After a childhood of beauty pageants, Thiessen was crowned Miss Junior America in 1987 and a year later won Teen magazine's " Great Model Search " in 1988, by gracing the cover of that issue.

Thiessen and Garth would later work together on Beverly Hills, 90210.

Grant Thiessen in Science-Fiction Collector # 6 offered a detailed listing of all Ballantine science fiction, fantasy and horror titles from 1953 to 1976, including later printings.

To broaden her visibility on television, Thiessen began making television appearances with guest starring roles on several television shows and television movies, as well as in film.

During her years while on Saved by the Bell, Thiessen was seen in guest roles on Charles in Charge ( 1990 ), Married ... with Children ( 1990 ), The Hogan Family ( 1990 ), Step by Step ( 1992 ), and The Powers That Be ( 1992 ).

After her tenure on Saved by the Bell ended in 1994, producer Aaron Spelling then cast Thiessen in the hit teen-drama Beverly Hills, 90210 playing the bad girl vixen Valerie Malone ( 1994 – 98 ).

Thiessen then began to take on dramatic roles in several made-for-television movies, including The Stranger Beside Me ( 1995 ), She Fought Alone ( 1995 ), Sweet Dreams ( 1996 ), and Buried Secrets ( 1996 ).

Thiessen appeared as a celebrity client for Lonni Paul, one of the final three contestants on season four of the HGTV interior designing reality series Design Star, on the September 6, 2009 episode.

Thiessen served as maid of honor at 90210 co-star and best friend Jennie Garth's wedding to actor Peter Facinelli, with whom she co-starred on Fastlane.

At the site of what was originally the Johann D. C. Thiessen mansion and ranch, now Locomotive Park, so named because of the retired locomotive Steam Engine 92 and Camas Prairie RR Caboose on display in the middle, large trees and pathways are decorated with lights from Thanksgiving to New Year's.

Dionne, Ezra Klein, Greg Sargent, and Eugene Robinson ), and some on the right ( including George Will, Marc Thiessen, Robert Kagan, Robert Samuelson, Michael Gerson, and Charles Krauthammer ).

On May 11, 2010, voters of the Township elected Richard Dow, III and Dywnne Belton to Township Council, replacing incumbents Jules Thiessen and Brooke Tidswell, III, who served on the Council for 16 and 12 years, respectively.

On December 23, 1900, from a site on Cobb Island in the middle of the Potomac River near Washington, D. C., Fessenden said " one-two-three-four, is it snowing where you are Mr. Thiessen?

In the Thiessen polygon method, the watershed is divided into polygons with the rain gauge in the middle of each polygon assumed to be representative for the rainfall on the area of land included in its polygon.

On election night, controversy arose when a CBC producer's gratuitously sexist comment about Stockwell Day's daughter-in-law, Juliana Thiessen Day, was accidentally broadcast on the Canadian networks ' pooled election feed from Day's riding.

Executive Producer Aaron Spelling even approached actresses Tiffani Thiessen, who replaced Doherty on his previous series Beverly Hills, 90210, and Jennifer Love Hewitt to take on the role as Doherty's replacement.

Executive Producer Aaron Spelling even approached actresses Tiffani Thiessen, who replaced Doherty on his previous series Beverly Hills, 90210, and Jennifer Love Hewitt to take on the role as Doherty's replacement.

In the mid-1990s she played Abby Malone, mother of Valerie ( Tiffani-Amber Thiessen ) on Fox's Beverly Hills, 90210.

" To promote the new album, Avary performed the album's lead single " Walls " on KDFW's Good Day Dallas and KTBC's Good Day Austin, and held a hometown album release party at the Granada Theatre in Dallas, TX, where Matt Thiessen of Relient K and a contest-winning unsigned band opened.

Matt Thiessen said they saw a rectangle around the K on the back of the car, and they said, " That would make a cool logo ".

* At the end of " Hello McFly ", Toby McKeehan ( tobyMac ) calls Matt Thiessen, telling him that a song about Marilyn Manson will never be on a CD put out by Gotee Records ( the call is followed by " My Girlfriend ", a song about Marilyn Manson ).

Kelly ( played by Tiffani-Amber Thiessen — now known as Tiffani Thiessen ) is a cheerleader and has been described by creator Peter Engel as the quintessential " All-American Girl.

