Reba (TV series)

Synopsis

Cast and characters

Main

• Reba McEntire as Reba Hart: a single mom who struggles with taking care of everyone in her house after her husband divorces her for his dental hygienist. She is temperamental and prone to sarcastic remarks, but Reba can also be kind and caring, and is usually the sensible one. Though she frequently moves between jobs, she eventually settles in as a real estate agent.
• Christopher Rich as Brock Hart: Reba's ex-husband, a dentist and golfer, who leaves her for his much younger, pregnant, dental hygienist, Barbra Jean. He is vain, addicted to tanning, and tries to convince everyone that he is still young. Brock sometimes shows regret for his divorce from Reba because of all the chaos it causes his children. His marriage with Barbra Jean is rocky, due to his selfishness and impetuousness, but he is in love with her.
• JoAnna García as Cheyenne Hart: Reba and Brock's oldest daughter and Kyra and Jake's sister, who initially is looking forward to her senior year of high school before learning she is pregnant. She marries Van, who moves into Reba's house after his parents disown him. She goes into labor on graduation day. She can be somewhat air-headed and self-centered, but she can also be thoughtful and kind-hearted. She is very sensitive, especially when she is insulted. Her work ethic and sense of responsibility improve as she raises her daughter and study in college. Cheyenne also begins volunteering at a homeless shelter, greatly reducing her shallowness. When she comes to the realization that she is an alcoholic, she's inspired to discontinue dentistry as her major, and instead decides to study counseling for those affected by alcohol and drugs. She is truly her mother's daughter and cares greatly for her entire family.
• Steve Howey as Van Montgomery: The star cornerback of his high school's football team, and Cheyenne’s boyfriend. When Cheyenne becomes pregnant with his child, Van’s parents kick him out of the house. He consequently marries Cheyenne and moves in with her at Reba's house, and his future in professional sports looks bright until an injury to his tailbone reveals that he has spinal stenosis. He works to recover his life after the loss of his football career, and he eventually becomes a successful real estate agent in a partnership with Reba. Van is portrayed as a big goof and is not good with words, especially when it comes to Cheyenne. Kyra loves making fun of him. He also bonds with Jake, though they grow more antagonistic towards each other as Jake grows closer to his teen years. He cares deeply for his in-laws, especially Reba, for taking him in and caring for him in his darkest hours. His relationship with his parents remains strained throughout the series, and they never truly make up.
• Scarlett Pomers as Kyra Hart: Reba and Brock's middle daughter, and Jake's older sister. She has the fewest emotional issues of the family. Many of her traits and looks come from Reba, including her sharp wit and knack for sarcasm, although she's known to be more manipulative and difficult. Kyra has a constant need for this because while she would like to live the life of a normal teenager, Reba, Brock, and Barbra Jean constantly saddle her with adult responsibilities and severely meddle in her social life. Therefore, she always feels that she's being punished for the bad choices of the dim-witted Cheyenne and Van. In the final season, she decides not to go to college and to focus on her music. Kyra also likes teasing Van, annoying Cheyenne, and bullying Jake. During season 5, she appears in only two episodes toward the beginning of the season, due to Scarlett Pomers' real-life battle with anorexia. She returns at the beginning of Season 6.
• Mitch Holleman as Jake Hart: Reba and Brock's youngest son. He is often teased by his big sister Kyra. In earlier seasons, Jake sometimes is seen in only one scene where he cracks a joke or mentions something that involves the current topic. Jake is pretty oblivious of what goes on around him and has a habit of saying the first thing that comes to his mind without thinking. He acts like a normal boy for his age, although in earlier seasons he displays feminine characteristics that worry his father, Brock.
• Melissa Peterman as Barbra Jean Hart: Barbra Jean, also known by her initials "BJ", was Brock's dental hygienist and had an affair with him as his marriage to Reba was deteriorating. She is also Brock's current wife, and Reba's best friend. Barbra Jean gets pregnant, though Brock and Reba are not divorced yet. Her comically religious behavior is phased out over the course of the first season. Barbra Jean is more intelligent than Van, but is more oblivious than Jake and is often an easy target for Reba's sarcasm. She is intimidated by Reba's parenting skills and history with Brock, and she spends much of the series desperately trying to earn Reba's friendship, much to the latter's constant annoyance. While noisy and eccentric, she is a kind-hearted person with good intentions, and by the end of the series Reba reluctantly admits that Barbra Jean is a good friend. Her tendency to tell "over-the-top" tales results in her sharing many random and often bizarre facts about her childhood and past. The most that can be understood is that she was born in Friendly, Texas, and was known as "the biggest baby in Juno County". She has a sister, currently married, a brother named "Buzzard" and a father who enjoys drinking and hunting. Brock is afraid of both Buzzard and Big Daddy because he knows they don't like him. BJ also claims to have an aunt who spits professionally. In the last season, she loses a considerable amount of weight and becomes a weather girl with a public-access television cable station. Her meteorological expertise comes from the fact that her "butt-rometer" can accurately predict rain ever since she was struck by lightning in her Be-dazzler-studded backside in 1982. In the last episode, she trades up to her station's roving news reporter, calling her segment "Babs Janson: Street Walker".
• Alena & Gabrielle Leberger as Elizabeth Montgomery: Elizabeth is the daughter of Van and Cheyenne. Elizabeth rarely speaks, but is sometimes shown in a family member's arms or running around. She is a happy child who is often shown giggling. In the second-season episode "And the Grammy Goes to...", it is revealed that Van indeed named the baby after the star of Bewitched.
• Alexander & Jackson McClellan as Henry Hart: Brock and Barbra Jean's son and younger half-brother of Cheyenne, Kyra, and Jake. He sometimes displays bad behavior, which leads Reba to believe that Barbra Jean is a bad parent.

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Cancellation