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Raven-Symoné (aka Raven) stars as Raven Baxter, a confident, charismatic and occasionally clairvoyant teen who can see just enough of the future to compel her on comical misadventures to try and change it, in Disney Channel's original hit comedy series That's So Raven. Raven was named producer for the series' fourth season in production now.

Concurrent with her leading role on "That's So Raven," she plays the voice of Monique, a recurring role on Disney Channel's animated action/comedy Kim Possible. Raven also headlined in the blockbuster Disney Channel Original Movie "The Cheetah Girls" and will film its sequel next year.

Born in Atlanta, Raven-Symoné began her career in the entertainment industry at the age of three. Best known as the adorable Olivia from the long-running hit series The Cosby Show and Nicole in "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper," she also appears as Eddie Murphy's rebellious daughter Charisse in Dr. Dolittle and Dr. Dolittle 2.

She began her association with Disney Channel when she starred in the popular Disney Channel Original Movie "Zenon" and reprised that role in "Zenon: Z3." Raven-Symoné can also be seen in Walt Disney Studios' The Princess Diaries 2 and she has the leading role in the Lifetime movie "For One Night," premiering next year.

For her work in "That's So Raven," she won the prestigious NAACP Image Award in the category Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Program for the past two years. She also won the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for Favorite TV Actress in 2004 and 2005. "That's So Raven" was nominated for a primetime Emmy Award in 2005.

The multi-faceted teen is also a recording artist and her third solo album "This is My Time" was released in 2004 on Hollywood Records. She performs on the gold-certified soundtracks for "That's So Raven" and the double platinum-soundtrack for "The Cheetah Girls" which was 2004's #2 selling soundtrack. Raven-Symoné released her first hit single, "That's What Little Girls Are Made Of," when she was age five. That same year, she debuted on Broadway with the Boys Choir of Harlem for their 25th Anniversary celebration. She toured with N'Sync to support her second CD, "Undeniable."

She is a humanitarian who addresses issues of concern to children. She served as an ambassador for former Secretary of State Colin Powell's "Children First" program and speaks on behalf of the National Safe Kids Campaign, a program encouraging home safety for families.

Considered a "normal kid" by entertainment standards, Raven-Symoné lives in Los Angeles, enjoys jet skiing, has a passion for cooking and loves to sketch and paint.
(courtesy of ABC) Raven-Symone earned a fond place in the hearts of Cosby Show fans around the world when she joined the cast of that seminal '80s sitcom as pint-sized Olivia Kendall, the daughter of Lt. Martin Kendall (Joseph C. Phillips) and Denise Huxtable Kendall (Lisa Bonet) during the hit program's sixth season. The series wrapped within a few years of Symone's enlistment, but the young actress continued her ascent by establishing herself as a force to be reckoned with in the multiple venues of television, pop music, and feature film. Born in Atlanta, GA, in December 1985, Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman began modeling diapers at the age of two and landed the Cosby assignment by the age of three. By 1993 (one year after Cosby took its final bow), Symone had joined the cast of yet another sitcom, ABC's Hangin' With Mr. Cooper (1992-1997), then a year into production; she would remain with Cooper until it folded in 1997, but in the mean time branched off into another venue altogether as an R&B recording artist. MCA quickly signed her and issued her rap-infused album Here's to New Dreams in 1993; unfortunately, it failed to connect with a sizeable audience, and it would be six years before Symone emerged with a sophomore recording, the R&B-flavored Undeniable (1999). That album unabashedly showcased the young performer's desire to become a teen pop sensation, and revealed her vocal skills much more transparently than its predecessor, as did its follow-up efforts. Meanwhile, Symone landed bit parts and supporting roles in movies, including Dr. Dolittle (1998) and Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001); she also voiced the character of Monique on the animated television series Kim Possible (2002) and headlined her own Disney Channel sitcom, That's So Raven. The smash program cast Symone as a 15-year-old girl whose gaffes get her family into a seemingly endless series of outrageous difficulties. Symone then starred in the hit telemovies The Cheetah Girls and The Cheetah Girls 2, lent a supporting role to the theatrical feature The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), and signed to star in the big-screen outing College Road Trip, opposite funnyman Martin Lawrence. In that comedy, Symone plays a young woman on a college-scouting trip with her policeman father. Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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