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07/15/2024
Shannen Doherty, the raven-haired actress famed for playing headstrong heroines in the 1990s television dramas “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Charmed,” died on Saturday at her home in Malibu, California, after attempting in recent years to shed her rebellious reputation. She was 53.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Leslie Sloane, her spokeswoman, confirmed in an emailed statement that the reason was cancer.
Ms. Doherty discovered she had breast cancer in February 2015 and has been candid about her battle with the disease in the years thereafter. In the summer of 2016, she shaved her head in front of a group of friends, and in 2017, she revealed that her cancer was in remission. It reappeared in 2020, and in June 2023, Ms. Doherty revealed that the disease had gone to her brain. In November, she reported that it had spread to her bones.
However, she continued to work and launched a podcast that month.
“I am not done living. I’m not done with love. I’m not finished with making. “I’m not done hoping to make things better,” she told People magazine. “I’m not done.”
Shannen Maria Doherty was born on April 12, 1971, in Memphis, to mortgage consultant John Doherty Jr. and beautician Rosa (Wright) Doherty. By the age of ten, Shannen had established herself as a child actor, playing Jenny Wilder in 18 episodes of “Little House on the Prairie” and costarring with Wilford Brimley and Deidre Hall in the NBC drama “Our House.”
Those were swiftly eclipsed by her portrayal as the acid-tongued, red-scrunchy-wearing Heather Duke in the 1988 film “Heathers,” a campy comedy-thriller starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, and Ms. Doherty as teenagers battling for lunchroom dominance as the corpse count rises.
Her role as Brenda Walsh on the high school soap opera “Beverly Hills, 90210” propelled her to stardom. Ms. Doherty, a green-eyed brunette with a heart-shaped face, portrayed a Midwestern transplant who dated older men, pursued the school’s bad boy, and instigated fights with her peers. (“I was gonna maybe be in ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ and now I’m sorta living it,” was one of Brenda’s favorite love lines.)
