Performer(s) Appeared in Pepper Ann Pearson is the titular protagonist of the Disney animated television series Pepper Ann. She is a nerdy and unpredictable 12-year-old seventh-grade girl who attends Hazelnut Middle School. Her arrogance is matched by her friends and family. She often has elaborate fantasy sequences in which her reflection acts as her conscience during moral dilemmas. Not unlike Tommy and Dil Pickles from Nickelodeon's Rugrats, Pepper is of a mixed-religion family, having a Christian father and a Jewish mother, and as such, celebrates both religion's holidays.