Shannen Doherty, known for her roles in 'Beverly Hills, 90210' and 'Charmed,' has passed away at the age of 53.

 The debut of "Beverly Hills, 90210," the character Doherty would be associated with for the remainder of her life, was her big break.

After battling breast cancer for a number of years, Shannen Doherty, a young actor who rose to fame in the 1990s while starring in the high school drama "Beverly Hills, 90210," passed away on Saturday.

"Actress Shannen Doherty passed away, and I confirm this with heavy heart. After battling the illness for many years, she lost her fight with cancer on Saturday, July 13, according to Doherty's publicist Leslie Sloane. 

53 was her age.Doherty went into remission two years after receiving her initial breast cancer diagnosis in 2015. That relief was only temporary. According to court records in a case Doherty filed in February 2020 against her insurance provider for home damage, she was "dying" from Stage 4 breast cancer, which She revealed on Instagram in June 2023 that she had brain metastases from her disease at the start of the year.

In the caption 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."


The next year, series creator Michael Landon cast the budding performer as Laura on his popular series "Little House on the Prairie."

The arrival of "Beverly Hills, 90210," the role 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 programmer 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 programmers.


"Before there were real reality-TV stars, she became a metaphorical reality star,"

"Leaving '90210' at the right time was the best thing that could have happened to me," Doherty stated to Entertainment Weekly in 2008. It helped me develop my personal identity and achieve a small amount of serenity. Not the person the media painted me as because I had gone through some difficult times in my personal life, was having trouble identifying a poor partner or husband, and was doing it in public, so I wasn't handling any of it well. Actually, I wasn't. And I am aware of that.

Jason Priestley, Doherty's co-star, expressed his sadness on social media upon learning of her passing, stating that she was "a force of nature and