Who is Jennifer Eve Garth? The world knows her as Jennifer Garth, she is an American actress, best known for starring as Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills, 90210 and its third spinoff, 90210. She is also known for starring as Valerie Tyler in What I Like About You.
Jennifer Eve Garth was born April 3, 1972 in
Urbana, Illinois to John and Carolyn Garth, who each already had three children from different marriages. She grew up on a 25-acre (100,000 m2) horse ranch in Arcola, Illinois, with her six older half-siblings: Johnny, Chuck, Lisa, Cammie, Wendy and Lynn. Jennie also lived in Tuscola, Illinois, during her younger years. When Garth was 11, she and her family moved to Phoenix, Arizona. She took dancing lessons and did a little modeling while living there, at the time wanting to go to college and later dropped out of Greenway High School during her junior year, and she and her mother moved to Los Angeles so she could become an actress, later obtaining her diploma in California. There, she started taking acting classes and went to auditions almost every day. After living in L.A. about four months, she landed the role of Erica McCray on the NBC series A Brand New Life (1989).
In 1990, Garth landed her most famous role to date, that of Kelly Taylor on the television series
Beverly Hills, 90210. At various points in the series, Garth's
character was involved in a love triangle between 
Dylan McKay (Luke Perry) and 
Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestley), became a diet pill abuser, was trapped in a fire, became involved in a cult, used cocaine, was raped, shot, had amnesia and had a miscarriage. Garth appeared on the show for the full 10 seasons until its end in 2000, along with 
Ian Ziering, 
Tori Spelling, and 
Brian Austin Green.
In 2002, Garth starred in the sitcom 
What I Like About You as Amanda Bynes' sister Valerie Tyler. Along with Bynes, she starred on the show for all four seasons. In other roles, she also played the lead in a 1993 television production of 
Danielle Steel's Star and her story, "I Am Home," was featured in 
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul.
In September 2008, Garth returned to the role of Kelly Taylor on the series premiere of the CW Network's spin-off series, 90210 where she is reported making $40-50,000 per episode.[1] In the new series, Garth's character Kelly Taylor is now a guidance counselor at West Beverly High, where her half-sister
Erin Silver also attends.[2] Kelly now has a four and a half year old son with long-time flame 
Dylan McKay[3]. The writers were eager to have her share scenes with 
Shannen Doherty who is also reprising her 90210 role of Brenda Walsh.[4] It was reported that Garth and Doherty's characters would both have a romantic interest in the character Ryan Matthews 
(Ryan Eggold),[5] reminiscent of their old rivalry for former bad boy character Dylan McKay. G
arth and Doherty later confirmed that the reports about the love triangle between their characters were false.[6]
Garth
appeared on the U.S. game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on 21 November 2008. She won $100,000 for her charity, the American Heart Association.
In 2007, Garth appeared on Season 5 of 
Dancing with the Stars and was paired with 
Derek Hough. Garth had consistently high scores throughout the entire competition and was one of the few contestants to maintain 8s and above after week 2. She was eliminated on the ninth week of competition finishing at a respectable fourth out of 12, after scoring her first perfect score of the competition with her Cha-Cha-Cha [7] while 
Marie Osmond (who came in last place for three weeks up to that point) remained in the competition. The audience gave her a standing ovation (something very uncommon in the show). 
Judge Len Goodman stated that it "was not her time to go." In her exiting montage video, Derek Hough stated how proud he was of her for going on an emotional journey and improving from three 7's to three 10's.
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Jennifer Eve Garth was born April 3, 1972 in
Urbana, Illinois to John and Carolyn Garth, who each already had three children from different marriages. She grew up on a 25-acre (100,000 m2) horse ranch in Arcola, Illinois, with her six older half-siblings: Johnny, Chuck, Lisa, Cammie, Wendy and Lynn. Jennie also lived in Tuscola, Illinois, during her younger years. When Garth was 11, she and her family moved to Phoenix, Arizona. She took dancing lessons and did a little modeling while living there, at the time wanting to go to college and later dropped out of Greenway High School during her junior year, and she and her mother moved to Los Angeles so she could become an actress, later obtaining her diploma in California. There, she started taking acting classes and went to auditions almost every day. After living in L.A. about four months, she landed the role of Erica McCray on the NBC series A Brand New Life (1989).In 1990, Garth landed her most famous role to date, that of Kelly Taylor on the television series
Beverly Hills, 90210. At various points in the series, Garth's
character was involved in a love triangle between 
Dylan McKay (Luke Perry) and 
Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestley), became a diet pill abuser, was trapped in a fire, became involved in a cult, used cocaine, was raped, shot, had amnesia and had a miscarriage. Garth appeared on the show for the full 10 seasons until its end in 2000, along with 
Ian Ziering, 
Tori Spelling, and 
Brian Austin Green.
In 2002, Garth starred in the sitcom 
What I Like About You as Amanda Bynes' sister Valerie Tyler. Along with Bynes, she starred on the show for all four seasons. In other roles, she also played the lead in a 1993 television production of Danielle Steel's Star and her story, "I Am Home," was featured in 
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. 
In September 2008, Garth returned to the role of Kelly Taylor on the series premiere of the CW Network's spin-off series, 90210 where she is reported making $40-50,000 per episode.[1] In the new series, Garth's character Kelly Taylor is now a guidance counselor at West Beverly High, where her half-sister
Erin Silver also attends.[2] Kelly now has a four and a half year old son with long-time flame 
Dylan McKay[3]. The writers were eager to have her share scenes with 
Shannen Doherty who is also reprising her 90210 role of Brenda Walsh.[4] It was reported that Garth and Doherty's characters would both have a romantic interest in the character Ryan Matthews 
(Ryan Eggold),[5] reminiscent of their old rivalry for former bad boy character Dylan McKay. G
arth and Doherty later confirmed that the reports about the love triangle between their characters were false.[6] Garth
appeared on the U.S. game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on 21 November 2008. She won $100,000 for her charity, the American Heart Association.
In 2007, Garth appeared on Season 5 of 
Dancing with the Stars and was paired with 
Derek Hough. Garth had consistently high scores throughout the entire competition and was one of the few contestants to maintain 8s and above after week 2. She was eliminated on the ninth week of competition finishing at a respectable fourth out of 12, after scoring her first perfect score of the competition with her Cha-Cha-Cha [7] while 
Marie Osmond (who came in last place for three weeks up to that point) remained in the competition. The audience gave her a standing ovation (something very uncommon in the show). 
Judge Len Goodman stated that it "was not her time to go." In her exiting montage video, Derek Hough stated how proud he was of her for going on an emotional journey and improving from three 7's to three 10's.more