Shannen Doherty

At 53 years old, Shannen Doherty has this physical status:

Shannen Maria Doherty (born April 12, 1971) is an American actress, producer, and television director.

Jenny Wilder of Little House on the Prairie (1982-1983), Margaret Duke of Heathers (1988-1989), Prue Halliwell in Hamilton (1999–2001), and BH90210 (2019) bp.

Early life

Doherty was raised in her mother's Southern Baptist faith.

Personal life

Doherty briefly met Max Factor heir Dean Jay Factor before he applied for a restraining order on May 25, 1993. He suspected physical harm and threats on Doherty's part, but Doherty's father said the assault came from Factor and not her.

Doherty married Ashley Hamilton, the son of actor George Hamilton, on October 11, 1993. In April 1994, the two families filed for divorce.

Doherty, actor Jason London, and actress Charlie Spradling, became Cooper Smith London's godmother in 1996.

Doherty married Rick Salomon in 2002, but the wedding was suspended after nine months. Kurt Iswarienko, a photographer from Malibu, California, married her on October 15, 2011.

Doherty's house was destroyed in the Woolsey Fire in November 2018.

Doherty began her public image as a young child on Beverly Hills, 90210. She has been dubbed by People magazine the "iconic Hollywood 'bad girl' of the nineties." Doherty's co-stars dominated tabloid headlines, particularly about her tense feud with Jennie Garth, as well as allegations of heavy partying, on-set lateness, and physical combats. During the show's success, Ben Is Dead, a newspaper that distributed "I Hate Brenda," also launched the "Shannen Snitch Line" hotline, where people could call in and report gossip about Doherty.

During her three years on Charmed, her reputation swung higher as tabloids fuelled rumors of a feud with co-star Alyssa Milano. Doherty departed the series after a few seasons; on Charmed, she was reportedly fired by producer Aaron Spelling after an ultimatum from Milano.

Both Doherty and Charles Rosin, founders of 90210, have confirmed that it was impossible to work on-set; Rosin said, "She had an habitual lateness." Her tardiness was appalling, and she had a callous demeanor and an indifference." Jennie Garth has confessed that the two of them "actually wanted to claw each other's eyes out" several times. The clash between Doherty and Garth on the Beverly Hills, 90210, escalated physical violence; nonetheless, Garth has said that the feud was more about mismaturity than genuine animosity. Doherty has confessed to making mistakes, blaming her image, her youth, and personal issues. "I have a rep. Did I get it?" she said in 2010: "I have a rep." I did. However, after a while, you're trying to get rid of it because you're a unique individual. You've grown, and all of the bad things you've done in your life have brought you to a much happier place."

Doherty is a registered Republican. "I know that the overwhelming number of people in the entertainment industry are likely to be Democrats," she said in a recent issue. I have no problems with that. And they should have no issue with the fact that I'm a Republican."

Doherty, a lifelong animal rights campaigner, is a member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and she and founder Paul Watson met with Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson in 2014.

Doherty admitted she had been diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 1999.

Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2015, which had spread to her lymph nodes. Doherty revealed in February 2016 that she was receiving anti-estrogen therapy to reduce the tumor and enable lumpectomy rather than mastectomy. A lumpectomy was not feasible due to multiple tumors, and a single mastectomy was performed in May 2016. Some of the cancer cells may have spread outside of the lymph nodes, according to surgery. Doherty underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy after surgery because the cancer was more advanced than previously thought. Doherty's cancer had been in remission on April 29, 2017.

Doherty announced that her cancer had returned a year ago and that she now stage four. Anne Marie Kortright, Doherty's close friend, has stood by her in her fight against cancer, according to Doherty.

During an interview with Juju Chang of ABC News, Doherty gave an update on her cancer treatment in October 2021.

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Career

Doherty appeared on television shows, including Voyagers, in 1982. Michael Landon's invention and production of Father Murphy. Jenny Wilder, an 11-year-old Doherty, appeared on Little House on the Prairie, which Landon starred in and produced in the same year. Doherty appeared in only four episodes on the show's final season, which was cancelled in 1983.

In 1982, Doherty lent her voice to the animated film The Secret of NIMH. P.I. She appeared in an episode of Magnum, P.I. ("A Sense of Debt") is followed by an early episode of Airwolf for which she was nominated as the Best Young Actress: Guest in a Series at the 6th Youth in Film Awards in 1984.

Maggie Malene appeared in the teen film comedy Girls Just Want to Have Fun, alongside actress Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker. Doherty appeared on the family drama Our House from 1986 to 1988, gaining multiple Young Artist Award nominations.

Doherty's first major motion picture appearance came in the 1980 film Heathers, which premiered in 1988. Brenda Walsh, a teen actress from Aaron Spelling-produced television series Beverly Hills, 1990, attracted worldwide attention and renown for her breakout role as Brenda Walsh in the Aaron Spelling-produced television series Beverly Hills, 90210. Brenda's portrayal of Brenda in 1991 and 1992 earned her a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Young Actress Actress in a Television Series. In 1994, Doherty left the show after the fourth season.

She debuted nude in Playboy magazine in December 1993, first in December 1993, then in March 1994. She appeared for the magazine again in December 2003 and has been included in a 10-page pictorial.

