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Shannen Doherty Shannen Maria Doherty ( ; born April 12 , 1971 ) is an American actress , producer , and television director . She is known for her roles as Jenny Wilder in Little House on the Prairie ( 1982–1983 ) , Maggie Malene in Girls Just Want to Have Fun ( 1985 ) , Kris Witherspoon in Our House ( 1986–1988 ) , Heather Duke in Heathers ( 1989 ) , Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills , 90210 ( 1990–94 ) , 90210 ( 2008–2009 ) and again in BH90210 ( 2019 ) ; and Prue Halliwell in Charmed ( 1998–2001 ) . 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 ancestry on her fathers side and English , Scottish , and Scots-Irish ancestry on her mothers side . She was raised in her mothers Southern Baptist faith . Career . Child actress . In 1982 , Doherty had guest spots on TV series including Voyagers ! and Father Murphy , which was created and produced by Michael Landon . The same year , 11-year-old Doherty won the recurring role of Jenny Wilder on Little House on the Prairie , which Landon starred in and produced . Doherty appeared in all but four episodes on the final season of the show , which was cancelled in 1983 . Doherty lent her voice to the animated film The Secret of NIMH in 1982 . She appeared in an episode of Magnum , P.I . ( A Sense of Debt ) , followed by an early episode of Airwolf for which she was nominated as Best Young Actress : Guest in a Series at the 6th Youth in Film Awards in 1984 . In 1985 , she starred as Maggie Malene in the teen movie comedy Girls Just Want to Have Fun alongside actresses Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker . Doherty was cast as the oldest Witherspoon sibling , Kris , on the family drama Our House , which ran from 1986 to 1988 , a role which garnered her several Young Artist Award nominations . Rise to fame : 1989–2001 . Dohertys first major motion picture role was in the dark comedy Heathers , released in 1989 . She garnered worldwide attention and fame for her breakout role as Brenda Walsh in the Aaron Spelling-produced TV series Beverly Hills , 90210 in 1990 . In 1991 and 1992 , her portrayal of Brenda earned her a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Young Actress Starring in a Television Series . Doherty left the show after the fourth season in 1994 . She appeared nude in Playboy magazine , first in December 1993 , followed by a spread in March 1994 . She posed for the magazine again in December 2003 and has been featured in a 10-page pictorial . Dohertys career afterward consisted primarily of made-for-TV movies , though she also had a lead role in Kevin Smiths 1995 film Mallrats and later cameoed in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back . In 1998 , Spelling again cast her in another of his television series , Charmed , in which she played lead character Prue Halliwell , the oldest of three sisters who are witches . Doherty also directed a few episodes for the series during the second and third seasons . Doherty left the show in 2001 at the end of the third season , resulting in her characters death . Reportedly , the reason for her departure was because of on-set and off-set tensions between Doherty and co-star Alyssa Milano . Doherty was also twice nominated , in 1999 and 2000 , for the Saturn Award , Best Genre TV Actress , for her performance in Charmed . In 2004 , E ! placed Doherty at number 10 on their list of the 50 Most Wicked Women of Prime Time . In 2007 , AOL named Prue Halliwell the 10th greatest witch in television history . Later work : 2002–present . In 2003 , Doherty hosted the Sci Fi Channel candid-camera show Scare Tactics during its initial season . From 2004 to 2005 , in a return to her prime-time soap roots , Doherty starred as a regular on the short-lived TV series North Shore , where she starred as Alexandra Hudson . Later in 2005 , she was in the pilot for a comedy , Love Inc . In 2006 , Doherty produced and starred in her own reality show , Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty , which premiered on the Oxygen channel . In the show , Doherty carried out the dirty work for members of the public , including dumping boyfriends or telling people what their friends really think about them . The show was canceled after one season due to poor ratings . She also appeared in several episodes of the popular British sitcom Bo ! in the USA , a brain child of Leigh Francis . In the show , she played herself being randomly harassed by Avid Merrion ( Francis ) , who claimed they were lovers . The show aired in October 2006 on the British Channel 4 . During 2007 , Doherty appeared in two television projects . She first appeared in Kiss Me Deadly : A Jacob Keane Assignment for the Here TV network and followed up with a starring role in the holiday film Christmas Caper for ABC Family . That same year Doherty also set up a production company called No Apologies with which she planned to develop a TV drama for herself . Later in 2007 , Doherty was ranked number 96 on Entertainment Weeklys list of the 100 Greatest Television Icons . In 2008 , Doherty was featured on the Swedish television show High Chaparall , appearing in the second episode of the shows fourth season . Also in 2008 , 14 years since her last television appearance as Brenda Walsh , Doherty joined the cast of the Beverly Hills , 90210 spin off for The CW Television Network for a reported $40,000–50,000 an episode . She returned as a guest star in the new series , reprising her old role of Brenda in four of the initial six episodes . Her character , now a successful theater actress and stage director , returned as the guest director of the high school musical . After her initial guest spot was completed , Doherty stated she was open to returning to the series later in the season and eventually agreed to appear in three additional episodes , including an airing in May 2009 . The writers were eager to have her share scenes with Jennie Garth , who reprised her own 90210 role of Kelly Taylor . It was reported that Doherty and Garths characters would both have a romantic interest in the character Ryan Matthews ( Ryan Eggold ) reminiscent of their old rivalry for former bad-boy character Dylan McKay ( Luke Perry ) . Doherty and Garth later confirmed that the reports about the love triangle between their characters were false . In late 2008 , Doherty was announced to co-star alongside Dylan McDermott in the independent film Burning Palms , a satire based on Los Angeles stereotypes told through five intertwining storylines . ( The films world premiere was at the Newport Beach Film Festival in April 2010. ) Doherty played a lead role in the SciFi Channel adventure film The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon . The film premiered on the cable