23 January 1974, Long Beach, California, USA
Birth Name
Tiffany Amber Thiessen
Nickname
Tiff
Height
5' 5" (1.65 m)
Mini Biography
Tiffani-Amber Thiessen was built-in on January 23, 1974, in Long Beach, California, USA, to Frank Thiessen, a esplanade designer, and Robyn Ernest, a homemaker. She grew up in Long Beach with her parents and her brothers, able cyclist Todd (b. 1968) and Schuyler (b. 1977). Back Tiffani was 8, her uncle, Roger Ernest, appropriate that she try acting and modeling. Soon afterward, she appeared in her aboriginal TV commercial, for Peaches and Cream Barbie. From there she started aggressive in several adorableness pageants and, in 1987, she won the Miss Junior America pageant.She got her big-screen breach back she was casting as the accepted cheerleader Kelly Kapowski on the NBC alternation "Saved by the Bell" (1989), which lasted for bristles years. But this was not at all the end of her career. Coinciding with the abandoning of the brief "Saved by the Bell: The College Years" (1993), she was casting as the bitchy, conniving coquette Valerie Malone on Aaron Spelling's long-running hit alternation "Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990). Here, she played the connected adversary of Kelly Taylor, played by Jennie Garth, although in absolute life, the two are absolutely best friends. Tiffani additionally lived with co-star Brian Austin Green for several years. She backward with the appearance until 1998 and again larboard to accompany her cine career. The aftereffect was two absolute movies, followed by two comedies and again Hollywood Ending (2002), in which she starred alongsideWoody Allen.
She met amateur Richard Ruccolo while starring as Marti in the hit ball "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place" (1998) area in 2001, the brace became engaged. During the abatement of 2002, she absorbed up with best acquaintance Jennie's husband, Peter Facinelli, and Bill Bellamy on Fox's action/drama series, "Fastlane" (2002), area she starred as Billie Chambers, but the appearance was canceled afterwards one season. In 2003, Tiffani bankrupt off her assurance to Richard Ruccolo and in 2005, she affiliated amateur Brady Smith.
Spouse
Brady Smith | (9 July 2005 - present) 1 child |
Trade Mark
Soft mellow voice
Trivia
Became affianced to amateur Richard Ruccolo in October 2001.Broke off assurance with amateur Richard Ruccolo in April 2003.
Has two dogs, Buck and Pearl, and two cats, Sadie and Savannah.
Is a abutting acquaintance of extra Jennie Garth.
Attended Valley Professional High School in Studio City, California; called chic valedictorian in 1992.
Won the Miss Junior America adorableness celebration [1987]
Won Teen Magazine's Great Model Search [1988]
Made Cover Babe Magazine's Model of the Year [1989]
Admitted an advancing attempt to fit Hollywood's waifish adorableness ideal.
Early on into production, was advised for the role of Corley James in her cine Just Pray (2005) afore acceptable administrator of the film.
Tied with addition girl, Tiffany Weber, for the acme of Teen Magazine's Great Model Search 1988.
Listed her Studio City home at $2.8 million. The house, congenital in 1963, has bristles bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms in hardly beneath than 5,000 aboveboard feet. [2004]
Started her own assembly company, Tit 4 Tat Productions.Taking the admonition of her uncle, screenwriter/actor Roger Ernest, she began clay at the age of eight.
Her ancestor is of German descent. Her mother is of Greek, Turkish, and Welsh descent.
The guests at her bells included "Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990) co-stars Jason Priestley, Tori Spelling, and Lindsay Price.
Romantically affiliated to David Strickland at the time of his afterlife [1999]
Was offered a role on "Charmed" (1998) to alter Shannen Doherty, but angry it down. [2001]
Wedding dress was advised by Vera Wang [2005]
Accepted an allurement to serve on the National Advisory Council of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. [2006]
Ranked #43 in "100 Greatest Teen Stars" (2006).
Volunteered at Affected Rainbow Gold, a summer affected for accouchement stricken with cancer, amid abreast Ketchum, Idaho, USA. [2006].
Ranked #95 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002).
Her average name Amber, was called by her grandmother. She initially alone it from her name professionally, in adjustment to be taken added actively as an actress.
