Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins (2024)

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Are Penny and Maya friends? ›

Penny has made a myriad of friends on the show and even away from the show, but she spends most of her time hanging out with Dijonay Jones, LaCienega Boulevardez, Zoey Howzer, Sticky Webb, Michael Collins and Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins, each of whom she is very loyal to.

She is the adopted daughter of an interracial gay married couple Barry and Randall Leibowitz-Jenkins. She is also KG Leibowitz-Jenkins' twin sister.

Voiced By. Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins is a recurring character in the revival series The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder. She is a young activist who is "extremely mature for her age" and relentlessly marches to the beat of her own drum. She is voiced by Keke Palmer.

Francis "KG" Leibowitz-Jenkins is a character in the revival series The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder. He is the adopted son of Barry and Randall Leibowitz-Jenkins and younger brother of Maya.

Josh is Maya's friend and romantic interest. Maya started to like Josh instantly in Girl Meets Home for the Holidays, but he never felt the same way.

Penny Proud (voiced by Kyla Pratt, sung by Tone Loc in "Snackland", Logan Browning as an adult in "When You Wish Upon a Roker"): The main protagonist of the series, a 14-year-old African-American girl who is usually embarrassed by her father, Oscar.

Penny Proud (voiced by Kyla Pratt)

Much to her father's chagrin, 14-year-old Penny also has a new boyfriend, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Brown (voiced by Asante Blackk).

Kyla Pratt is returning for the revival as the voice of Penny Proud. Pratt is best known for her roles as Maya Dolittle in the "Dr. Dolittle" sequels. Penny is the protagonist of the series, a 14-year-old girl who is trying to live her life to the full, despite her strict parents.

Oscar Proud (voiced by Tommy Davidson) is the overprotective father of Penny, BeBe and CeCe, husband of Trudy, younger brother of Bobby Proud and son of Suga Mama.

LaCienega Boulevardez is a supporting character from Disney Channel's The Proud Family. She is Penny's rival and later frenemy.

Why is Suga Mama mean to Oscar? ›

She does love him but is terrible at showing it, often giving him emotional abuse or a lack of respect rather than genuine love and attention. It is revealed that Suga Mama unconsciously treated Oscar like this because she dealt with a similar experience when she was a kid.

The front of Wizard Kelly's face is never shown in any of the episodes. Instead, the shot is awkwardly angled so that he can only be seen from the neck down; but his face has made two separate appearances. Once in the "Sista Spice" episode, and in The Proud Family Movie when they were swept by the peanut butter.

Dijonay Jones (voiced by Karen Malina White) is Penny Proud's sassy, enthusiastic best friend who knows her best. Dijonay is loyal at heart and is often the first to come to Penny's aid and encourages her other friends to do the same.

Perfect To Learn Your Child About Puberty And Being Different. The Proud Family is an amazing cartoon fo children, there aint anything inappropriate in it. The show starts of with Penny and her other friends experiencing puberty, which is an amazing thing to see in a cartoon.

Dijonay Jones (voiced by Karen Malina White) is Penny's selfish and untrustworthy yet enthusiastic and caring best friend. She has an obsessive crush on Sticky. She also loves to gossip and has gotten Penny in trouble many times.

LaCienega Boulevardez is a much deeper character than what we as viewers often see on the surface. This is LaCienega Boulevardez, Penny Proud's close friend/arch-rival. Many of us see her as just some snobby mean girl bitch who hates Penny Proud and wants to see her fail, but that is actually far from the truth.

Penny was feeling proud because his son Jody saved his life by treating him when he had been bitten by a rattlesnake.