Rebecca "Becky" Conner Healy (played by both Lecy Goranson and Sarah Chalke) is the oldest daughter of Dan and Roseanne Conner. She is the sister of Darlene, D.J., and Jerry.
Biography[]
Rebecca "Becky Healy (née Conner) was born on March 15, 1975 in Lanford, Illinois to Roseanne Conner (née Harris) and Dan Conner. In 1978 when Becky was three, the family was vacationing in Lake Ratoma where Becky caught a lung infection. This was so serious, that Becky had to be admitted to a hospital. While both parents were terrified that she was on death's door, Becky managed to pull through and recover from the illness.
Becky is the oldest child of Dan and Roseanne. She has 3 younger siblings; Darlene Olinsky (née Conner), D.J. Conner, and Jerry Conner. Becky was definitely the opposite of her sister; a bookworm who was very smart and very feminine like her mother. She enjoyed dating boys and would often experiment with her clothes and make-up, thus receiving a lot of attention. Becky would often do the lion's share of the housework and often ran errands while her parents worked. She kept 3 guinea pigs; Pebbles, Bam-Bam, and Waffles when she was a teenager.
She would always stand up for whatever she believed in, whether refusing to dissect frogs in school, taking a crummy job at the Buy 'N Bag to pay for a car, or defending her husband from her mother's cruel jibes. On the other hand, she could also be very self-centered, doing thins because they were right for her or that she might get something out of a deal, rather than because they were right for someone else or just the right thing to do, or any sense of altruism. She could be very stubborn, insisting to parents that she could handle things on her own, even if she actually could not.
Her relationship with her parents was easy going in adolescence but grew rockier the closer she got to adulthood, though it was obvious that she still loved them very much. As the eldest daughter, Dan and Roseanne heaped more responsibility on her, which she resented, instead of demanding rewards for good behavior and good grades rather than realizing that she was actually being treated more like an adult. She was also more supportive of her parents than her sister and D.J. were realizing just how much they struggled sometimes just to put food on the table--until she realized that they bad been unable to provide her with a college fund after Dan's bike shop went out of business.
Becky and Roseanne had a mixed time together. One day they would be down at the mall together playing pranks on the security staff, the next they would be bickering over household rules. Becky won two major victories over her mother by running away to her Aunt Jackie and by giving her mother the silent treatment, but she also set herself back quite a ways when she and Dana Hudson got drunk while her parents were away visiting her parents; Darlene loyally tried to cover for her, but Roseanne and Dan's trust in their eldest was badly damaged. In her quest for independence, Becky eventually defied her parents, by eloping with Mark Healy at 17, and moved to Minneapolis.
Dan and Becky on the other hand, didn't appear to have much time together at first, since they had little in common; Dan was closer to D.J. and especially Darlene. But Dan would often duke it out with Roseanne over the way he felt she was treating Becky, sticking up for her behind her back. Becky was never quite sure about how she should behave around her father, leading to some awkward father-daughter moments but the two did love each other. However, Dan refused to speak to her for a long time after she ran away with Mark, although she tried to explain herself. Eventually, Dan reconciled with her at Roseanne's urging. Despite having a better relationship with her mother, in terms of personalities Becky was slightly nearer to her father; both are stubborn and do not take disappointments easily, but they are survivors and protective of their families.
Sarah Chalke as the second Becky.
Darlene and Becky often fought like cats and dogs while they lived together, squabbling over territory and status in the house. Darlene was the tougher, feistier one; Becky saw her position as eldest as her right. She softened when her mother told her that Darlene was going to spend her entire life killing herself just to be second to Becky as she would date boys first, graduate first, get married first.
When Becky was 15 years old, she began dating Mark Healy, much to Roseanne and Dan's demise. They would fight every once in a while and would break up and get back together. One day, Roseanne was fixated on driving Dan's prized procession Harley Davidson motorcycle and Dan realized that someone messed with his bike. He found out that not only did Mark and Becky took out his Harley, but Mark adjusted the carburetor making his bike not sound as loud. Dan gave Becky the silent treatment for a while, but they eventually reconciled.
