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Shannen was born in Memphis, Tennessee on April 12, 1971
to parents Tom and Rosa. Her father worked in a bank while her mother owned
a beauty parlor. She has an older brother named Sean. In 1978 the young Shannen
(who was only seven at the time) and her family moved to Los Angeles, where
her father started a West Coast branch of the family transportation business.
Shannen has always been close to her family, who disciplined her from a young
age. She knew she wanted to pursue an acting career at the tender age of seven.
Things moved quickly, and she made her debut at age 10, with a role on the series
"Father Murphy" (1981). Shannen was a confident student, involving
herself in school performances and trying hard at class work, making sure she
always had exceptional grades. Despite her confidence, she kept to herself and
preferred to be alone rather than be with large groups of people. She cracked
into the entertainment world at just 11 years old, starring in "Little
House on the Prairie" (1974) as Jenny Wilder. It was Michael Landon who
noticed her performance in an episode of "Father Murphy" (1981), when
he decided to cast her. She then went on to appear in "Our House"
(1986) with Deidre Hall and Wilford Brimley. She also starred alongside Sarah
Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt in Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985) and then
in Heathers (1989), a teen comedy in which Winona Ryder also starred.
Shannen's real success came in 1990, at the age of 19, when
she secured a part on Aaron Spelling's teen drama, "Beverly Hills, 90210"
(1990) as the character Brenda Walsh, who was a teenage twin sister to Brandon
Walsh (Jason Priestley). She attracted a lot of attention from the press and
eventually gained celebrity status. It was a very successful popular teen drama
and teenage girls everywhere related to her character, Brenda Walsh. After four
years, Shannen left the show in 1994. She starred in Almost Dead (1994) and
Mallrats (1995) to keep her acting career alive. She was reunited with Aaron
Spelling when in 1998, she was offered the part of Prue Halliwell on "Charmed"
(1998), a show about three witches who protect the innocent. She starred alongside
Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs. After just 3 seasons, she left to work
on other projects, such as movies. She had directed three of the last episodes
she had starred in. She has already been in 3 movies since leaving "Charmed"
(1998), which are Another Day (2001) (TV), The Rendering (2002) (AKA: 'Portrait
of Murder'), Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay (2002) (TV), and Nightlight
(2003) (TV) (AKA: 'View of Terror'). She also hosted season one of "Scare
Tactics" (2003) and eight episodes of season two but left to pursue other
endeavors.
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