| True Jackson | |
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| General Information | |
| Gender: | Female |
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| Age: | 15 (season 1) 16 (season 2) 17 (season 3) |
| Hair Color: | Brown |
| Eye Color: | Brown |
| Birthday: | November 12th 1993 |
| Height: | 5’4 |
| Occupation(s): | Student Mad Style Vice President of Youth Apparel (Pilot-Mystery in Peru) Mad Style President (Mystery in Peru-present) |
| Family & Friends | |
| Family: | Larry Jackson (father) Mrs. Jackson (mother) Troy (uncle) |
| Friends: | Lulu (best friend) Ryan Laserbeam (best friend) Oscar Mr. Madigan Shelly Jimmy Madigan |
| Relationships: | Jimmy Madigan (boyfriend) Justin (ex-boyfriend) |
| Pet(s): | Hercules: St. Bernard |
| Enemies: | Pinky Turzo |
| Other Information | |
| Interests: | Hanging out with her friends, fashion |
| Education: | 11th grader at P.S. 121-1/2 |
| Talent: | Designing & Making Clothes |
| Weaknesses: | Jimmy |
| Series Information | |
| First appearance: | Pilot |
| Last appearance: | Mystery in Peru |
| Portrayed By: | Keke Palmer |
True Jackson is the lead, main and titular character of True Jackson, VP, who works at a fashion company called Mad Style. Throughout the course of the series, she serves as vice president of the youth apparel division, but, in the finale, she becomes president of the company, after Max Madigan, the previous president, retires. She is first hired at age 15, when Mr. Madigan notices her wearing one of his designs, with a True Jackson twist.
Biography[]
Season 1[]
True Jackson's first appearance is in Pilot, where she was selling sandwiches with her best friend Ryan in the lobby of the Madigan Building, where Mad Style is housed. Max Madigan sees her outfit and is impressed, making her Vice President of Youth Apparel at Mad Style. True invites Ryan and her other best friend Lulu to help her out on her first day. True enjoys the job at first but later sees that most people from the company don't like her ideas and personality, particularly her co-worker, Amanda Cantwell. True considers quitting, but she instead changes her mind, after she is comforted by her boss' nephew, Jimmy, whom she develops a crush on. True fires her assistant, Cricket, and Lulu becomes her new one.
Later in Firing Lulu, when Lulu screws up one of True's projects, True has to decide whether to keep her as her assistant or give her the boot.
In Babysitting Dakota, True is forced to babysit a very high-maintenance model.
In Ryan on Wheels, when True has to design gear for skateboard phenom Ryan Sheckler, she and Lulu go undercover as boys to Ryan's all-boy skate club to do a little research.
In Telling Amanda, Ryan overhears Amanda's boyfriend making other plans for lunch so he, Lulu and True decide to follow him only to discover he's cheating on her.
In The Prototype, Lulu needs a dress for Handsome Academy's summer dance. True decides to lend Lulu a dress from the famous Mad Style dress vault, unaware that it is a one-of-a-kind prototype.
In ReTRUEnion, Amanda undergoes all sorts of beauty treatments in preparation for her High School reunion. Meanwhile, True, Ryan and Lulu come across Amanda's old yearbook and discover she was a nerd.
In the episode True Takes Iceland, when the head of the biggest retail chain in Iceland comes to visit Mad Style, Amanda and True compete to see whose design gets to be featured there.
In Fashion Week, True is determined to present her dream dress in the Young Designers Showcase during fashion week. But, Jobi was Amanda's old assistant who disapproves True's design. Meanwhile, Ryan brings his hamster Chewy to Mad Style, which causes chaos. Chewy runs over Kopelman, and gets into Mr. Madigan's piano. Thus, Ryan and Jimmy are forced to team up to get Chewy out of Mr. Madigan's office before any more trouble is caused.
