The role eventually went to Rose McGowan.
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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. That year she also dropped her middle name which she had been including professionally for many years and is now credited as simply Tiffani Thiessen. In 2000, she was featured in the music video for " You're a God" by Vertical Horizon, portraying a beauty pageant contestant, in her first music video appearance. After her departure from the show, she appeared in a number of films, including Speedway Junky (1999), From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999), Love Stinks (1999) and The Ladies Man (2000) she also guest-starred on NewsRadio (1999), Two Guys and a Girl (2000), Just Shoot Me! (2001) and Good Morning, Miami (2003–04). While starring in 90210, Thiessen began to take on continuous dramatic leading roles in television films: The Stranger Beside Me (1995) and She Fought Alone (1995), Sweet Dreams and Buried Secrets in 1996. She was the first actress to join directly 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. In 1994, after her tenure on Saved by the Bell had ended, 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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She then continued with starring in spin-off Saved by the Bell: The College Years in its single season (1993–94) and in television movie Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas (1994), which marked the end of the original Saved by the Bell series. In 1992, she starred in her first television movies Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style and A Killer Among Friends, making her film debut in Son in Law in 1993. with Children, Charles in Charge and Step by Step. Simultaneously, Thiessen guest-starred on series such as Married. The success of the show gave her career a boost and Thiessen received Young Artist Award nominations for Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast in 1990 and Best Young Actress in an Off-Primetime Series in 19. In 1989, she was named Cover Girl's "Model of the Year", and landed her first role of Kelly Kapowski on NBC's television sitcom Saved by the Bell, starring until its end in 1993. The following year, she appeared on the cover of Teen magazine, having won the magazine's "Great Model Search". Thiessen participated in beauty pageants during her childhood and was crowned Miss Junior America in 1987.
My mom is very olive-skinned I get my blue eyes from my dad." Career German on one side, Greek, Turkish and Welsh on the other. I have so much of everything in me, and half of it I don't even know. Thiessen told InStyle magazine: "I'm a mutt.
She has credited her brother, Todd, as one of her most important sources of inspiration, and her mother and grandmother as role models. Thiessen was born in Long Beach, California, the daughter of Robyn (née Ernest), a homemaker, and Frank Thiessen, a park designer and landscape architect.