Stephanie Tanner (Full House character)
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| Stephanie Tanner | |
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| First appearance | Our Very First Show |
| Last appearance | Michelle Rides Again, Part Two |
| Portrayed by | Jodie Sweetin Ikue Ōtani (Japanese version) |
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| Gender | Female |
| Family | Danny Tanner (Father) Pamela Tanner (Mother) D.J. Tanner (Sister) Michelle Tanner (Sister) Jesse Katsopolis (Uncle) Rebecca Donaldson (Aunt) Nicky Katsopolis (Cousin) Alex Katsopolis (Cousin) |
Stephanie Judith Tanner (b. January 14, 1982) is a character on the sitcom Full House, portrayed by Jodie Sweetin in the English version and Ikue Ōtani (the voice of Pikachu on Pokémon) in the Japanese version. Stephanie is the daughter of Pam and Danny Tanner, and is D.J.'s younger sister and Michelle's older sister. Sweetin played Stephanie from age 5 to age 13.
Biography
Stephanie often struggled with being the middle child, and even tried to get married when she was six, figuring a husband would have to pay attention to her. [1] She was the feistiest of the girls, a trait she inherited from her mother, and while she was a little wild in seasons six through eight - getting her ears pierced without permission, joyriding, etc. - she was still quite well behaved and very hard on herself when she did something wrong. She was very angry with herself for cutting off a lock of Jesse’s then long hair. [2] When she backed Joey’s car into the kitchen, [3] she ran away, wanting to change her name to Connie Chung, although once Jesse convinced her to return home and confess, she learned she’d be loved no matter what, a theme central to the show. Stephanie sometimes felt left out, not having a mother [4] but, like D.J, sees her Aunt Becky as a mother figure and is very close to her sisters.
Stephanie was very athletic, as she is seen scaling the curtains in the room she shares with D.J. in the first episode, and she pitches on a baseball team for two years. She also loves to dance and she performs ballet so well she has the chance to go to New York to a special school one summer, though she declines because it takes too much time from the other important aspects of her life. When Stephanie turned 13 she began dating a boy named Jamie [5].Stephanie loved spying and easedropping and getting into mischief. At first, she shared a room with her elder sister, but after a while her dad thought it would be better if she shared a room with her younger sister, Michelle. Stephanie had a bear, named Mr. Bear whom she took everywhere she went in the early series, and still went to bed with him until the end of the series.
Books
In the Full House books based on the show, that wild streak is not present in grades six and seven, the grades which overlap with seasons seven and eight of the TV series, but the character still has her trademark excitability and tendency to ramble, along with even an occasional "How rude!", her catchphrase from the early days of the show. The first Full House book independent of her was Phone Call From A Flamingo, and featured what would be a recurring theme in many Stephanie books, as she battles a rival gang of snobby girls in middle school. Other times, that excitability leads her to get into things way over her head, leading to comical results.
In books and TV, Stephanie is an excellent student, too; she could read at age four, and is an accomplished storyteller and journalist, especially in the books, where she takes after D.J. Stephanie also starred in a commercial while in kindergarten. The character of Stephanie is the most outwardly developed, perhaps, of any of the main characters, which is logical, considering that the show was originally to be built around Jodie Sweetin [citation needed], and still was at times in later years, even with the growing popularity of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.