Jennie Garth Biography
Born: April 3, 1972
One of the stars of Fox's long-running prime-time teen show Beverly_Hills,_90210, Jennie Garth also branched out into made-for-TV films and B-movies. Born in Urbana, Illinois, and raised on a farm until her family relocated to Arizona, Garth studied dance and worked as a model before moving to L.A. at age 16 to pursue acting. She was cast in the short-lived series A_Brand_New_Life (1989) before landing the star-making role of blonde Beverly Hills princess Kelly Taylor on Beverly_Hills,_90210 in 1990. With Kelly enduring numerous nighttime drama catastrophes while aging from spoiled teen vixen to grounded 25-year-old, Garth stayed with the show for its entire ten-year run. Bolstering her TV series fame with TV movies, beginning with the adaptation of the Danielle_Steele romance Star (1993), Garth also played the eponymous abused wife in Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994), a serial killer target in Falling for You (1995), and executive-produced and starred in the teen psychiatric drama Without_Consent (1994). After the B-thrillers Power_98 (1996) and My_Brother's_War (1997), Garth focused more exclusively on the last several seasons of 90210 and starting a family with actor-husband Peter_Facinelli, whom she met while filming An_Unfinished_Affair (1996). In 2002, Garth was cast in her own series, playing big sister to Amanda Bynes in the WB series What I Like About You, which found Garth's character caring for the teenager in their parents' absence. She stayed with the series for four years until 2007, when she was cast as a mom confronted with the possibility of HIV becoming a part of her family life in Girl, Positive. Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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