The Hollywood star’s long-time spokeswoman confirmed this to “People” magazine. According to the statement, the actress lost her long-term battle with cancer on Saturday, July 13. She had only started chemotherapy once more in June. “The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by her loved ones and her dog ‘Bowie’,” the statement continued. The family asked for privacy.
Doherty announced in 2015 that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She fought the disease for years – explicitly publicly, to encourage other sufferers. In November, she was still combative in an interview with the US celebrity magazine “People”: “I’m not done with life yet. I’m not done with love yet,” she said at the time.
“Little House on the Prairie” and “90210”
Born on April 12, 1971 in Memphis, Doherty became a teen idol in the 90s with her role on “90210.” However, she already had a lot of acting experience behind her, as Doherty had already started acting as a child. She was seen in the classic series “Little House on the Prairie,” for example.
However, Shannen Doherty’s real breakthrough came with “Beverly Hills, 90210”. In it, she played Brenda Walsh, a student from a humble background who has to assert herself in the rich society of her fellow students. However, Doherty soon fell out with some of her colleagues and was removed from the series in the fourth season of the format in 1994.
Reputation as a difficult artist
Even then, Doherty had earned a reputation as a difficult artist, dubbed a “bad girl” by the media because she was chronically late for set, attracted attention with her alcohol binges, and clashed with colleagues and bosses. Nevertheless, successful producer Aaron Spelling, who was also behind “90210,” brought her into the series “Charmed” in 1998, where Doherty took on the role of Prue Halliwell, the eldest of the three sisters with magical powers. This format was also a hit.
“I was brought up to have an opinion and was used to having that opinion valued,” Doherty recalled in a podcast in 2023. “That’s why I kept running once morest the treadmill, picking fights with men who didn’t want to hear my opinion.”
In 2008 and 2009, Shannen Doherty returned to her lifelong role of Brenda Walsh, which she played once more in the first season of the Beverly Hills spinoff “90210”. Otherwise, the artist’s life in recent years has been marked by her commitment to animal welfare and once morest cancer. Shannen Doherty has now lost this battle.