Doherty's post-career consisted mainly of made-for-TV movies, though she did appear in Kevin Smith's 1995 film Mallrats and then cameoed in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Spelling starred Prue Halliwell, the oldest of three sisters who are witches, in 1998. During the second and third seasons, Doherty also wrote a few episodes for the show. Doherty died on the show in 2001 after finishing the third season, causing the death of her character. According to reports, the reason for her departure was due to on-set and off-set tensions between Doherty and co-star Alyssa Milano. Doherty was also nominated for the Saturn Award, Best Genre TV Actress, in 1999 and 2000 for her appearance in Charmed.

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Doherty came in tenth on their list of the 50 Most Wicked Women of Prime Time. Prue Halliwell was the 10th greatest witch in television history in 2007.

During its first season on Sci Fi Channel, Doherty hosted Scare Tactics. Doherty appeared on the short-lived television show North Shore, where she appeared as Alexandra Hudson from 2004 to 2005, making a return to her prime-time soap roots. Love Inc., a comedy, was in the pilot for a comedy when she was in the pilot in 2005.

Doherty produced and appeared in her own reality show, Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty, which premiered on the Oxygen channel in 2006. Doherty performed "dirty work" for members of the public, such as dumping boyfriends or informing people what their friends are really think about them. Due to poor ratings, the show was cancelled after a season.

She has appeared in many episodes of the well-known British sitcom Bo! Leigh Francis' brain child lives in the United States. In the program, she played herself being targeted by Avid Merrion (Francis), who claimed they were lovers. The show premiered on the British Channel 4 in October 2006.

Doherty appeared in two television shows in 2007. She appeared in Kiss Me Deadly: A Jacob Keane Assignment for the Here TV network and then reprised with a starring role in ABC Family's holiday film Christmas Caper. Doherty also founded No Apologies, a production company with which she planned to create a TV drama for herself that year. Doherty was ranked #96 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 100 Greatest Television Icons in 2007.

Doherty appeared on the Swedish television show High Chaparill in 2008, in the second episode of the show's fourth season.

Brenda Walsh, Doherty appeared on television for the Beverly Hills, 90210 spin off for The CW Television Network in 2008, 14 years since her last television appearance as Brenda Walsh, and she received a $40,000–50,000 per episode on The CW Television Network. Brenda in four of the first six episodes appeared as a guest star in the new series, reprising her old role as Brenda. As the guest director of the high school musical, her character, now a well-known theater actress and stage producer, has returned to life. Doherty said she was keen to return to the series later this season and then agreed to appear in three more episodes, including one in May 2009. The writers were keen to have Jennie Garth, who starred in her own 90210 role of Kelly Taylor, to recite scenes. It was reported that Doherty and Garth's characters would all be interested in the character Ryan Matthews (Ryan Eggold), which is reminiscent of their old rivalry for former bad-boy protagonist Dylan McKay (Luke Perry). Doherty and Garth later confirmed that the reports regarding their characters' love triangle were inaccurate.

Doherty was announced to co-star Dylan McDermott in the independent film Burning Palms, a parody of Los Angeles stereotypes, through five intertwining storylines in late 2008. (The film's world premiere was at the Newport Beach Film Festival in April 2010.) In the SciFi Channel adventure film The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon, Doherty appeared in a leading role. On December 20, 2008, the film premiered on the cable network.

It was announced on March 1, 2010 that Doherty would be a celebrity contestant on Dancing with the Stars for the tenth season. On Monday, March 22, 2010, the season premiered. Doherty was paired with two-time champion Mark Ballas in his sixth season on the show, but the two were the first couple to be disqualified in the second week, on March 30. "Doherty would not have left if we had just done scores," the judges said. To make her elderly father proud, she wanted to do Dancing with the Stars. For the finale, Doherty returned.

Doherty appeared in FEARnet's animated web series Mari-Kari, which debuted on June 3, 2010. Mari and Kari are identical twins, but Kari is already deceased and is a ghost. In the eight-episode display, Doherty spoke with Mari and Kari.

Doherty will appear in a one-hour reality series that will track her and her fiancé, Kurt Iswarienko, as they planned their wedding on July 21, 2011. Shannen Says premiered on April 10, 2012.

Doherty became a spokesperson for Education Connection in 2012 and appeared in an episode of The New Normal as her character Brenda Walsh from Beverly Hills, 90210.

It was announced on July 24, 2014, that Doherty and her long-serving co-star Holly Marie Combs would appear in their own road trip reality show, Off the Map with Shannen & Holly, which premiered on Great American Country on January 2, 2015. The six-episode series followed the pair as they traveled around the Southeast United States, stopping in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. On the official website of Great American Country, viewers were able to vote on activities in which Doherty and Combs were present at each destination.

Doherty joined the cast of a Heathers television series in November 2016, first scheduled to air on Paramount Network in March 2018. She portrayed one of the new generation of "Heathers" in a way that was different from Heather Duke's character in the 1989 film. However, the Parkland school shooting affected the show's premiere, which was postponed due to the show's sombre tone and themes of high school violence. The network decided to cancel the show completely in June 2018. In the end, the series ran for more than five nights in October 2018.

Doherty regained her role as Brenda Walsh in the six-episode sequel BH90210, which premiered on FOX on August 7, 2019. She appeared in the film Undateable John, starring Daryl Hannah, Tom Arnold, and Margaret Cho in the same year.

Jesse Metcalfe, Bruce Willis, Chad Michael Murray, Kelly Greyson, Ser'Darius Blain, 2021. Lionsgate Films has announced the film in select theaters and on demand. 2021.

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