Raven is a supporting character in The Secret Life of the American Teenager, introduced in Season 4. She is portrayed by Christian Serratos.
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Raven is the ex-girlfriend of Daniel and a friend to Dylan, Wendy and Mercedes and is the enemy of Grace Bowman, whom she met at Jesse’s graduation party.
At the party, Raven can be seen eyeing up Daniel, which makes him and Grace a little uncomfortable. When Jack Pappas approaches her, she reveals her intentions of going up to Daniel and upon realising that it would allow him to be with Grace, Jack agrees to help her out.
After snapping a quick picture of Jack and Grace kissing the morning after the party, she emails it to Daniel in the hope that he would break up with Grace, which he does. Raven then gets back with Daniel though it is unclear how the relationship went.
When Ben Boykewich cannot make his date with Dylan, Raven goes along with the rest of the gang right to Ben’s house to get some sort of an explanation. Raven, and everyone except Wendy, then smokes weed in Ben’s room and lets Ben take the fall when they get caught by Leo Boykewich and Dylan’s parents.parents.
In order to help Dylan with her relationship with Ben, Raven agrees to go out with Jack and despite her thinking he is quite hot, she admits that she definitely does not love him and is only seeing him in order to get some inside information.
Despite being very good friends with Dylan, she was quite outspoken about Ben not being the right guy for Dylan, with her calling him a ‘dork’, since she felt that Ben was still not over his past loves - Amy Underwood and Adrian Lee.
When Raven finds out from Dylan about the fire and the latter’s involvement in the incident, Raven makes light of the situation and cracks a few jokes at Dylan’s expense. However, when Dylan’s mother walks in asking if something was wrong, Raven hastily leaves, leaving Dylan to deal with her mother alone.
After it became clear that the fire had rendered the school unusable and unsafe, Raven joined Ulysses S. Grant High School along with her friends but along with Dylan and Mercedes, she relocated to an all girls school to be with Wendy who had already left but they all hated it there.