Won the CLCA Green Image Award presented by the "Green Expo/Green Image Awards" for her contributions to advice association apprentice acceptable active techniques and abutment the California Green Movement [2009].
Made USA arrangement audience casting history, back the role of Elizabeth Burke on "White Collar" (2009) took her no added than 3 hours to apprehend for her arena with Tim DeKay afore it was assuredly absitively that she was cast.
Middle sister of Todd Tesen and Schuyler Thiessen.
She and her husband, Brady Smith, are assured their aboriginal babyish in May 2010 [November 9, 2009].
Daughter, Harper Renn Smith, was built-in on June 15, 2010. She advised in at 8 lbs. 3 oz.
Personal Quotes
There are too abounding rotten things in this world, and if I can put a smile on one little girl's face, one little boy's face, again I've done my job. - on acting professionally in appearance business.My mom consistently accomplished me to be candied and affable and cantankerous my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a abominable babe already in a while. - actuality a feminine woman.
People apprehend me to be attenuate and perfect... I'm not.
My dog and two bodies are such a basic allotment of my life. To say that I am their buyer doesn't reflect at all the abstruse band and albatross that I accept appear them. Therefore, I thoroughly abutment In Defense of Animals' action to advance 'guardian' instead of owner.
I've apparent the furnishings of drugs too often. My brother had a big botheration with them for bristles years. He's bigger now, but I've never bare or capital to be complex with them.
It's abundant added absorbing to comedy the bitch.
When you collaborate with addition you consistently booty article from them.
I'm a appealing big clothes horse. I boutique for clothes constantly. I do so abundant shopping. I should go to Shoppers Anonymous.
The weight issues is a huge one that arises about in every woman. But I don't anticipate it's added it's consistently been there. Since the 1920's women accept been encouraged to be thin. But alike that is dictated by fashion. It alternates amid actuality absolutely angular and actuality healthy.
I deathwatch up every morning and I'm beholden for what I have. I've been adored with a lot of admirable things and I try to reflect on that every adventitious I can."I was never clean, prissy and absolute like Kelly, and I was never a pot-smoking abandoned like Valerie. Kelly was the cheerleader and the absolute babe abutting door, and actuality that I grew up in the business, I never went to school. I was never a cheerleader. I never went to the prom. I didn't accept any of those experiences".
I adulation to boutique for lingerie! My drawer for my lingerie is apparently as big as my drawer for sweats and jeans. It's actually huge.
I would adulation to be actually attenuate and be able to eat whatever I like, but I don't accept a botheration with my body. I like my body. I don't demand to accomplish myself crazy watching my weight.
It's never actually been a adamantine affair for me for some reason. After the aboriginal time, it was, like, no big deal. All the guys on 90210 amusement me with absolute respect. They don't try anything.
I was actually afraid back I won, 'cause that year those girls were actually gorgeous. On acceptable in Teen Magazine.
I've calm pigs back I was actually little, miniature pigs and actuality like that.
In this business, you've got to booty a lot of rejection-and you can't booty it personally. If you're not chosen, you're either not accessible or not appropriate for it. My mom acclimated to acquaint me that a craven never wins, and a champ never quits. And that's article I've consistently gone by.
I'm a actual airy actuality and to apperceive that now women are able to do aloof as abundant as men is actually great...Working for myself and actuality adolescent and actuality a woman, I can assuredly get account from people...I beggarly I've got my own house, I've got my career set--nobody can acquaint me I can't do it.My brother Todd's been a actually big afflatus to me. He's had a lot of problems, and how he's appear out of it is aloof amazing. Knowing addition who's been at the basal and actually restructured themselves...makes me anticipate I could do anything. I accept absolute account for him.
Since I'm into modeling, I apperceive adolescent girls consistently try to watch their weight and what they attending like. And it is important to some admeasurement but...I've accepted girls who accept gone through a lot of problems with dieting, and it's not account it. It's abhorrent to anticipate that our association has to be tall, angular and beautiful. It's actually abhorrent that we accept to attending like that and it's not account it. It actually isn't. I've met a lot of admirable bodies who don't accept annihilation inside.
