| “ | We're pregnant. | ” |
— Rainbow to Andre
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Rainbow Sojourner "Bow" Johnson is one of the main characters from Black-ish and the main in Mixed-ish.
She is portrayed by Tracee Ellis Ross as an adult and by Arica Himmel as a teenager.
Character Info[]
Rainbow Johnson is an anesthesiologist, the wife of Dre Johnson and mother of Zoey, Junior, Diane, Jack and Devante Johnson.
History[]
After being born in a hospital, Bow lived and was raised in a commune for much of her early life until it was disbanded by the U.S. government when she was a young teenager. Afterwards, she and her family moved into her grandfather’s rental house.
Personality[]
She is fun and nice - usually, the person to put Dre and his craziness in his place. She does however have her flaws, such as her immense vanity, (she once missed a major medical emergency while snap chatting), her early desperate need to have her kids like her, as well as her unwillingness to back down, similar to Dre. As well this she has a low self esteem and craves praise because her father did not give her an adequate amount of praise as a child, (although this was touched upon only in one episode.).
She is a caring mother, defending them against Dre's totalitarian parenting style.
Politics[]
Firmly left-leaning, Bow considers herself to be a feminist. In fact, she co-hosted a Hillary Clinton fundraiser during her presidential campaign in 2008.
Personal Appearance[]
She is a beautiful bi-racial woman with a halo of African afro-like curls. Rainbow has almond eyes, sleek eyebrows, a slender nose, a heart-shaped face and a small notable mole on the right side of her face; just below her eye. In one episode, she said that she was Yoruba (Nigerian), Gaelic, and Mongol.
Trivia[]
- She was raised by an interracial hippie couple.
- Her surname was already Johnson before she and Dre were married.
- She speaks Spanish and French.
- She claims to be part Samoan.
- Bow took her mother's surname, "Johnson."
- She and her siblings have very unusual names - Johan and Santamaria
- She went to Brown University in Rhode Island.
- Bow is terrified of birds.
- She had a corgi growing up.
- Contradictory to this however, in Mixed-ish, there is no reference to Bow owning or having ever owned a corgi.
- She nearly flunked out of college, although this might have been hyperbole.
- She was dumped many times in college because she was so obsessed with her grades.
- Bow has met Rick Fox.
- As Rainbow's birthday is October 29, her zodiac sign is Scorpio.
- She was in labor with Jack and Diane for 42 hours.
Quotes[]
- "If I'm not black, can someone please tell my hair and my ass?"
- "We're pregnant."
- "Have you ever tried to change the world but only ended up sacrificing something you love?"
- "You can't make decisions just to prove someone's idea about you is wrong. You have to follow your heart, and when you do... you'll be a part of something you love for all the right reasons."
- ”I’m a doctor,I save lives.”
- ”We’re fine! I don’t need church meat!”
Gallery[]
To view the Rainbow Johnson gallery, click here.