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Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (born January 23, 1974) is an American television and film actress. After many years of going by her full name, she is now credited as simply Tiffani Thiessen. January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as—in metonymy—the field in general. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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Career

She was born in Long Beach, California; her father, Frank, was a park designer and her mother, Robyn, was a homemaker. She is of German, Greek, Turkish and Welsh descent. She told InStyle, "I'm a mutt. I have so much of everything in me, and half of it I don't even know. German on one side; Greek, Turkish and Welsh on the other. My mom is very olive-skinned; I get my blue eyes from my dad." [1] Her brother, Todd, was a really big inspiration to her, and her biggest role models were her mother and grandmother. [2] Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: Government Country State County United States California Los Angeles County Mayor Bob Foster Geographical characteristics Area 170. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The Welsh are an ethnic group associated with Wales and the Welsh language, which is a Celtic language. ... The word mutt may be used to describe a person of multiracial descent. ...


As a child, she competed in many beauty pageants, and she won the Miss Junior America pageant in 1987. Her first big break in show business was her role on the television program Saved By The Bell, as nice girl Kelly Kapowski, a role she continued playing in the short lived Saved by the Bell: The College Years. This was very different from her next major role, as a duplicitous vixen, Valerie, on Beverly Hills 90210. Mrs. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The entertainment industry consists of a large number of sub-industries devoted to entertainment. ... Saved by the Bell was an American teen sitcom which originally aired between 1989 and 1992 (with the series finale held over until 1993). ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Beverly Hills 90210 was a popular primetime television soap opera that aired from October 1990 to May 2000 on the Fox Network in the United States and subsequently on various networks around the world. ...


She later starred in the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl and the short-lived action show Fastlane, as well as guest-starring on Just Shoot Me!. Her transition to film has not gone well so far, as most of her movies, including Love Stinks, have been critically panned. In 2002, she appeared in the film Hollywood Ending by Woody Allen. In 2005, she released a short (21 minute) film she had directed called Just Pray. It placed at several film festivals and was the first major effort from her new production company, Tit 4 Tat Productions. A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Two Guys and a Girl Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (retitled Two Guys and a Girl in its third season) was a sitcom created by Kenny Schwartz and Danny Jacobson that ran on ABC for four seasons from 1998-2001. ... Fastlane is an action TV series that was broadcast on Fox from 2002 to 2003. ... Just Shoot Me! was an American television sitcom which aired for seven seasons on NBC from 1997 to 2003. ... Love Stinks is a 1999 comedy movie. ... Hollywood Ending is a 2002 film which tells a story of once-famous film director who turned blind given the intense pressure of directing. ... Woody Allen in the movie Anything Else 2003. ...


In March of 1999, her then-boyfriend, actor David Strickland, committed suicide and from October 2001 to April 2003, she was engaged to actor Richard Ruccolo, whom she had met during the Two Guys and a Girl run. On July 9, 2005, she married actor Brady Smith in the gardens of a private estate in Montecito, California. David Gordon Strickland Jr. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ... Richard Ruccolo (born on March 2, 1972 in Marlton, New Jersey) is an American actor. ... July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. ... Montecito is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Barbara County, California. ...


Selected filmography

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Tiffani Thiessen Photos - Tiffani Thiessen News - Tiffani Thiessen Information (574 words)
Tiffani was 8 when her uncle convinced her to try modeling.
Tiffani Thiessen: Hard work and a lot of heart will continue to be the cornerstones of my life's accomplishments.
Tiffani Thiessen: There are too many rotten things in this world, and if I can put a smile on one little girl's face, one little boy's face, then I've done my job.
TV's Beautiful Girls - Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (989 words)
Of course, Thiessen had already buried her 1989-94 image as Bell's goody-goody Kelly about six thousand feet under last September, when she joined 90210--and helped lift the series to its highest ratings ever--as Walsh family friend Valerie Malone, a guy-chasing, booze-swilling, pot-toking, college-sophomore hussy.
Landing the role wasn't automatic, even though Thiessen had inside connections in Green, whom she's been dating for 21/2 years (the two share a spacious house in the Hollywood Hills with her two golden retrievers, Bonnie and Clyde; his rottweiler, Alik; and two cats, Sadie and Savannah), and in Spelling, who had guest-starred on Bell.
Then there's the recent rumor that Thiessen and "Whoobie" (don't gag, but that's her nickname for Green--"it doesn't mean anything, but now everyone on the set calls him that"; his pet name for her is Dumdum, "'cause I'm so clumsy") are breaking up.
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