network on December 20 , 2008 . On March 1 , 2010 , it was announced that Doherty would be a celebrity contestant on Dancing with the Stars for the tenth season . The season premiered on Monday , March 22 , 2010 . Doherty was paired with two-time champion Mark Ballas in his sixth season on the show , but the pair was the first couple eliminated in the second week on March 30 . The judges said , Doherty wouldnt have left if we would have just done scores . She wanted to do Dancing with the Stars to make her ailing father proud . Doherty returned for the finale . Doherty starred in FEARnets animated web series Mari-Kari , which launched on June 3 , 2010 . Mari and Kari are identical twins , but Kari is already dead and is a ghost . Doherty voiced both Mari and Kari in the eight-episode show . On July 21 , 2011 , WE tv announced that Doherty would star in a one-hour reality series that would follow her and her fiancé , Kurt Iswarienko , as they planned their wedding . The show , Shannen Says , premiered on April 10 , 2012 . Later in 2012 , Doherty became a spokesperson for Education Connection , and appeared in an episode of The New Normal as her character Brenda Walsh from Beverly Hills , 90210 . On July 24 , 2014 , it was announced that Doherty and her former Charmed co-star Holly Marie Combs would star in their own road-trip reality show called Off the Map with Shannen & Holly , which premiered on Great American Country on January 2 , 2015 . The six-episode series followed the pair traveling across southeastern United States , with stops in Kentucky , Tennessee , Mississippi , Alabama , Georgia and Florida . Viewers were able to vote on activities in which Doherty and Combs engaged at each destination on Great American Countrys official website . In November 2016 , Doherty joined the cast of a Heathers television series , originally set to air on Paramount Network in March 2018 . She played the mother of one of the new generation of Heathers , different from the character of Heather Duke that she originated in the 1989 film . However , the Parkland school shooting affected the shows premiere , which was delayed because of its dark tone and themes of high school violence . In June 2018 , the network chose to pull the show altogether . Ultimately , the series aired over five nights in October 2018 . Doherty once more reprised her role of Brenda Walsh for the six-episode sequel BH90210 , which debuted August 7 , 2019 on FOX . Personal life . In early 1993 , Doherty was briefly engaged to Max Factor heir Dean Jay Factor before he filed for a restraining order on May 25 , 1993 . He alleged physical violence and threats on the part of Doherty , although Dohertys father claimed that the abuse came from Factor and not her . On October 11 , 1993 , Doherty married Ashley Hamilton , the son of actor George Hamilton . They filed for divorce in April 1994 . In 1996 , Doherty became the godmother to Cooper Smith London , the daughter of actor Jason London and actress Charlie Spradling . In 2002 , Doherty married Rick Salomon , but the marriage was annulled after nine months . On October 15 , 2011 , Doherty married photographer Kurt Iswarienko in Malibu , California . In November 2018 , Doherty lost her house to the Woolsey Fire . Bad-girl reputation . Beginning with her time working on Beverly Hills , 90210 , Doherty gained a reputation in the media for bad behavior that dominated her public image for many years . People Magazine has called her the iconic Hollywood bad girl of the nineties . Between 1992 and 1994 , coverage alleging fighting between Doherty and her co-stars dominated tabloid headlines , particularly concerning her heated feud with Jennie Garth , and further reports of heavy partying , on-set lateness , and physical fights . The zine Ben Is Dead , which published a newsletter called I Hate Brenda at the height of the shows popularity , even opened a hotline called the Shannen Snitch Line to which people could call in and report gossip about Doherty . This reputation gained further ground during her three seasons on Charmed , when tabloids fueled rumors of a feud with co-star Alyssa Milano . In both instances , Doherty departed the shows acrimoniously after a few seasons ; on Charmed she was allegedly fired by producer Aaron Spelling after an ultimatum from Milano . 90210 executive producers Darren Star and Charles Rosin have both confirmed that Doherty was difficult on-set ; Rosin commented that ...she had habitual lateness . Her lateness was appalling , and she had a callous attitude and an indifference . Jennie Garth has admitted that the two of them often wanted to claw each others eyes out , and at one point it escalated into physical violence ; nonetheless , she has said the feud was mutual and based more on immaturity than true animosity . Doherty , for her part , has admitted to making mistakes , blaming her behavior on the pressures of fame , her youth , and problems in her personal life . In 2010 , she stated : I have a rep . Did I earn it ? Yeah , I did . But , after a while you sort of try to shed that rep because youre kind of a different person . Youve evolved and all of the bad things youve done in your life have brought you to a much better place . Politics and activism . Doherty is a registered Republican . According to Complex magazine , she said : I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats . I have no problem with that . And they should have no problem with the fact that Im a Republican . An avid animal rights activist , Doherty is a supporter of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society , and while performing the Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014 she challenged founder Paul Watson and global supporters of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society . Health . In 1999 , Doherty revealed she had been diagnosed with Crohns disease . Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2015 , which had spread to her lymph nodes . In February 2016 , Doherty revealed that she was receiving anti-estrogen treatment to shrink the tumor and enable treatment by lumpectomy rather than mastectomy . Due to the presence of multiple tumors a lumpectomy was not possible , and a single mastectomy was performed in May 2016 . Surgery revealed that some of the cancer cells may have spread beyond the lymph nodes . Because the cancer was more advanced than previously thought , Doherty underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy following surgery . On April 29 , 2017 , Doherty announced that her cancer was in remission . On February 4 , 2020 , Doherty announced her cancer had returned a year prior , and that she is now stage four . Doherty said that her close friend , Anne Marie Kortright , has stood by her during her battle with cancer .