episode, Smell of Victory, Raven mentioned that Cory used to have a hamster, but it died. Lots of fans think that Lionel is a replacement since Cory might have missed that hamster so much.
[edit] Notable guest stars
| Characters | Raven Baxter • Chelsea Daniels • Cory Baxter • Eddie Thomas • Victor Baxter • Tanya Baxter • Devon Carter • Alana • Bianca • Donna Cabonna • List of Characters • Minor Characters |
|---|---|
| Notable episodes | List of episodes • When 6021 Met 4267 • That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana • Country Cousins • Save The Last Dance |
| Soundtracks | That's So Raven • That's So Raven Too! • That's So Raven Too Remixed! |
| Spin-offs | Cory in the House |
| Related | The Suite Life of Zack & Cody • Hannah Montana • It's a Laugh Productions, Inc. |
