Tori Spelling

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Tori Spelling

Tori Spelling in 2007
Born Victoria Davey Spelling
May 16, 1973 (1973-05-16) (age 35)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Spouse(s) Charlie Shanian (July 3, 2004 - April 20, 2006; divorced)
Dean McDermott (May 7, 2006 - present)

Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling (born May 16, 1973) is an American actress. She is known for being Aaron Spelling's daughter and for her role as Donna Martin in the 1990s teen soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Spelling was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Carole Gene "Candy Spelling" (née Marer) and famed TV producer Aaron Spelling.[1] Both of Spelling's parents were Jewish,[2] though her family celebrated both Christmas and Hanukkah while she was growing up.[3] She attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California but graduated from Harvard-Westlake School. Her brother, Randy Spelling, is an actor as well.

[edit] Career

Guest roles (mostly in her father's shows) such as The Love Boat, T.J. Hooker, Hotel, Fantasy Island, Vega$, and Saved by the Bell before landing a regular part in Beverly Hills 90210, a series co-produced by her father, Darren Star and Spelling Television.

Since 90210 went off the air, Spelling has worked primarily on independent films including Trick and The House of Yes. She also has appeared in small roles in big budget films, including Scream 2 and Scary Movie 2, and in TV shows, including Smallville.

More recently, Spelling has been the star of two reality-based shows. In 2006, she starred in the VH1 celebreality sitcom So NoTORIous, which parodied her public image. In January 2007, she and her second husband, the actor Dean McDermott, leased a bed & breakfast in Fallbrook, California (a rural community about 100 miles (160 km) from Los Angeles, 50 miles (80 km) from San Diego and just south of Temecula wine country). This became the basis of a new reality show, Tori & Dean: Inn Love, which premiered on the Oxygen network on March 20, 2007.[4]

It was announced in May 2008 that Spelling will reprise her role as Donna Martin on the new CW show 90210.[5]

Aside from her acting career, Spelling designs and markets her own line of fashion jewelery on HSN.

[edit] Personal life

On July 3, 2004, Spelling married Charlie Shanian. They separated in December 2005 and were legally divorced on April 20, 2006. Spelling married her second husband, Dean McDermott, a month later, on May 7, 2006, in a private, barefoot ceremony in Wakaya, Fiji. The two met when they co-starred in the TV movie Mind Over Murder. McDermott was married at the time to Mary Jo Eustace, whom he divorced to marry Spelling. Eustace has since written about the experience as part of the anthology The Other Woman[6] McDermott and Eustace have two children: Jack Montgomery (b. October 10, 1998) and adopted daughter Lola (b. July 27, 2005). Due to Dean's infidelity he removed himself from finalizing Lola's adoption, and has no legal responsibility for her.

During an appearance at the 2006 MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto on June 18th, Spelling was asked if she found it better dating a Canadian. Spelling replied "...they are much nicer, and have nasty ex-wives who write tell-all books".

After her father's death on June 23, 2006, Spelling was anticipated to inherit a sizable portion of her father's $300 million estate. The estate was to be divided primarily between Spelling, her brother Randy and her mother Candy. Spelling's mother was the estate executor. At the time, Spelling and her mother were estranged and it was reported that Spelling inherited just $800,000.[7] Her brother, who was not estranged from his mother, also received $800,000.[7]

Spelling gave birth to her first child, Liam Aaron McDermott ("Aaron" after her deceased father) on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at Cedars-Sinai Hospital via emergency C-section. Reportedly, her mother was in the delivery room when Spelling gave birth and have established a more connected relationship, though have not reached full harmony and reconciliation. It has been reported that Candy Spelling has established a $10 million trust fund for her first grandchild.[8] On Monday, June 9, 2008 Tori and her husband welcomed their second child together, a daughter named Stella Doreen McDermott ("Doreen" after Dean's late mother) by C-section.[9]

[edit] Television work

[edit] Filmography

[edit] References

  1. ^ A Look at Tori Spelling's Family Tree
  2. ^ JewishJournal.com
  3. ^ Tori Spelling. MORE TORi Cosmo Q&A. Retrieved on June 25, 2006.
  4. ^ SFGate: Daily Dish : Spelling and Husband Open New Inn
  5. ^ "Tori Spelling is Donna Martin=A Socialite's Life", 2008-05-28. 
  6. ^ Amazon.com: The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal: Victoria Zackheim: Books
  7. ^ a b Tori Won't Inherit the Earth. eonline.com. Retrieved on 2006-08-02.
  8. ^ Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott Welcome a Boy. People.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
  9. ^ Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott welcome daughter Stella Doreen. Celebrity-Babies. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  9. Tori Spelling welcomes baby girl. 
     http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20205095,00.html

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