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Shannen Maria Doherty (born April 12, 1971) is an American actress and television director, perhaps best known for her work as Heather Duke in Heathers, as Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210 and as Prue Halliwell in Charmed.

Biography

Early life

Doherty was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Rosa, a beauty parlor owner, and Tom Doherty, a mortgage consultant. Doherty has Irish Catholic ancestry, though was raised in her mother's Southern Baptist religion. In 1978, when Doherty was seven, her family moved to Los Angeles and she immediately announced that she wanted to be an actress.
In an interview in the December 2006 issue of Glamour, she said:

When I was nine, my mother developed an excruciating headache and had to be hospitalized - she was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. She came through it but the experience was terrifying. The following year my father had a massive stroke. In a single year I nearly lost both my parents. I felt my classmates couldn't relate to what I was going through, so I closed myself off.

Success began early, with guest spots on TV series including Voyagers! and Father Murphy. When a casting notice was released in Hollywood for a regular role on the popular Little House on the Prairie she leapt at the opportunity and eventually won the role of Jenny Wilder at the age of eleven, thanks in part to actor/producer Michael Landon seeing her guest spot on Father Murphy (which he also produced).

Career

Doherty was cast as the oldest Witherspoon sibling, Kris, on the family drama Our House, which ran from 1986 to 1988. She then went on to appear in an episode of Magnum, P.I. Doherty's first major motion picture role was in Heathers, released in 1989. She went on to star in the Aaron Spelling-produced TV series Beverly Hills 90210 for four years, from 1990 to 1994. Her departure from the series was reportedly acrimonious, however, and her career afterward was somewhat spotty, marked for the most part by made-for-TV movies. There were a few bright spots, though, particularly a lead role in Kevin Smith's 1995 film Mallrats.
   In 1998, Spelling cast her in another TV series, Charmed, in which she played Prue Halliwell, the oldest of three sisters who discover they're witches, along with occasionally directing some of the episodes. She left that series in 2001, after three years. She asked to be let out of her contract, due to a feud with co-star Alyssa Milano. Though she'd left the show long before it ended, she owns five percent of the rights to the series. She was a former regular on the failed TV series North Shore, a return to her prime-time soap roots.
   In 2005, Doherty was cast in the new TV comedy Love Inc. but was dropped from the show just months before the show's debut. Doherty is now starring in her own show, Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty on the Oxygen network. In the show she goes around doing "dirty work" for members of the public, including dumping boyfriends or telling people what their friends really think about them.
   She recently starred in the popular British sitcom Bo! in the USA, a program of brain child Leigh Francis. In the show, she plays herself, being randomly harassed by Avid Merrion (Francis) who claims they're lovers. The show aired in October 2006 on the British channel 4, and she appeared in several episodes. It has been announced that she'll appear in two TV projects in 2007. First up is the pilot Kiss Me Deadly: A Jacob Keane Assignment for the here! network, and then the holiday picture Christmas Caper for ABC Family.
   Shannen has set up a production company called "No Apologies" where she’s developing a TV-drama for herself.

Personal life

Doherty was sentenced to either ten days in jail or twenty days of work-release duty, three years probation, and ordered to pay a $1,500 fine for drunk driving charges in 2001.
During her time on Charmed, she and Australian born actor Julian McMahon, who played the half-human half-demon Cole Turner, had a brief relationship off-set.
Doherty was married briefly to Ashley Hamilton, son of George Hamilton. She was also married to Rick Solomon, famous for a leaked sex tape with his then girlfriend Paris Hilton, and for his brief marriage to Pamela Anderson.

Selected Filmography

1981 Father Murphy as Drusilla
1982 Night Shift as Bluebird
1982 The Phoenix as Little Girl
1982 The Secret of NIMH as Teresa (voice)
1982 Voyagers! as Betty Parris
1983 Little House on the Prairie (TV series) as Jenny Wilder (1982-1983)
1983 Little House: Look Back To Yesterday as Jenny Wilder
1983 Magnum, P.I. as Ima Platt
1984 Airwolf as Phoebe Danner
1984 Little House: Bless All The Dear Children as Jenny Wilder
1984 Little House: The Last Farewell as Jenny Wilder
1985 Girls Just Want To Have Fun as Maggie Malene
1985 Highway to Heaven as Shelley Fowler
1985 Robert Kennedy & His Times as Kathleen Kennedy
1985 The Other Lover as Alson Fielding
1986 Our House as Kris Witherspoon (1986-1988)
1986 Out Laws as Young Girl
1989 21 Jump Street as Janine
1989 Heathers as Heather Duke
1990 Life Goes On as Ginny Green
1990 Beverly Hills, 90210 as Brenda Walsh (1990-1994)
1991 Forever Young as Party Girl
1992 Freeze Frame as Lindsay Scott
1992 Obsessed as Lorie Brindel
1992 The Secret Of Lost Creek as Jennie Fogel
1993 Saturday Night Live (Host)
1994 A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story as Margaret
1994 Almost Dead as Doctor Katherine Roshak
1994 Blindfold: Acts Of Obsession as Madeleine Dalton
1994 Jailbreakers as Angel Norton
1995 Mallrats as Rene Mosier
1996 Gone In The Night as Cindi Dowaliby
1997 Friends 'Til The End as Heather Romley
1997 Sleeping with the Devil as Rebecca Dubrovich
1997 The Ticket as CeeCee Reicker
1997 Nowhere as Valley Chick #2
1998 Charmed as Prue Halliwell (1998-2001)
1999 Striking Poses as Gage Sullivan
2000 Satan's School For Girls as Beth Hammersmith/Karen Oxford
2001 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back as Herself
2001 Another Day as Kate
2001 Gary & Mike as Breeze(voice)
2002 Hell on Heels: The Battle Of Mary Kay as Lexi Wilcox
2002 The Rendering, with Peter Outerbridge and John Brennan
2003-2004 Scare Tactics as host
2003 Nightlight as Celeste
2004 Glitterati as Jamie Fields
2005 as Faith Clavell
2005 Love, inc. as Denise Johnson (pilot) (uncredited)
2005 North Shore as Alexandra Hudson
2006 Bo In The USA as herself (Channel 4 comedy show)
2006 Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty as Hostess
2006 The View as co-Hostess July 31 & August 1 (ABC talk-show)
2007 Christmas Caper as Kate Dove (ABC Family)
2008 Kiss Me Deadly as Marta
2008 High Chaparall as herself
2008 The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon as Sarah Jordan

Director

2000 Charmed "Be Careful What You Witch For"

2001 Charmed "The Good, the Bad, and the Cursed"

2001 Charmed "All Hell Breaks Loose"

Producer

Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty (executive producer) (1 episode, 2006)

Better Off: Insecurity Check (2006) TV episode (executive producer)

Another Day (2001) (TV) (co-executive producer)

Miscellaneous crew

1997 "Friends 'Til The End" (singer: "Stop", "Does Anybody Hear Me?", "Friends 'Til the End")

2001 Charmed "Coyote Piper" (choreographer)Further Information

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