In True Crush, When True is invited to the Last Minute Ball, Lulu and Ryan fight over who goes with her when she only has one extra ticket, but True actually wants to go with Jimmy. Meanwhile, Ryan uses a prank that he used in a dream to trick Amanda's new assistant, Laura. But, when Laura quits Ryan must perform Amanda's work without letting her know. Elsewhere, model Vivian overhears Amanda calling her an idiot and fools Amanda by acting like one. In the end, Jimmy and Vivian go to the Last Minute Ball together, and True, Lulu, Ryan and Amanda spend the night at Happy Berry Yum Yum.
In The Hotshot, Mr. Madigan hires another teen fashion designer for Mad Style called Jasper. Meanwhile, Lulu helps Ryan prepare for his history test by making it believe he's on a game show in his mind. True feels that Mr. Madigan cares more about Jasper than about her. But, True discovers that Jasper is a phony when he steals her "Back to School" design and gives it to Mr. Madigan. When Jasper becomes the new VP, he must present his design to the other VP's. When Mr. Madigan sees the design when it's not on paper he can tell that it is True's, not Jasper's, because of the lining. In the end Jasper gets fired.
In The Dance, when Mikey J doesn't ask Lulu to the Back-to-School Dance, she thinks that he and True are going out when she finds True dancing with him. But True confronts Lulu and tells her that she was teaching Mikey J how to dance.
Season 2[]
In the second and third episodes of season 2 (as well as a movie), Flirting With Fame, True falls head over heels for a new student named Justin, who ends up being rapper Lil' Shakesphere in disguise. The two are kept apart at first by his bodyguard Kayla, who doesn't think it's good for Justin to be involved in a romance at this time with his career. However, the two manage to date anyway, until Justin learns that he has to tour as Lil' Shakesphere in Europe for a year, ending his relationship with True. Soon, we find out Jimmy left flowers for True (not Justin, who she initially thought it was) because he really likes her and turns down a scholarship program for flight attendants because he wants to spend more time with True and other school work.
In the episode The Reject Room, True finds out that she has designed clothes that Mr. Madigan didn't like that ended up in the reject room. Frusturated, True seeks out to Mr. Madigan at first to see if he would fess up about "the reject room", but Madigan keeps lying about not liking some of True's clothes. Later on, an upset True tells Mr. Madigan about it and he tells True that many others working at Mad Style have had things end up in the reject room and to not get discouraged about it. He apologizes to True for lying to her and then says that a person isn't measured by how many successes they have, but how they handle they're failures and missteps, encouraging True to keep designing. True becomes the president of Mad Style after Max retires to take care of his child that he and Doris are expecting.
Personality[]
Despite being young and slightly naïve, True is shown to be good at her job. She is fairly intelligent and hard working. She is usually the most sensible person out of all her friends. She often comes up with new ideas for designs, and nearly everyone at the company is open to those ideas, save for Amanda. Also, True is generally willing to do the right thing (due to her good heart) and stands up for what she believes in, even if it's not the easiest thing to do and could mean losing her job. This is shown by her being willing to make her best effort not to let others get to her, such as Amanda. True generally displays a positive attitude, though will get cranky if one gets on her bad side and appreciates the fun times with her friends.
Love Interests[]
Jimmy[]
Jimmy is True Jackson's boyfriend, Max Madigan's nephew, and the mailman at Mad Style, whom True first met in the pilot. It is implied they've both had a crush on each other since then, albeit they kept it a secret for a while, then later revealed it. They officially become a couple in True Kiss, but, until the end of True Secret, decide to keep it a secret, due to Mr. Madigan's policy against co-workers dating, which he later abolishes.
Justin[]
Justin, a.k.a. Lil' Shakespeare, is True's famous ex-boyfriend, a rap star, whom she briefly dated in Flirting With Fame, before he left to go on tour in Europe. They were supposed to get back together later in that season, but it never happened as True started dating Jimmy.
Trivia[]
- Her family (i.e., her uncle Troy) is somewhat eccentric, and she tends to be reminded of them and tell others about the crazy situations they get involved in (like one of them getting struck by lightning).
Quotes[]
You say what now? |
Photoshoot Gallery[]
