In 1989 Raven auditioned for a movie titled “Ghost Dad” staring Bill Cosby. Although Raven didn’t get the part because of her age the casting directors from the movie admired her so much, they decided to introduce her to Mr. Cosby. Bill was so amazed by Raven and her talent and ability to memorize lines, he hired her to play his granddaughter Olivia Kendall on his show. Raven continued on The Cosby Show until its finale in 1992.

Raven soon moved on because immediately after that Raven signed her first record deal with MCA Records (she was the youngest artist ever to be signed to a major record label.) Her debut album was titled Here’s To Knew Dreams (1993) The album sprawled a hit single “That’s What Little Girls Are Made Of.” (produced by then unknown Missy Elliott) After promotion for the album had finished, Raven made the big move from New York to California to begin production on the second season of the hit series “Hanging With Mr. Cooper.” (1992-1997) Raven co-stared on that show for the next four years.

That next year Raven co-stared in “Dr. Dolittle.” (1998) She played Charisse, the daughter of Eddie Murphy’s character. That was Raven’s first movie to brake over a hundred million dollars. Next, once again Raven returned to music and recorded her second album Undeniable (1999). This time recording on her own label Ray-Blaze Records. That year Raven got a great opportunity and toured with N*Sync as their opening act. Later that same year Raven got her first encounter with Disney by co-starring along Kristen Storm in the made-for-TV, Disney Channel Original Movie “Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century.” (1999) Once filming for the movie had wrapped. Raven returned to Atlanta for the next year and focused on school.

In early 2001, Raven was called back to California to reprise her role as Charisse in the sequel to Dr. Dolittle which was another huge success. That sane year Raven got her big break courtesy of The Disney Channel, Raven had auditioned for a television series for the network then known as “Absolutely Physic.” She had originally got the role of the best friend but after testing and waiting for show to be approved by the network, Disney realized that Raven was the true gold behind the show, and they reworked the series casting Raven as the lead, whose character had physic ability and changed the name of the show from “Absolutely Physic” to That’s So Raven. After shooting the pilot and testing it to European and Canadian audiences. Disney realized they had a huge hit on their hands and continued production of the first season. The show finally debuted in the U.S. on January 17, 2003. The show was a huge success, quickly becoming the networks top rated series.

Earlier the year before, before That’s So Raven had aired in the US Raven got offered a chance to show off her other talent singing as she was casted as the lead in Disney’s first musical The Cheetah Girls. (2003) About a four girl quartet music group who have ambitious dreams of becoming stars. She was casted as Galleria Garibaldi, the lead singer of the group and the most determined. The movie also started Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan and Kiely Williams. The movie was an MEGA success and escalated all four girls carriers. The movies debut brought in an astonishing 6.5 million viewers (becoming the networks highest rated movie of its time.) The movies soundtrack also was an amazing success. It went on to become Double Platinum. Due to the success of the movie it is rumored that Disney decided to produce a “Cheetah Girls: The Series” short lived because soon after the first four episodes were shoot, the show was put on hiatus due to That’s So Raven being picked up for a new season. Eventually the series was cancelled for various reasons and the episodes of the series never aired.

In 2004 Raven’s busiest year yet, she was all over the place shooting movies such as The Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement, All American Girl (which was passed on in Late 2005.) A pilot series for ABC, filming That’s So Raven, co-hosting 106 & Park and attending events, all while recording her third album. At this point in Raven’s carrier, she was considered Disney’s cash cow, so it was only natural that Disney continued with more of Raven’s other talent singing. So Walt Disney Records released the That’s So Raven: Original Television Soundtrack in May 2004, the soundtrack was a success, having the biggest debut of a Disney Channel Original Television Soundtrack (at its time), the soundtrack today has been certified gold (According to the RIAA.) Four months later Raven released her longley anticipated third album This Is My Time on Disney’s record label Hollywood Records. Her first single “Backflip” reached #1 on the Radio Disney - Top 30 Countdown, and got video airplay on The Disney Channel and BET. The album (today) is certified gold (According to ‘The Hollywood Reporter’)

In the summer of 2005 Raven kicked off her first headlining tour. The nationally sold-out tour kicked off in Orlando, Florida at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. Earlier that year Raven shoot her most dramatic movie to date for Lifetime titled “For One Night” (2006) about a girl who integrates her school prom. Raven also contributed to the Disney Mania 3 Soundtrack, and began to film the final season of That’s So Raven. At this time That’s So Raven has made Disney Channel history. Usually a Disney Channel series only has a 65 episode commitment but after having its third season extended and being picked up for a fourth season the show has made it to 100 episodes, due to its amazing ratings, making it the longest show of the networks history. Also it’s franchise of clothes makeup, perfume, bed sheets, dolls, CD’s, DVD’s, etc… has made a profit of 400 Million dollars and is expected to reach 1 Billion dollars by the end of 2008. Making it also Disney’s most successful franchise of all time.

By 2006 Raven had finished production for That’s So Raven, completed and released a second That’s So Raven soundtrack “That’s So Raven Too!” She had also filmed and released 2 huge films including Everyone’s Hero, an animated comedy, about a boy who goes on a mission to save Babe Ruth’s bat, which debuted at #3 in its first week Box Office Sales. And also went to Barcelona, Spain to film the sequel to Disney’s huge hit The Cheetah Girls, The Cheetah Girls 2, which pulled in an amazing 7.9 million viewers it opening night, pulling over a million more viewers than its original movie. And its movie soundtrack debuted at an unexpected #5 on the Billboard’s Top 200 Charts, and is certified platinum. And with all this you’d think Raven would take a brake, nope. In the summer of 2006 Raven kicked off her second headlining, nationally sold out concert tour.

The year of 2008 brought another busy year for Raven. She starred opposite Martin Lawrence in the box-office smash College Road Trip. As well as release her fourth and most mature self-titled album Raven-Symoné. In Summer 2008, Raven took the stage once again on yet-another summer tour across the country. Will this girl ever slow down!, we fans sure hope not and as Holly Robinson-Pete (a former co-star of Raven’s) stated in Raven’s Ebony cover story magazine issue were all looking forward to watching her bright future with sunglasses on!

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