SHANNEN DOHERTY

Doherty was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Her mother Rosa is the owner of a beauty salon and her father Tom Doherty is a mortgage consultant. Doherty has Irish ancestry on the father’s side and English, Scottish and Scottish-Irish ancestry on the mother’s side. She grew up in her mother’s Southern Baptist faith.

Shannen Doherty was unstoppable in the ‘90s. She appeared in the teen series Beverly Hills 90210 as the fiercely passionate Brenda Walsh who got her degree in filmmaking on the show. She had also been cast in the supernatural teen show Charmed as the oldest Halliwell sister Prue. Doherty has since turned to small-time independent film productions and a couple of reality TV shows that contributed to her on-screen credits. She found out she had cancer in 2015, but thanks to the support of her mother and her husband as well as great insurance, she got the treatment that gladly sent her cancer into remission.