‘Reba:’ The Guest Stars You Forgot Joined the WB Sitcom
Reba McEntire’s fans are getting a treat on May 6: Netflix will start streaming all six seasons of her WB sitcom Reba that day. (Even better? Reba’s Netflix debut comes as the country star develops an NBC comedy pilot with three of the show’s executive producers.)
In Reba, McEntire played Reba Hart, a single Houston mom raising her three kids and facing the prospect of becoming a young grandmother… all while dealing with her ex-husband and his (much younger) new wife.
You know what they say: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Oops, did we just quote a lyric from a song by Reba guest star Kelly Clarkson? That singer-turned-daytime-host is just one of many famous faces who joined the fray across Reba’s 127 episodes. Scroll down to see others.
James Avery
After starring as Judge Philip Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, this late actor took the bench again on Reba, playing Judge Samuel Bennett in Season 2’s “The Feud.”
Kenneth Choi
Now a firefighter on 9-1-1, Choi portrayed a different kind of first responder when he appeared as Officer Aoki in Season 1’s “Brock’s Swan Song.”
Kelly Clarkson
This pop star joined McEntire, her future stepmother-in-law, on the show in 2007. She played a “rookie weather girl from Oklahoma,” as Barbra Jean (Melissa Peterman) put it.
Patrick Duffy
Duffy traded Dallas for Houston when he guest-starred as Dr. Joe Baker, Barbra Jean’s therapist, in Reba’s fourth-season episode “Couples’ Therapy.”
Shanola Hampton
Now headlining the TV drama Found, Hampton played Marci in Season 1’s “The Steaks Are High,” sharing the screen with future Shameless costar Steve Howey.
Leslie Jordan
This late Will & Grace scene-stealer recurred as Terry — a man who, improbably, seeks football lessons with Van (Howey) — in Seasons 2 and 3.
Katrina Law
Nearly two decades before starting her NCIS tenure, Law guest starred as homecoming queen contender Morgan Brooks in Season 1’s “The King and I.”
Tim Meadows
In one of his post-Saturday Night Live TV roles, Meadows played a major real estate dealer who wants to hire Van in Season 6’s “Just Business.”
Niecy Nash
Now an Emmy-winning TV star known for her roles in Dahmer and The Rookie: Feds, Nash played Lamaze instructor Maya in Season 1’s “He’s Having a Baby.”
Brandy Norwood
WB shows collided when this Moesha actor voiced a Hollywood star who mistakenly calls the Hart household in the first-season installment “She Works Hard for Their Money.”
Dolly Parton
This country star — who recently collaborated with McEntire on a new version of the duet “Does He Love You” — guest-starred as real estate agent Dolly Majors in Season 4’s “Reba’s Rules of Real Estate.”
Jo Marie Payton
Payton, a star of Family Matters, popped up in Season 5’s “No Good Deed,” playing Grandma Ruby, one of the members of a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Zach Roerig
Roerig was only a few years out from his Vampire Diaries fame when he guest-starred on Reba in 2006 in the role of a wedding guest at Cheyenne and Van’s wedding.
Sarah Shahi
This star of Sex/Life took on two roles on the show: Kate in Season 3’s “To Tell the Truth” and Bridget in Season 6’s “Cheyenne’s Rival.” She and Howey were married between 2009 and 2021.
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