Reagan Gomez-Preston

Biography

Reagan Amyre Gomez-Preston is an American television and film actress and voice actress. She played the role of Zaria Peterson on The WB sitcom The Parent ‘Hood and Roberta Tubbs on Fox animated comedy The Cleveland Show. She has also reprised the role of Roberta Tubbs in occasional Family Guy appearances.

Gomez-Preston was born in Detroit, Michigan to a Puerto Rican mother, Cheryl Gomez, and an African American father, Bennett Preston. She has a younger brother named Kyle.

Gomez-Preston’s father, Bennett Preston, is a medical examiner/pathologist in Philadelphia. When Gomez-Preston was young her mother worked for the Detroit Police Department. Cheryl Gomez moved the family to Philadelphia. There Gomez-Preston was enrolled in acting, dancing, and singing lessons at Philadelphia’s Freedom Theatre. Her parents eventually divorced. In 1994, she moved from Philadelphia to Los Angeles with her mother and Kyle, so that Gomez-Preston could pursue an acting career.

Gomez-Preston began her acting career in The Parent ‘Hood, as Zaria Peterson. She guest starred on UPN’s One on One as Flex’s younger sister/Brianna’s aunt, Bernadette. Also, she was a guest host of the weekly music series Soul Train, aired in April 1996. She also played Francine opposite Holly Robinson Peete in the short-lived UPN sitcom, Love Inc. She is also a former cast member of The Amanda Show.

She voiced Roberta Tubbs, Cleveland Brown’s stepdaughter on the animated series The Cleveland Show from 2009 until the show’s cancellation in 2013. Since 2014, she has had a recurring voice-over role as the twin sisters Jenny and Kiki Pizza on the animated Cartoon Network television series Steven Universe and in 2016, she began a recurring role on Queen Sugar as Chantal Williams.

Gomez-Preston began dating model DeWayne Turrentine in 1995. Turrentine was a member of the hip hop duo Quo. The couple married on November 10, 1999. They have two children, a daughter, Scarlett Annette Turrentine (born May 13, 2007) and a son Tyger Attila Turrentine (born April 2, 2011).