But before all that, Doherty already had a full acting resume by the time she was 17.
“My first job with the amazing Michael Landon producing.
… We worked in Tucson, Arizona in 100-degree plus weather wearing buckskins and I loved every minute.
It remains one of my fondest memories.”
Shannen Doherty was hired to play Jenny Wilder, the niece of Almanzo Wilder, Laura’s husband.
She came to live with the Wilders in Walnut Grove after the death of her father.
“It let me find a little bit of peace and discover who I was as a person.”
Sadly, in 2015, Doherty wasdiagnosed with breast cancer, a battle she has been fighting ever since.
“I definitely have days where I say why me?”
Doherty shared on"Good Morning America.
““And then I go, well, why not me?
Who else besides me deserves this?
None of us do.”
