Shannen Doherty died on July 13, 2024, leaving behind a treasure trove of teen angst stardom in Beverly Hills, 90210 and magical moments as a witch in Charmed—but her career spanned more than the two series for which she was best known.
With roots in child stardom and key roles in cult classic movies, Doherty's career should have soared—but rumors of rifts onset with co-stars made her reputation, however fairly or unfairly, precede her.
“I have a rep. Did I earn it? Yeah, I did. But, after a while you sort of try to shed that rep because you’re kind of a different person,” Doherty told Parade in 2019. “You’ve evolved and all of the bad things you’ve done in your life have brought you to a much better place.”
Still, she was a hard worker and was determined to keep going, even when fighting stage IV metastatic cancer.
"I don't want to die," she told PEOPLEin November 2023. "I'm not done with living. I'm not done with loving. I'm not done with creating. I'm not done with hopefully changing things for the better."
Shannen Doherty's net worth at the time of her death.
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How did Shannen Doherty become famous?
Born April 12, 1971, Doherty started out as a child actor, starring in Little House on the Prairie, followed by the drama seriesOur House.She had a breakout on the big screen with Heathersas Heather Duke alongside Winona Ryder and Christian Slater in the 1988 dark comedy cult classic.
Her most famous role came in 1990 as Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210. Doherty had a reputation—debatably earned or not—for being difficult on set and having animosity with a lot of her castmates, and she was written off of the series in 1994. Tori Spelling, daughter of executive producerAaron Spelling, later claimed that she asked him to fire Doherty.
After leaving the teen soap, she starred in Kevin Smith's Mallrats, and in 1998, was cast as Prudence "Prue" Halliwell in Charmed. After three seasons, Doherty's character was killed off of the series after feuding with Alyssa Milano.
Since then, she's worked relatively consistently in TV (including reprising her role of Brenda Walsh in 2019 for 90210 at a reported $70,000 per episode) and written a book,Badass: A Hard-Earned Guide to Living Life with Style and (The Right) Attitude.
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What is Shannen Doherty's net worth?
Shannen Doherty's net worth at the time of her death was an estimated $5 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. However, that estimate likely wasn't taking the full costs of her medical bills into consideration— and they couldn't have been cheap.Doherty battled metastatic breast cancer off and on since 2015 until her death in July 2024.
She was also in litigation with her estranged husband Kurt Iswarienko, who she accused of prolonging their divorce to avoid paying her spousal support. She requested a little over $15,000 per month from her ex, in part to afford health insurance, as her coverage was dropped from SAG-AFTRA because she was unable to work while she was sick.
Days before her death, Dohertysaid on her podcast, Let's Be Clear With Shannen Doherty,"I guess I'm in a mindset now of I need to make as much money as humanly possible in the next two years, bank it, put it with my investment place, build that so that ... I don't have to work and I only work when I really want to. I can also go on a lot more vacations. Then also, when I pass away, my mom's got a nice little nest egg and I don't have to worry about her."
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How much did Shannen Doherty make on Charmed?
Doherty reportedly made about $75,000 per episode of Charmed. However, those figures haven't been substantiated.
When she left the show, it was clear there was bad blood.
"There was too much drama on the set and not enough passion for the work,” Doherty told Entertainment Tonight in 2001, adding, "Idon't have time for drama in my life anymore."
Doherty came forward in recent years and accused Milano of getting her fired from the show. Milano denied the allegations, which Holly Marie Combs corroborated.
Doherty refuted Milano's denial, saying in February 2024, "I recall the facts as if I were still living in them, and what I will say is that what somebody else may call drama is an actual trauma for me that I have lived with for an extremely long time. And it is only through my battle with cancer that I decided to address this trauma and be open and honest about it, so that I can actually heal from a livelihood that was taken away from me, a livelihood that was taken away from my family, because someone else wanted to be No. 1 on the call sheet. That is the truth."
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What did Shannen Doherty do after Charmed?
After leaving Charmed, Doherty appeared in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, followed by the reality series Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty. She hosted SyFy's Scare Tactics prank show from 2003 to 2008, starred in 90210 from 2008 to 2009 and competed on Dancing With the Stars in 2010.
In 2012, Doherty hosted the short-lived talk show Shannen Says, then starred in Off the Map in 2015.In 2019, she guest-starred in Riverdale, in which her Beverly Hills, 90210 co-star Luke Perry had a prominent role, and reprised her role of Brenda Walsh once more for the rebooted BH90210.
Throughout, she's also starred in a number of TV and video-on-demand films and launched her own podcast, Let's Be Clear With Shannen Doherty, in which she chronicled her cancer battle.
