Welcome, Tori

Candy and Aaron Spelling welcome daughter Victoria Davey Spelling. The child grows up in the largest single-family home in the state of California, the result of the more than $250 million fortune her father made from producing TV hits Charlie’s Angels, Dynasty andFantasy Island. The house, a 56,000-square-foot mansion dubbed the Manor, features 100-plus rooms, including a gift-wrapping room, doll museum, bowling alley and elevator.

Daddy’s Little Girl

At six years old, Spelling (here with her brother, Randy, who’s five years younger) wants to be an actress and screenwriter. Her father gives her a part on his TV show, Vega$. To sharpen his daughter’s skills, Aaron hires an acting coach who gives lessons at the house twice a week. Spelling appears on her father’s other hit shows T.J. Hooker starring Heather Locklear andThe Love Boat with Teri Hatcher.

Changing Face

A 16-year-old Spelling goes under the knife for a nose job, according to EW. While it takes the actress years to admit to having plastic surgery, she strongly denies having breast implants. “I lost my baby fat, and people say I got work done instead. But I haven’t. And these [points to chest] are real. It’s Miracle Bra. Not the Wonderbra. Miracle Bra is the real secret.”

Unsuccessful Cover

Spelling uses the alias “Tori Mitchell” when she auditions for the role of Kelly Taylor in her father’s new teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210, but she gets recognized. Jennie Garth wins the role, but Spelling is cast as the earnest virgin Donna Martin. Soon after, Spelling graduates from Westlake School for Girls, a private school in Beverly Hills.

Tori’s Torrid First Love

Spelling ends a two-year relationship with live-in boyfriend Nick Savalas, son of Kojak star, Telly. “It was a nightmare,” Spelling tells Entertainment Weekly in 1996. “He was never physically abusive, but he was verbally abusive, telling me 10 times a day how ugly I was.” However, she rebounds by dating a string of actors who appear in her father’s TV shows. “My past record seems to be chiseled pretty-boy actors. I gotta say it: I always pick the ones that are 10 times better looking than me,” she tells Harper’s Bazaar in 1999. 

TV Movie Queen

Spelling stars in six top-rated TV movies in less than two years. “I’ve been stalked, raped, murdered, everything,” Spelling tells Playboy in 1998. Father Aaron tells PEOPLE she has a strong work ethic: “She’s more determined than people realize.” According to Village Voicecolumnist Michael Musto, that determination is part of Spelling’s appeal: “Tori epitomizes the plain Jane, who through sheer will and money transformed herself, if not into a swan, then at least into a duck.”

October 10

Tori’s First Feature

Spelling stars in her first feature film, The House of Yeswith Parker Posey and Freddie Prinze Jr. Although the indie comedy is a Spelling Films presentation, the film’s director Mark Waters insists to Timethat Aaron came aboard long after Tori was cast. It grosses a little more than $600,000 at the box office. “Tori’s got acting chops – she’s just been doing awful material,” Waters says.

July 04

Scary Movie 2

Spelling gets seduced by a ghost in the horror spoofScary Movie 2, which opens at No. 2 and grosses $138 million. “I thought that I’d never get a big-budget film and nobody would ever know I can do comedy,” she tells Cosmopolitan. She also appears in the indie comedy Sol Goode, starring Balthazar Getty andCarmen Electra.

January 24

Off-Stage Love

Spelling makes her stage debut in Maybe Baby, It’s You at the Coronet Theater in L.A. She portrays a variety of goofy characters searching for the perfect mate. The play runs for two months, and the Los Angeles Times says, “Yes, Tori Spelling belongs on a stage. She brings solid comic instinct, a nice flair for characterization and a lot of exuberance to her limited engagement.” On top of the rave reviews, she lands a new boyfriend: costar Charlie Shanian, who cowrote the play.

