Shannen Doherty’s television career took off at age 11 with her role on the final season of “Little House on the Prairie” before she appeared on the smash hit “Beverly Hills, 90210” as Brenda Walsh at age 19. She left the show in 1994 due to various on-set tensions. Doherty admitted she was unhappy during this period. “It’s just that the sacrifice at the time seemed too large to me,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “The sacrifice of a camera pointed in my face 24 hours a day while I was desperately trying to grow up, to figure out my spirituality, to figure out my boyfriends. I mean, I was a teenager.”
Doherty said that some of the problems she experienced in Hollywood at the time were due to her standing up for herself as a woman. “I didn’t placate the men in my business,” she recalled on her podcast. “And I certainly didn’t placate my bosses. I fought them.” Following her role on “Charmed,” she had a short-lived reality TV show in 2006 for the Oxygen network called “Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty,” and she appeared on “Dancing with the Stars” in 2010.