When Becky was 16 years old, Roseanne and Dan bought a bike shop. It was going good for a while until they had to go out of business a year and a half later.
When Becky was 17 years old, Roseanne and Dan's bike shop went out of business and when Becky realized that she was just another mouth to feed, Mark received a job offer in Minneapolis, MN and Becky told him to take it. Realizing she didn't want to lose Mark, they ended up eloping and got married. Darlene was accepted early at a Chicago arts college and found a stable romance with Mark's younger brother David Healy.
Becky and D.J. didn't have much of a relationship as they were 6 years apart and Becky resented having to ferry her brother everywhere around Lanford. She always considered him weird, confirmed when she found the box of doll heads under his bed. There was an element of jealousy involved – Becky saw DJ getting treats which she felt she never had and resented him for it. On the other hand, Becky did not physically and verbally harass him constantly, as Darlene often did.
Jackie and Becky were very close, often sounding off against the unwanted interference from Roseanne as well as being mirror images of each other, although Becky married young and Jackie was always better off single. Although she’d be the last to admit it, the Jackie/Becky dynamic was most sisterly than aunt/niece.
Her relationship with Mark, her boyfriend and later husband, can be rocky at times, but they are devoted to each other; she broke up with him once, but it didn't last long. Subsequent to their marriage, they have fights more often than David and Darlene, their younger siblings (and siblings-in-law); however, they only split up once, for a very short time. Mark tends to be dim-witted and short-tempered with an overly masculine attitude, but he is a reliable worker and a loyal, loving husband with good instincts; Roseanne's objection to him was mainly based on his disrespect to her personally. In the final episode when they were visiting their newborn niece Harris, it was confirmed that Becky and Mark were expecting a baby.
Roseanne[]
Season 1
Becky is a successful, popular 14-year-old who does extremely well in school and is likely to be the first Conner to go to college. She supports her parents who work blue-collar jobs and lobbies successfully to be put in charge of babysitting at home. She can be somewhat distracted when the telephone rings and will spend hours talking to her friends. Becky gains her first boyfriend in the form of a middle-class boy called Chip who works at the local bowling alley. Becky cheated on him with Johnny Swanko a.k.a. the "Tongue Bandit"-- an eerie precursor to Mark.
Season 2
Becky starts dating Jimmy Meltrigger, a cornerback at Lanford High School due to Chip discovering the two-timing and finding himself another girl. Her relationship with her parents get rockier as she spends a lot of time arguing with them over her responsibilities at home and her desire for a social life. They ended up breaking up.
Season 3
Earlier problems occasionally break into open warfare with Becky running away from home and to Jackie who takes her in for a week whilst Roseanne is furious at the situation. With Roseanne working at the diner at Rodbell's, Becky has to pick up more household chores which leads to the desire for a car. She also meets Mark Healy who is a smoking, drinking, 18-year-old senior whom her parents despise. Although she is banned from seeing him, she sneaks out to do so anyways leading to some spectacular feuding. Eventually their parents realize they are reliving the same arguments they had with their parents and let the two date. Becky and Darlene bond somewhat as Darlene enters the dating world herself and Becky provides advice. In the episode Bird is the Word, Becky was suspended from school for three days for making an obscene gesture. She got into trouble with her parents. Roseanne, along with other parents, were called into the school after several parents called to complain about it and wanted the school to redo the picture. When Roseanne came home from work that afternoon, Roseanne took a closer look at the school picture and realized that Becky actually did NOT flip her middle finger and she was allowed to go back to school.
Season 4
Becky shocks her mother by asking to go on the pill—although she and Mark have already had sex together. She also gets a job at the Buy 'N Bag to help her pay for a car, but after her uptight boss bullies her and calls her a demeanor name, Mark punches him and and she breaks up with him because it's the latest in a series of incidents that lead her to believe that he isn’t the one for her after all. As Darlene becomes depressed, Becky has even more to do at home, which slowly builds up over the year and with the failure of Dan’s bike shop, she discovers that there’s no way she can go to college. By the end of the season, she and Mark are back together.
