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Billie is the main protagonist and one of the main characters in the Disney Channel Original Series Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. She is Winter's Best Friend. She is a powerful young wizard-in-training who gets sent to live in the mortal world to live with the only wizard teacher that can teach her how to control her powers Justin Russo, the former Headmaster at WizTech. She is portrayed by Janice LeAnn Brown.
Background[]
Billie is a special wizard who requires her power to be controlled carefully, but the reasons are not yet fully known. The Wizard Tribunal wants to take Billie's wand away from her. Billie's last chance is with Justin Russo as her wizard teacher.
Personality[]
Billie is a powerful young Wizard-in-training who is funny, mischievous, spunky, rebellious, stubborn, sarcastic, and self-centered and uses magic irresponsibly or for selfish reasons much like Alex Russo, with a lack of discipline.
Physical Appearance[]
Billie is a young African-American girl who has brown hair in box braids, brown eyes and medium skin.
Powers & Abilities[]
Powers
- Spell Casting: Despite her young age, Billie has proven to be capable of casting advanced and very powerful magic spells.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Billie was born sometime in the 2010s to an unknown Wizard family. Every Wizard Teacher before Justin gave up on her.
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place[]
Season One[]
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Relationships[]
Family[]
- "I feel like I’m growing as Janice LeAnn Brown so it feels like an honor to be able to play her– especially since I have so much in common with her – from like family things and all of that stuff, because I’m adopted by my grandparents, so they’re my found family. The Russos are Billie’s found family."
- ―Janice LeAnn Brown on Billie's family.[2]
Not much is known about Billie's family except that she has a trust issues with family. She's been from family to family and has been kicked out many times.
Friends[]
Winter (best friend)
Winter is Billie's bubbly, quirky and oversharing best friend.
See Also: Billie and Winter
Nerissa (friend)
Billie first met Nerissa at WizTech. At some point they became friends. Before Billie got kicked of WizTech, they were known as "The Chaos Queens" because they caused a lot of trouble when they were both students at WizTech. In Ain't Gnome Party Like a Wizard Party, Billie tells her mortal best friend Winter when they are hanging out that in the Wizard World she had this cool friend named Nerissa at WizTech. Shortly after Billie tells Winter about her friend Nerissa from WizTech, Billie gets a WandTime (Wizard term for FaceTime) call from Nerissa because she put a gossip spell where she can hear every time mentions her name.
Justin Russo (friend/guardian/mentor/Wizard Teacher/Father Figure)
Justin is Billie’s wizard teacher, who she often gets on the nerves of and drives crazy due to her using magic irresponsibly or for selfish reasons.
In Everything is Not What it Seems, Billie first meets Justin Russo on his 34th birthday when his younger sister Alex Russo takes her to the mortal world to go visit her older brother Justin to convince him to be Billie's new Wizard Teacher after getting kicked out of WizTech. When Alex forces Billie to enter Justin's house through the front door like a normal person does instead of walking through a mirror Justin opens the front door and is very confused who is this random girl that just walked in his house. Then when Alex Russo first arrives at her older brother Justin's house with Billie on his 34th birthday, he asks Alex if her and Billie came here to surprise him on his birthday.
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See Also: Billie and Roman
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See Also: Billie and Milo
- "Two days and she is already my favorite."
- ―Giada about Billie.
Billie first meets Giada when Billie is sent to the mortal world to live with the only wizard teacher Giada's husband Justin Russo who can teach her how to control her powers. After knowing Giada for only 2 days, Giada refers to Billie as her "favorite" in front of her sons Roman and Milo Russo.
In We're Gonna Need a Bigger Float, Billie first meets Jerry when she goes to the Spell hotline for help on her wizard homework. At the time Billie had no idea that Jerry was her Wizard teacher Justin Russo's father until Justin introduces Billie to his father in The Russo Family Lair.
Nemesis[]
Quotes[]
"I'm a Wizard with style."
Episode Appearances[]
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place[]
Season 1[]
- Everything is Not What it Seems (first appearance)
- Mortal Vibes Only
- Saved by the Spell
- Something Wizard This Way Comes
- Wizards Just Wand to Have Fun
- The Legend of Creepy Follows
- We're Gonna Need a Bigger Float
- You Can't Handle the Tooth!
- Wiz-Taken Identity
- Ain't Gnome Party Like a Wizard Party
- Potions Eleven
- Battle of the Wands
- There's Something About the Russos
- Ready Player Wand
- Quest Birthday Ever!
- While You Were Sleepcasting
- Abraca-Disaster!
- Hit Me With Your Best Bot
Trivia[]
- Billie keeps her Wand in her sleeves.
- According to Janice LeAnn Brown who plays Billie revealed in an interview that she named Billie's wand "Bobby" because she thinks that Billie would just give her wand a causal name.
- The fans have gave Billie the name Billie Russo as she is living with the Russo's and is apart of the family.
- Billie's real surname remains unknown to the audience.
- According to Janice LeAnn Brown, said in an interview that the Russo Family are Billie's found family.
- Although according to a preliminary description of the show (also shared on Reddit), her birth last name is "van Heusen", although it has not been confirmed as canon within the program, in addition to that description, Billie is mentioned as Justin's long-lost daughter, something that was ruled out in the final show and Billie is not related to the Russos.
- Billie has many similarities to Alex Russo, as both are rebellious, sarcastic, and are known to use magic irresponsibly or for selfish reasons. Billie is also similar to Giada Russo growing up.
- Billie got kicked out of WizTech.
- Billie has been kicked out of every home she ever lived in before she moved in with the Russo Family.
- Billie has a fear of being abandoned.
- Giada decorated Billie's room with items she was told Billie likes such as merchandise from the Washington Wizards of the NBA, objects representing the state of Wisconsin, and a poster of comedian Wanda Sykes.
- However, although she doesn't know what they represent, Billie states she loves the way her room turned out.
- Unlike the Russo siblings, Billie was born in the Wizard World.
- Billie's favorite holiday is Halloween.[3]
- In Ain't Gnome Party Like a Wizard Party, Billie reveals that in the Wizard World she had this friend named Nerissa at WizTech that she got into a lot of trouble with.
- In Quest Birthday Ever!, Billie celebrates her 13th birthday.
- In While You Were Sleepcasting, it was revealed that Billie has to wear headgear when she sleeps to stop her from spell casting in her sleep that looks like retainer headgear.