Jennie Garth Biography (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Jennifer Eve Antoinette Garth (born April 3, 1972 in Urbana, Illinois) is an American actress, best known for her roles of Kelly Taylor in Beverly Hills, 90210 and of Valerie Kelly Tyler in What I Like About You.

Early life

Jennifer Eve Garth was born in Illinois to John and Carolyn Garth, who each already had three children from different marriages. She grew up on a 25-acre horse ranch in Arcola, Illinois with her six older half-siblings: Johnny, Chuck, Lisa, Cammie, Wendy and Lynn. Jennie also lived in Tuscola, Illinois during her younger years. When Garth was 11, she and her family moved to Phoenix, Arizona. She took dancing lessons and did a little modeling while living there, at the time wanting to go to college and later start her own dance studio. At age 15, she was discovered and encouraged to pursue an acting career by a talent scout, who had seen her win a talent competition.

She dropped out of Greenway High School during her junior year, and she and her mother moved to Los Angeles so she could become an actress. She later obtained her diploma in California. There, she started taking acting classes and went to auditions almost every day. After living in L.A. about four months, she landed the role of 'Erica McCray' on the NBC series A Brand New Life (1989).

Career

Garth is best known for her role as the beleaguered Kelly Taylor on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210. At various points in the series, Garth's character was involved in a love triangle between Dylan McKay (Luke Perry) and Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestly), became a diet pill abuser, was trapped in a fire, became involved in a cult, used cocaine, was raped, shot, got amnesia and had a miscarriage. She and former costar Tiffani Thiessen are best friends.

Garth starred in the sitcom What I Like About You as Amanda Bynes' sister Valerie Tyler. Along with Leslie Grossman and Amanda Bynes, she starred on the show for all four seasons. Garth's story, "I Am Home," was featured in Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. She played the lead female role in the 1993 television production of Danielle Steel's Star.

In May 2008, TV Guide confirmed that Garth will reprise the role of Kelly Taylor in the new CW spin off of Beverly Hills, 90210. Kelly will be on recurring status as a guidance counselor at West Beverly High.

Dancing with the Stars

Garth appeared on Season 5 of Dancing with the Stars and was paired with Derek Hough. She was shockingly eliminated on the ninth week of competition finishing at a respectable fourth out of 12, after scoring her first perfect score of the competition with her Cha-Cha-Cha while Marie Osmond (who came in last place for three weeks up to that point) remained in the competition. In her exiting montage video, Derek Hough stated how proud he was of her for going on an emotional journey and improving from three 7's to three 10's.

Performances

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
		Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli
1	Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Uptown Girl"	7	7	7	Safe
2	Quickstep/ "Suddenly I See"	7	7	7	Safe
3	Tango/ "Cite Tango"	9	8	9	Safe
4	Paso Doble/ "Because We Can"	8	10	9	Safe
5	Samba/ "Cosmic Girl"	8	9	8	Safe
6	Mambo/ "Mambo Baby"	9	9	9	Safe
7	Viennese Waltz/ "Runaway" Rumba/ "Fallen"	9 9	8 9	9 10	Last One Saved
8	Jive/ "It Takes Two" Foxtrot/ "I've Got You Under My Skin"	8 9	8 9	8 8	Last One Saved
9 Semi-finals	Tango/ "The Take Over, The Breaks Over" Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Mustang Sally"	9 10	10 10	9 10	Eliminated

Popularity

Garth was ranked #41 in VH1's Top 100 Greatest Teen Stars

She also ranked #59 on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2000, and #93 on the magazine's 100 Sexiest Women of 2001.

Personal life

On April 16, 1994, Garth married musician Daniel B. Clark. They separated in January 1996 and Garth filed for divorce in November 1 of that year.

On January 20, 2001, she married actor Peter Facinelli; they met in 1995 while filming the movie An Unfinished Affair. They have three daughters: Luca Bella (born on June 22, 1997), Lola Ray (born on December 6, 2002) and Fiona Eve (born on September 30, 2006).

She speaks Italian fluently, and is a vegetarian.

She is a long-time sufferer of migraine headaches, for which she has done public service announcements on TV.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Power 98	Sharon Penn
1989	Just Perfect	---	TV-film
1994	Danielle Steel's Star	Crystal Wyatt	TV-film
	Without Consent	Laura Mills	TV-film
1995	Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg	Laurie Kellogg	TV-film
	Falling for You	Meg Crane	TV-film
1996	A Loss of Innocence	Chelnicia Bowen	TV-film
	An Unfinished Affair	Sheila Hart	TV-film
1997	My Brother's War	Mary Fagan Bailey
2001	How High	---
2003	Secret Santa	Rebecca Chandler	TV-film
	The Last Cowboy	Jacqueline 'Jake' Cooper	TV-film
2007	Girl, Positive	Sarah Bennett	TV-film
	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	---	Remake of the film from 1968

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980s	Growing Pains	---	1 episode, late 1980s
1989-1990	A Brand New Life	Ericka McCray	6 episodes
1990	Teen Angel	Karrie Donato
1990-2000	Beverly Hills 90210	Kelly Taylor
1993	Teen Angel Returns	Karrie Donato
1994	WrestleMania X	Herself	Guest timekeeper
2002-2006	What I Like About You	Valerie Tyler
2007	Dancing with the Stars	Herself	Season 5 Contestant
2008	90210	Kelly Taylor	Recurring Character

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