Shannen Doherty, 53, actress of "Charmed" and "Beverly Hills, 90210," passes away
"Actress Shannen Doherty passed away, and I confirm this with sorrowful heart. After battling the illness for many years, she lost her struggle with cancer on Saturday, July 13, according to Doherty's spokeswoman Leslie Sloane.
53 was her age.
Doherty went into remission two years after receiving her initial breast cancer diagnosis in 2015. That relief was just temporary. According to court records in a case Doherty filed in February 2020 against her insurance provider for house damage, she was "dying" from Stage 4 breast cancer, which had spread to the point of incurability.
"In many ways, it's a bitter pill to swallow," Doherty said at the time on "Good Morning America." "I do have days when I ask myself, 'Why me?'" I then ask myself, "Well, why not me?" I mean, who else deserves this except me? Not one of us does.
"In many ways, it's a bitter pill to swallow," Doherty said at the time on "Good Morning America." "I do have days when I ask myself, 'Why me?'" I then ask myself, "Well, why not me?" I mean, who else deserves this except me? Not one of us does.
She revealed on Instagram in June 2023 that she had brain metastases from her disease at the start of the year.
In the description of a video of herself getting radiotherapy, Doherty said, "On January 5th, my scan showed Mets in my brain."
In the description of a video of herself getting radiotherapy, Doherty said, "On January 5th, my scan showed Mets in my brain."
"It's clear that I'm afraid. Doherty remarked, "I had a lot going on in my life and I am really claustrophobic. "But this is how cancer can look—the fear, the turmoil, the timing of it all."
Doherty's journey to Hollywood began quickly after her birth on April 12, 1971, in Memphis, Tennessee, where her father worked as a bank employee and her mother managed a beauty salon. Three years after her family relocated to Los Angeles, she made her acting debut at the age of ten on the brief television series "Father Murphy."
Doherty's journey to Hollywood began quickly after her birth on April 12, 1971, in Memphis, Tennessee, where her father worked as a bank employee and her mother managed a beauty salon. Three years after her family relocated to Los Angeles, she made her acting debut at the age of ten on the brief television series "Father Murphy."
After spotting the budding actress, series producer Michael Landon decided to cast her as Laura Ingalls Wilder's adoptive daughter for an 18-episode run on his popular programme "Little House on the Prairie" the following year.
This exposure resulted in a string of parts, such as a three-year stint (1986–1988) as a lead in the Wilford Brimley family drama "Our House" and a main role in the 1989 high school dark comedy "Heathers."
This exposure resulted in a string of parts, such as a three-year stint (1986–1988) as a lead in the Wilford Brimley family drama "Our House" and a main role in the 1989 high school dark comedy "Heathers."
The debut of "Beverly Hills, 90210," the part she would be associated with for the rest of her life, would provide her with her greatest break the following year. Playing the prim-and-proper yet impetuous Brenda Walsh in the early 1990s, Doherty, then 19 years old, sprang to fame as the programme became a generation's guilty pleasure.
But for Doherty, things weren't always going as planned. The actor gained a reputation for being challenging to deal with on the set and was said to have feuded with several members of the staff and cast, most notably Jennie Garth, who was his co-star. She became as notorious as she was renowned because to the headlines in celebrity glossies and the tense reports on entertainment news programmes.
But for Doherty, things weren't always going as planned. The actor gained a reputation for being challenging to deal with on the set and was said to have feuded with several members of the staff and cast, most notably Jennie Garth, who was his co-star. She became as notorious as she was renowned because to the headlines in celebrity glossies and the tense reports on entertainment news programmes.
"She turned into a parable reality-TV celebrity before there were real reality-TV celebrities," stated Robert Thompson, the director of Syracuse University's Bleier Centre for Television and Popular Culture. "It appeared as though two shows were airing simultaneously featuring the genuine Shannen Doherty—you can put six sets of quotation marks around the term "real."
The majority of the other leads on the programme, including Garth, continued for a further six seasons when Doherty left following the fourth season.
The majority of the other leads on the programme, including Garth, continued for a further six seasons when Doherty left following the fourth season.
However, acquaintances report that Doherty became less eccentric as he got older. She would return to her iconic role as Brenda Walsh twice: first for a lengthy cameo on the 2008 revival of "90210," and again in the 2019 dramedy "BH90210," in which the original cast members came back to portray made-up versions of themselves in a bid to bring back the popular programme.
According to Thompson, the reason she continued returning to the character voluntarily was not only because she could never shake the part's allure.
She is the second prominent "Beverly Hills, 90210" cast member to pass away at a young age: Luke Perry passed away in March 2019 as a result of stroke complications.
According to Thompson, the reason she continued returning to the character voluntarily was not only because she could never shake the part's allure.
She is the second prominent "Beverly Hills, 90210" cast member to pass away at a young age: Luke Perry passed away in March 2019 as a result of stroke complications.
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