I would never do addition one but at the time it was fun."- On entering a adorableness celebration contest.
I aloof demand to accumulate arena article altered anniversary time out.It is the aforementioned affair best actors demand in their careers; the adventitious to do a array of characters. Otherwise, you end up arena the aforementioned actualization over and over afresh until it gets absolute boring. That's not how I demand to absorb my life.
"To us, it was this admirable little actualization that was on adjoin a agglomeration of cartoons on Saturday morning. None of us accepted it to aftermost actual long. We didn't apprehend annihilation big was accident until our aboriginal claimed appearance, and again we were abashed out of our minds. We went to a capital and there were 4,000 agreeable kids cat-and-mouse for us. They were disturbing off our clothes and allurement for the cups of baptize that we were bubbler from. We kept attractive at anniversary added in amazement. We had no abstraction this was happening, and I still don't accept it." On the success of"Saved by the Bell" (1989).
The champ never loses, and the also-ran never wins.
"Honestly, I accept a acceptable timefood. And I'm never activity to be stick attenuate like Kate Moss. But, I don't eat like a pig".
"They never let me authority the Barbie I alone got to authority Ken. I assumption I wasn't albino enough".
I actually don't accept a career plan. I like actuality challenged and befuddled around. But it's alone acting.
I'm actual beholden for what I accept been accustomed and wouldn't change anything. I feel that we are accustomed aggregate we accept for a reason, both acceptable and bad, and that we apprentice from them. This is what gives us character.
I anticipate bodies in the ball acreage accept no privacy. All the tabloids demand to see is a actuality abort at something.
It was so abundant fun activity from arena a acceptable babe to a bad girl.
I like arena Valerie. She's a chameleon. One moment she's absorbing and the abutting she's a 'you apperceive what'. I like her because she's so alternate -- she's two altered characters in one.
I consistently feel that aggregate you do in activity is a acquirements acquaintance and that you become a wiser actuality for it.
It's actually difficult but it's affectionate of the amount you pay aback you're in this affectionate of business. And I wouldn't barter it for anything.
I actually don't attending at my activity as actuality an accomplishment. I'm aloof actual beholden for what I've been given.
I'd say I've enjoyed every role that I've done in my life.
"Jennie Garth is my abutting friend".
I like a man to be romantic, accept a faculty of humor, independent, actually and accept audible goals for himself.
"If you assignment with Aaron Spelling and he brand you, you'll consistently assignment for Aaron. And accept me, that's not a bad thing".
If I didn't assignment out, it'd be a disaster. The weight affair has been a actually big affair for me all my life. I appear from an ample family, and in this business, it's article you artlessly can't be. I adulation eating, but I assignment out six canicule a week, usually for an hour and a half.
What do I wanna do 10 years from now? I adulation accomplishing TV and I achievement I can do it as continued as I can. Some day I demand to get affiliated and accept a family. And I would adulation to travel. I demand to go aback to Australia - absolutely.
If it were appropriate for the role, I'd do it. If it was `lose weight aloof to lose weight,' they'd get a nice 'no thanks!'
I anticipate guys are abashed by any woman who appears to be strong. Now women are so independent, which I am. But I try to break that by allurement men out. I'm not activity to wait.
I've had to attempt with my weight back I was 17. There's a lot of added burden because I assignment with so abounding beautiful, attenuate people, and I've been asked to lose weight afore by producers. It actually hurts but that's allotment of what this business is about. Bodies apprehend me to be attenuate and absolute and I'm not.
"We accept one of those friendships that started continued ago, so I'm actually beholden for it, and I apperceive I'll accept it for the blow of my life." On her accord with Jennie Garth.It's affectionate of the aforementioned affair with TV and film. I have a good timeboth! I anticipate they're both difficult and advantageous in altered means and I would like to accumulate up with both abandon to accumulate it going.
"I adulation her like a sister, "I acquaint her everything." On best acquaintance Jennie Garth.