Season 5
The bike shop Dan and Roseanne bought (Lanford Custom Cycles) failure leads to Mark finding a great job in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Becky decides to follow him, and they get married two months shy of her 18th birthday. Dan wants the marriage annulled, but Roseanne points out that she won't need their permission in two months and will marry again, only this time, they will never see her again. Dan stops speaking to Becky at this point, despite Becky's attempts to make amends.
At Roseanne's persuasion, Dan decides to reconcile later. Becky only makes 4 appearances this year; her responsibilities are mostly dumped on Darlene, who does not complain as much but often ignores them.
Season 6
Becky and Mark return from Minneapolis shortly after Darlene has gone to school in Chicago—and Becky is now played by Sarah Chalke. They move into the recently-vacated room upstairs; Mark struggles to find work, and Becky takes a job at an obnoxious bar called "Bunz" to bring in some money. Becky cooks this year’s Thanksgiving meal only to see Mark and Dan have a fight, but they quickly make up and are buddies. Dan and Roseanne are furious to find out that the money they gave Becky for a year’s tuition at the nearby community college was spent on Mark to do a mechanics course and even more furious to find out that Mark dropped out after two lessons; they briefly split up, but Mark returns after having talks with Dan and Roseanne respectively. Mark inadvertently reveals that David has moved in with Darlene in Chicago, causing Roseanne to drag David back; Becky urges her to go easy on them.
Season 7
Dan gets a government job for the city at a garage working on buses for the school district and Becky was able to convince Dan to hire Mark again and Becky quits her job at Bunz. The pair moves out of the house and into a local trailer park. She is deeply unhappy with her marriage to Mark and feeling that she is wasting her time when in fact he feels very insecure about his attractive, intelligent wife, and some timely intervention from Roseanne, they get their marriage back on track. . She gets closer to David, the two sharing similar interests and with Darlene dumping David for a guy in Chicago, almost get it together on a couple of occasions; however, after she and David hurt Darlene's feelings badly, they withdraw from each other, and near the end of the series David reconciles with Darlene for good.
Season 8
The Original Becky returns—Lecy Goranson resumes the role but Sarah Chalke appears as Becky during the Disney World special, during which Mark actually becomes jealous of her friendliness towards Goofy. Becky’s malaise over her marriage continues as a theme this year and she actively considers dropping Mark and going to college to become a doctor. She serves as Darlene's bridesmaid at her wedding to David.
Season 9
Becky only has a smaller part to play in the affairs of the Conner clan, but finds out she is pregnant at the end of the series. It's revealed that "in real life" she and David were the ones who really got married. However, Becky becoming pregnant and Becky being with David was later confirmed to been part of a book Roseanne was writing and both events weren't actually true.
Season 10
Lecy Goranson resumes the role yet again for a second time. 21 years later, her husband, Mark Healy has passed away some time ago and she hasn't moved on, making her seem more immature and insecure than before, despite now being 43. She finds herself waitressing at a Mexican restaurant. Struggling financially, she has resorted to being a surrogate for Andrea (played by previous Becky actress Sarah Chalke) for $50,000, only to discover that she less than a 5% chance to become pregnant; she lied about her age, claiming to be much younger.
She is still tight with her family and despite how she often playfully messes with Darlene. she gives up a chance of a job with full benefits to give it to Darlene, who has given up her job as a writer and needs to support her kids.
The Conners[]
Season 1
Despite the low threshold of possibility, Becky has a one-night stand with the foreign bus boy (Emilio) from her workplace and eventually finds out that she's pregnant. She briefly considers giving the baby to a lesbian couple, but then she changes her mind and decides to raise it with her family. Although hesitant at first, Becky decides that Emilio can be involved with the baby. They consider a possible romantic relationship, but this is cut short when the government discovers that Emilio is an illegal immigrant. He is promptly deported, leaving his and Becky's baby without a papa.
