1. Tiffani Amber Thiessen was born on January 23,1974 and is an American actress.
21 Facts About Tiffani Thiessen
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Tiffani Thiessen directed the short film Just Pray, for which she earned a nomination from the Tribeca Festival for Best Narrative Short.
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Tiffani Thiessen hosted the Cooking Channel series Dinner at Tiffani's and the MTV comedy clip show Deliciousness.
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Tiffani Thiessen was born in Long Beach, California, the daughter of Robyn, a homemaker, and Frank Tiffani Thiessen, a park designer and landscape architect.
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Tiffani Thiessen has credited her brother, Todd, as one of her most important sources of inspiration, and her mother and grandmother as role models.
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Tiffani Thiessen participated in beauty pageants during her childhood and was crowned Miss Junior America in 1987.
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The success of the show gave her career a boost and Tiffani Thiessen received Young Artist Award nominations for Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast in 1990 and Best Young Actress Starring in an Off-Primetime Series in 1991 and 1993.
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Tiffani Thiessen then continued with starring in spin-off Saved by the Bell: The College Years in its single season and in television movie Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas, which marked the end of the original Saved by the Bell series.
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In 1994, after her tenure on Saved by the Bell had ended, Tiffani Thiessen landed the role of Valerie Malone in Fox's Aaron Spelling-produced hit teen-drama Beverly Hills, 90210, to fill the void after Shannen Doherty's departure.
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Tiffani Thiessen was the first actress to directly join the main cast of the show and portrayed Valerie until 1998, when she left in the early episodes of the ninth season of the show.
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Tiffani Thiessen was Spelling's first choice to replace Doherty in the series Charmed in 2001, but she refused his offer because she was hoping the NBC pilot for Everything But the Girl would be picked up.
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Tiffani Thiessen appeared with her husband Brady Smith on the September 6,2009 episode of season four of the reality show HGTV Design Star.
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From 2009 through 2014 Tiffani Thiessen appeared in the USA Network crime series White Collar as Elizabeth Burke.
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On February 4,2015, Tiffani Thiessen reunited with Saved By the Bell costars Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Elizabeth Berkley, Dennis Haskins and Mario Lopez on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, in which they appeared in a Saved by the Bell sketch with host Jimmy Fallon.
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In March 2020, it was announced that Tiffani Thiessen would join the cast of the Saved by the Bell sequel series, reprising her role as Kelly Kapowski.
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Tiffani Thiessen was a teen idol during the 1990s, starting from her role as cheerleader Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell and then playing bad girl Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills, 90210.
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Tiffani Thiessen dated her Saved by the Bell co-stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Mario Lopez.
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In early 1992, Tiffani Thiessen started dating her future 90210 co-star Brian Austin Green, introduced by mutual friend David Faustino.
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Tiffani Thiessen married actor Brady Smith on July 9,2005, and they have two children: a daughter born in 2010, and a son born in 2015.
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Tiffani Thiessen served as maid of honor at 90210 co-star and best friend Jennie Garth's 2001 wedding to actor Peter Facinelli, with whom she co-starred on Fastlane.
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Garth and Tiffani Thiessen's friendship has since come to an end.