"I beggarly there's things I'm abashed about, but I don't anticipate I'm anytime abashed of annihilation aloof because my ancestors approved to advise me, back I was young, that I should never be agitated or feel bad about the decisions I make, in my life, and that you apprentice from them and you move on. So I don't anticipate I can candidly say that I'm abashed on something. I've been abashed about assertive things, in my life, but never ashamed. We're all human, you know! We accomplish mistakes, but we apprentice from them.
"When addition can accomplish me beam from like the central out, that's usually back I feel the best happy. And it's usually advancing from my boyfriend, my ancestors and my abutting friend".
My aboriginal date anytime was absolutely with my actual aboriginal boyfriend. We concluded up actuality calm for absolutely awhile, four and a bisected years. But it was absolutely with his sister who was absolutely earlier - a lot earlier than him, affectionate of like a guardian and...my mother, that was my aboriginal date and we went to the movies. It was absolutely funny because, you know, they were absolutely adage 'we'll let you sit abroad from us and we'll sit back' and I'm like 'okay that's gonna be REALLY strange. So why don't you aloof sit with us and we'll watch the cine and we'll go home.
"I'll never balloon that reading; it was an amazing experience. You appear into the allowance and attending over and see this amazing ability sitting there, this legend. It was all actual exciting, but to this day, I still don't apperceive what the cine is about. That's aloof how Woody works." On Woody Allenand the blur Hollywood Ending (2002).It was so funny account like the aboriginal time they gave me a gun to shoot they were like 'Do you apperceive how to shoot this?' And I'm like, 'Yeah, my dad accomplished me aback I was 17'. And they're like 'What!?' Ya know? So this appearance is so abundant like me that it's absolutely kinda fun you know."
It's a actual sweet, simple story, It is article that has been actual abutting to my affection for a continued time. The hardest allotment was assuredly adage yes and committing; it was the bearing ancillary that was harder for me, aggravating to acquisition a aggregation we could assurance and aftermath it with us.Everybody remembers you from your aftermost bristles minutes, and I don't anticipate bodies took me seriously. Actuality a woman doesn't help, and accepting bodies bethink me from the types of shows that I've done doesn't either. But I never like things to appear easy, and this wasn't."- On her aboriginal bearing activity Aloof Pray (2005).
I don't apperceive if I adopt one or the other. I can't absolutely say,they're both absolutely challenging, and they're both absolutely fun.
Luckily I accept a actual type-A personality and I'm actual advertent of my surroundings,I anticipate that's apparently because I'm a woman and because I am an actress. I tend to watch what I do, and like any acceptable actor, you consistently watch your ambience and you accept to your adolescent actors. I anticipate that absolutely helped me. Anytime I was on the set as an actress, I was consistently that babe who sat abutting to the camera and was like, `What does that do? What does this do?' And for years and years I was like that, but that was aloof me actuality curious. Luckily it paid off in the continued run.
"It's not aberrant for actors to get complex in the development and assembly ancillary of the camera. Look at Drew Barrymore and her Flower Films or Sandra Bullock and Fortis Films. The account goes on. Accepting spent so abounding years on sets, alive with altered levels of actual and architecture so abounding relationships with people, I acquainted able and able to actualize a business article that would acquiesce me to absolute and aftermath while complimenting my acting career. To abide constipate and alone focus on acting would be abbreviate sighted. And, aback I adulation the business and it's all I've anytime known, it was a accustomed progression to alpha such a company".
Since I started out actual young, I absolutely knew area he was advancing from, and I knew his absorption amount was apparently a lot beneath than us adults. I had to comedy with that and assignment with that, but he absolutely did accord a admirable performance.
It was such a absolute day and a absolute weekend. We had such an amazing time with our accompany and our ancestors and seriously, not one affair went wrong. We were actual adored to accept aggregate go so beautifully. Every time I anticipate about it, I get giddy. On her bells to Brady Smith.
We did the killing arena in one day - I was so drained I got aback to the auberge and went, 'Masseuse! - On filming A Killer Among Accompany (1992) (TV).
I'm a actual chargeless spirit; there are two abandon to me, completely. If I could booty you into my closet, you'd go, 'Yep, you're right.' It's breach appropriate bottomward the middle. I accept aloof as abounding sweatshirts as I accept sweaters. I accept aloof as abounding jeans as I accept atramentous pants.
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