Season 2
Becky finds herself in similar circumstances as Darlene did when she had Harris; she gives birth a few months too early. Although she at first has issues coming to terms with not only the usual baby duties, but the extra duties that come with a premature baby, she eventually overcomes them--and her baby attains good health. Becky names her baby Beverly Rose in honor of Beverly Harris and Roseanne Conner--her grandmother and mother, and her baby's great-grandmother and grandmother-- and soon after, she and Beverly Rose return home to live in the newly-renovated basement.
When Jackie kicked Beverly out over a dispute about The Lunch Box, Becky had the same dispute with Darlene, so she moved in with Jackie. Beverly moved in with Dan, which he hated, and wanted Beverly and Darlene to give the restaurant to Jackie and Becky. During the restaurant's much-needed renovations, she returned to work at her old job with Louise. Becky asked Louise to extend hours overnight, making Becky the shift leader during the busiest time of Casita Bonita.
Becky temporarily takes over Casita Bonita completely whenever Louise goes on tour. In 2020, Louise went on tour again. Becky also has a few arguments with Jackie about The Lunch Box.
Tia Ruthie and Tia Elsie start watching Beverly Rose while Becky is at work, and arrange for Becky and Beverly Rose to see Emilio. Eventually, they insist that Becky and Emilio get married. The original plan was for Becky to move to Mexico, but after a fight with other relatives, Emilio returned to Lanford.
Season 3
With her other two jobs having reduced hours, she decides to go with Darlene to Wellman Plastics. Darlene is promoted, landing Becky with two bosses at the same place.
Emilio wants to be back in their lives. He insists that they have a Caribbean lifestyle, including the expensive parties, and the Catholic religion. Becky finds it strange.
Physical Appearance[]
Becky is described as a tall, blonde hair, blue-eyed beautiful and attractive young woman. She is about 5'7"-5'9" and is approx. 130-150 lbs.
Relationships[]
Dan Conner - Father
Roseanne Conner - Mother (deceased)
Louise Conner (née Goldufski) - Step-mother
Mark Healy - Husband (deceased)
Beverly Rose Conner - Daughter (with Emilio)
Jackie Goldufski (née Harris) - Aunt (Roseanne's sister)
Neville Goldufski - Uncle (Jackie's husband)
Darlene Olinsky (née Conner) - Sister
D.J. Conner - Brother
Jerry Conner - Brother
David Healy - Ex-brother-in-law (Darlene's ex-husband)
Geena Conner (née Williams) - Sister-in-law (D.J.'s wife)
Nana Mary - Maternal Great-grandmother (deceased)
Beverly Harris - Maternal Grandmother
Al Harris - Maternal Grandfather (deceased)
Ed Conner - Paternal Grandfather
Audrey Conner - Paternal Grandmother
Crystal Conner (née Anderson) - Paternal Grandmother (Dan's step-mom/Roseanne's best friend/Married to Ed, Dan's father)
Ed Conner Jr. - Cousin (Ed and Crystal's son)
Lonnie Anderson - Cousin (Crystal's son and Ed's stepson)
Angela Conner - Cousin (Crystal and Ed's daughter)
Harris Healy - Niece (David and Darlene's daughter)
Mark Healy II - Nephew (David and Darlene's son)
Mary Conner - Niece (D.J. and Geena's daughter)
Dating Relationships[]
Chip - Ex-boyfriend
Johnny Swanko - Ex-boyfriend
Dean - Ex-boyfriend
Jimmy Meltrigger - Ex-boyfriend
List of Appearances[]
Across 10 seasons of Roseanne, Becky Conner was absent from 70 episodes, with Lecy Goranson being absent in 117 episodes (appearing in 120 episodes), and Sarah Chalke being absent in 189 episodes (appearing in 42 episodes). Lecy has been absent in only 1 episode ("Trucking Live in Front of a Fully Vaccinated Studio Audience") of The Conners so far.
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