May 11

Tori Misses 90210 Reunion

Spelling does not appear in the FOX reunion special Beverly Hills, 90210: 10-Year HighSchool Reunion. There’s no bad blood, says her rep – she’s simply moved on to other projects: playing a dog walker in the WB series The Help, Scrooge in the Hallmark Channel’s updated version of A Christmas Carol, and a costarring role in the romantic comedy 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.

July 03

Daddy Gives Away the Bride

Tori Spelling, 31, and Shanian, 34, tie the knot at her father’s 56,000-sq.-ft. L.A. mansion. Wearing a Badgley Mischka gown, Spelling walks down the aisle with her father in front of 350 guests. “My dad was so cute – he was nervous,” the bride tells PEOPLE. “He kissed me and, of course, he stepped on my train.” At the $1 million ceremony, guests drink Champagne from a fountain in a rose-covered gazebo. The couple’s dogs, Mimi La Rue and Ferris, wear a dress and tuxedo, respectively, to serve as flower girl and ring bearer.

August

Spelling’s Splitting Situation

While filming the TV movie Mind Over Murder in Ottawa, Canada, Spelling finds that her mind is more on costar Dean McDermott. The actor, who has two children with wife of 12 years, Mary Jo Eustace, files for divorce on Sept. 9. His ex tells PEOPLE the breakup is “humiliating beyond anything I’ve ever known.” A week later, Spelling announces her splitwith Shanian. “I went into the marriage with the best intentions, hopes and dreams. I feel that I’ve really disappointed people…I’m disappointed in myself,” Spelling tells PEOPLE. A month later, Shanian files for divorce, seeking spousal support from Spelling.

April 02

Heir Head on So NoTORIous

Spelling produces and stars in the VH1 sitcom, So NoTORIous, as a fictional version of herself. But a source close to the family tells PEOPLE that Spelling’s mother, Candy, feels ridiculed by the unlikable, shopaholic mother-character played by Loni Anderson. “My family knows the mother is not based on my mother,” Spelling tells PEOPLE. “I like the mother-daughter dynamic on the show, because I think it’s a difficult relationship, and that’s something my mother and I have always shared. But that should never be taken as ‘we don’t love each other’.” 

May 07

A Fiji Wedding

Spelling and McDermott marry on a private tropical island in Fiji. There are no guests at the ceremony, only the barefoot bride and groom. Her new husband says, “I’ve never had as much of a desire to get married and make a woman my wife as I’ve had with her.” McDermott’s ex-wife Eustace considers his remark as “the final nail” and blasts the newlyweds, telling reporters, “It all could have been done so different.”

Not an Heiress

A statement from the Spelling family criticizes Tori’s remarks after her father’s death, calling them “hurtful and very disturbing.” A month later, Spelling learns that she and her brother Randy will each receive about $1 million of their father’s $300 million estate. Spelling tellsUSA Today, “My dad was really the glue of our family. The mother-and-daughter dynamic has always been a wonderment to me, and it can be a very difficult dynamic. Especially with my doting dad, who just lived through his little girl.”

March

Reconciling with Candy

Candy tells PEOPLE that she and her estranged daughter are trying to patch up their relationship. Spelling’s brother Randy, 28, who’s been stuck in the middle, says, “No matter what, we are family, and they’re resolving things and getting back together. They are communicating, and it makes both of them happy. It’s definitely a mutual thing.” 

March 20

Tori & Dean: Inn Love

The couple’s Oxygen reality series premieres, chronicling their efforts to run a B&B in Fallbrook, Calif. They return for a second season in June 2008, but this time, the couple is back in Hollywood sans B&B.

February

Back to the Zipcode

After initially backing out of guest-starring on 90210, Spelling reprises her role as Donna Martin on The CW spin-off with former costar and pal Jennie Garth. “I hope it turns out to be a really great show, just for my dad’s legacy,” she said in August. “I was originally a part of [90210] and it was something pretty phenomenal, so I hope it turns out great.”