19 Glorious Vintage Pictures of the Late Shannen Doherty

For children of the 1980s and ’90s who grew up eagerly tuning in to watch California’s golden youth in Beverly Hills, 90210, or the adventures of the kind-hearted Halliwell witches in Charmed, a cult-favorite series of the 2000s, Brenda Walsh and Prue Halliwell were more than just beloved television characters. Sharp, captivating, and a bit rebellious, they felt thrillingly real—and were always closely associated with the woman behind them, Shannen Doherty.

The Memphis native was discovered at age 11 by Michael Landon, who cast her as Jenny, Laura Ingalls’s niece, in Little House on the Prairie. She would later appear in Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, 21 Jump Street, and Heathers, alongside a young Winona Ryder, before Beverly Hills, 90210 catapulted her to teen-idol status.

Doherty was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, going into remission two years later. In 2020, however, she announced that the cancer had returned; and by June 2023, it had spread to her brain. Doherty’s death was announced by her publicist, Leslie Sloane, on Saturday, July 13.

Here, Vogue pays tribute to Doherty’s life and career with a look back at some of her most memorable screen roles—and some deliciously ’90s moments on the red carpet.