Shannen Doherty

The quintessential Gen X girl

- JUDY BERMAN

SHANNEN DOHERTY EPITOMIZED THE EXPERIENCE OF GROWING up female in the '90s. Like her iconic Beverly Hills, 90210 character, Brenda Walsh, she contained a volatile mix of Gen X angst, teen fragility, and feminist grit. A porcelain-skinned, dark-haired drama queen in a world of tan, blond Valley Girls, Doherty owned her angry-young-woman identity before Courtney Love made it a trend.