Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling (born May 16, 1973) is an
American actress. She is best known for being
Aaron Spelling's daughter and for her role as Donna
Martin in the 1990s teen soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210.
Biography
Early life
Spelling was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Candy Marer
(born Carole Gene Marer[1]) and famed TV producer
Aaron Spelling. 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.
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 from Los Angeles, 50 miles
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]
The Village News of Fallbrook, California, has reported that Spelling did not actually purchase the inn.[5]
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, McDermott a month later, on May 7, 2006, in
a barefoot ceremony in Fiji. The two met when they co-starred in
the TV movie Mind Over Murder.[6] McDermott's former wife, Mary Jo Eustace, who he divorced to
marry Spelling, has since written about the experience as part of the anthology The Other Woman.[7] McDermott and Eustace have two children: Jack Montgomery (b. October 10, 1998) and Lola (b. July 27,
2005).
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". In December
2006, Spelling stated that she wanted to write her memoir, to be published by Simon & Schuster in the spring of 2008.[8]
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 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.[9] Her brother, who was not
estranged from his mother, also received $800,000.[9]
Spelling gave birth to her first child, Liam Aaron McDermott (Aaron, for her deceased father) on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 in Los Angeles. Spelling said she and her mother had recently
reconciled. Reportedly, her mother was in the delivery room when Spelling gave birth. It has been reported that Candy Spelling
has established a $10 million trust fund for her first grandchild. [10]
Spelling has recently been ordained as a minister over the internet. She has,
by her own account, presided over five same-sex marriages.
Television work
Filmography
Footnotes
- ^ Birth name according to the State of California. California Birth Index,
1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At
Ancestry.com
- ^ http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=8179
- ^ Tori Spelling.
MORE TORi Cosmo Q&A. Retrieved on June 25, 2006.
- ^ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=14147
- ^ http://www.thevillagenews.com/story.asp?story_ID=22271
- ^ http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1144308,00.html
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Other-Woman-Twenty-one-Deception-Betrayal/dp/0446580228
- ^ http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003467907
- ^ a b Tori Spelling. Tori Won't Inherit the Earth. Retrieved on August 2, 2006.
- ^ http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20004211,00.html
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