Karen Rooney

Karen Rooney is the mother of Liv, Maddie, Joey, and Parker Rooney. Karen is also the wife of Pete Rooney. She is the Vice Principal at her kids' high school, Ridgewood High.

Karen is portrayed by Kali Rocha.

Personality
Karen is Liv, Maddie, Joey and Parker's mother, and is the wife of Pete Rooney. She is the Vice Principal at Ridgewood High and a working mom of her four children. Karen is the ideal mom to manage the competing personalities of her twins, Liv and Maddie. She is shown to be a nice and thoughtful mother but can be overprotective of her children. She tends to take the fact that they are a family more seriously than the others. Basically, she wants to know what the kids are thinking and let them be a family.

Background
Karen married Pete Rooney and had four children: Liv, Maddie, Joey and Parker.

Appearance
Karen has hazel eyes and medium and wavy dark brown hair. She is usually dressed in more professional clothes than her husband, but when she is not working, she dresses more casual and comfortable.

Strengths

 * She seems to be a good mother to her children.
 * She seems to be a kind and nice lady.
 * According to the episode Twin-A-Rooney, she created 'Family Meetings' to give a chance to the kids to share their feelings.
 * She is very smart and cunning, as she and Evan successfully tricked Parker into doing his chores.
 * She can play the flute.

Weaknesses

 * She is afraid of clowns, which is a weakness because Parker wanted to keep Peppino the clown.
 * She is afraid of pigs as well.
 * She seems to be very attached to tiny things (She calls it being sentimental while Maddie calls it hoarding).

Pete Rooney
(Husband)

Pete is Karen's husband. They love each other a lot and work together as staff members of Ridgewood High.

Liv Rooney
(Daughter)

Liv cares about her mother but she thinks she is no actress, Liv also helps Karen as shown in Sleep-A-Rooney.

Maddie Rooney
(Daughter)

Maddie and her mom get along okay but sometimes they clash. Karen thought that Maddie stole some sunglasses when it was Liv as shown in Steal-A-Rooney.

Joey Rooney
(Son)

In the first episode Twin-A-Rooney Joey sits outside the room (brocave) to keep their mom from getting in, although it is shown that they love each other.

Parker Rooney
(Son)

In the first episode Twin-A-Rooney when Parker breaks the fridge he said to go to Vegas. Parker and Karen get along okay, but sometimes Parker's ego gets in the way.