Reagan Gomez-Preston
Reagan Gomez-Preston is an American television, film and voice actress. She is known for her roles as Zaria Peterson on The WB sitcom The Parent 'Hood and Roberta Tubbs on the FOX animated comedy The Cleveland Show. Gomez-Preston also starred in the short-lived UPN sitcom Love, Inc. in the 2005-2006 season as Francine.
Early life
Gomez-Preston was born in Detroit, Michigan to a Puerto Rican mother, Cheryl Gomez and an African American father, Dr. Bennett Preston. She has a younger brother named Kyle.When Gomez-Preston was young, her mother worked for the Detroit Police Department. Due to verbal abuse, written racist epithets, death threats, and a commanding officer expressing interest in a relationship with her, she filed a sexual harassment suit against the Detroit Police Department, which she won, receiving an award somewhere between $800,000 and $1.2 million. After this Cheryl Gomez moved the family to Little Rock, Arkansas, then to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, Gomez-Preston was enrolled in acting, dancing, and singing lessons at Philadelphia's Freedom Theatre.
Career
At 14 years old, Gomez-Preston began her acting career in The WB sitcom The Parent 'Hood, as Zaria Peterson. She guest starred on UPN's One on One as Flex's younger sister/Breanna's aunt, Bernadette. Also, she was a guest host of the weekly music series Soul Train, aired in December 1995. She also played Francine opposite Holly Robinson Peete in the short-lived UPN sitcom, Love Inc. She is also a former cast member of Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show. She has been featured in King magazine twice, first in the September/October 2003 issue, and again in the December 2006/January 2007 issue. She was one out of five cover girls in her second appearance. She also appeared in music videos such as "Sorry 2004" by Ruben Studdard, "No Better Love" by Young Gunz, and "Whatever You Like" by T.I.Gomez-Preston is a writer of feature films, with her own business and production company. She voiced List of [The Cleveland Show characters#Roberta Tubbs|Roberta Tubbs], Cleveland Brown's stepdaughter on the FOX animated sitcom The Cleveland Show from 2009 until the show's cancellation in 2013. Since Cleveland returned to Family Guy in the 2014 episode "He's Bla-ack!", Roberta has not had a single line.
She had a recurring voice-over role as the twin sisters List of [Steven Universe characters#Humans|Jenny and Kiki Pizza] on the animated Cartoon Network television series Steven Universe and in 2016, she began a recurring role on the OWN television drama Queen Sugar as Chantal Williams.