Shannen Doherty, the raven-haired performing artist known for playing persistent characters within the 1990s TV shows âBeverly Slopes, 90210â and âCharmed,â and who had attempted for a long time to shed her defiant notoriety, kicked the bucket on Saturday at her home in Malibu, Calif. She was 53.
The cause was cancer, her marketing specialist, Leslie Sloane, said in a messaged explanation.
Ms. Doherty learned she had breast cancer in February 2015 and had been open about her struggle with it for a long time. In the summer of 2016, she shaved her head as a group of companions stood by, and in 2017, she declared that the cancer was in remission. It returned in 2020, and in June 2023, Ms. Doherty declared that the cancer had spread to her brain. In November, she said it had spread to her bones.
But she proceeded to work and began a podcast that month.
âIâm not done with living. Iâm not done with cherishing. Iâm not done with making. Iâm not done with ideally changing things for the better,â she told the magazine. âIâm not done.â
After a long time, she had moved away from playing high-drama characters, and in 2021, she featured in two movies for the Lifetime cable arrangement, playing a mother in both.
Marriage
Ms. Dohertyâs relational unions with the on-screen character Ashley Hamilton and the poker player Rick Salomon ended in separation. She recorded for separate from her third spouse, the Hollywood representation picture taker Kurt Iswarienko, in May 2023.
Ms. Dohertyâs mother survives her, but total data about her survivors was not quickly accessible.
In an interview with The Unused York Times in 2008, Ms. Doherty talked about the serious media scope of her individual life.
âNobody likes to peruse awful things composed approximately themselves,â she said, âand an endless lionâs share of them were overstated or totally wrong. But to be totally legitimate, I do not indeed think around that any longer. At a certain point, youâve got to move on.â