In January 2007, Thiessen joined the cast of ABC's drama What About Brian, playing the boss of Brian, and a potential love interest for Adam.

On December 2, 2008, Thiessen was cast in White Collar, a USA Network television series.

Thiessen is a fan of the television series The Office, and will often pay tribute to the show during his concerts by singing a self-described " love song " about the series, titled " The Ballad of Dunder Mifflin ".

In 2002, Bill Bellamy was given a co-starring role in the Fox Network television show Fastlane alongside Peter Facinelli and Tiffani Thiessen.

The group recorded lead singer Matt Thiessen making drum noises and played them with electronic drums to make the song.

Tiffani Amber Thiessen ( born January 23, 1974 ) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Kelly Kapowski in Saved by the Bell and as Valerie Malone in Beverly Hills, 90210.

After many years of going by her full name, she dropped her middle name, and is now credited as simply Tiffani Thiessen.

Thiessen was born in Long Beach, California, the daughter of Robyn Ernest, a homemaker, and Frank Thiessen, a park designer and landscape architect.

In 1992, Thiessen graduated as valedictorian at Valley Professional High School in Studio City, Los Angeles, California.

Ernest was the first person to suggest that Thiessen enter show business.

Thiessen and Paul now have a nursery furniture line together called Petit Nest, http :// www. petitnest. com /

During the early and mid-1990s, Thiessen dated Brian Austin Green.

On June 15, 2010, Thiessen gave birth to a daughter named Harper Renn Smith, who weighed 8 lbs.

In 2007, he produced the play, Shakespeare's Will by Canadian Playwright Vern Thiessen.

Other guest stars included John Ritter, Dennis Miller, Janeane Garofalo, Bebe Neuwirth, Lauren Graham, Ben Stiller, Chris Kattan, French Stewart, Dilbert creator Scott Adams, Jon Stewart, Bryan Callen, Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Patton Oswalt and, in a non-speaking cameo, Ron Jeremy.

The show stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Dustin Diamond, Lark Voorhies, and Dennis Haskins, who appeared in Good Morning, Miss Bliss, as well as Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Elizabeth Berkley, and Mario Lopez, who joined the cast for Saved by the Bell.

Kelly Kapowski ( Tiffani Thiessen ) and Jessie Spano ( Elizabeth Berkley ) were introduced as longtime friends of the original three characters and new transfer student A. C. Slater ( Mario Lopez ) rounded out the group.

He guest-starred much later in his career in episodes of The Muppet Show, The Cosby Show and in the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone.

The episodes of those series in which McLaglen guest-starred were both directed by his son, Andrew V. McLaglen, who later was a film director.

Lewis later guest-starred on the show as Frink's father in the 2003 episode " Treehouse of Horror XIV ".

Spiner guest-starred in Friends as a man who interviews Rachel for Gucci, and later cameoed as himself in the Friends spinoff, Joey.

Bonaduce guest-starred with J. D. Roth ( who he would later reunite with for Breaking Bonaduce ) on an episode of Sex Wars.

Amsterdam and Rose Marie later appeared as panelists on The Hollywood Squares and guest-starred together in a February 1996 episode of the NBC sitcom Caroline in the City ( his final television appearance ).

David Spade later guest-starred as Cate's wayward nephew, C. J.

Messing was inclined to take some time off, but the script intrigued her, and she auditioned for the role of Grace Adler, beating out Nicollette Sheridan, who later guest-starred on the show as a romantic rival of Grace's.

She later guest-starred on episodes of That 70s Show in 2001 and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch before joining the fourth season of VH1's Celebrity Fit Club in 2006.

During its six season run, many familiar actors guest-starred on the show, along with other lesser-known performers who later achieved stardom, among them: John Charles Daly, Elaine Joyce, Gary Dubin, Herbert Anderson, June Foray, Robert Cummings, Sam Edwards, Jerry Van Dyke, J. Pat O ' Malley, Johnny Whitaker, Jesse White, Al Lewis, Gordon Jump, Bernie Kopell, Len Lesser, Bob Hastings, Don Keefer, Don Porter, Alan Hale Jr., Melody Patterson, Rusty Hamer, Regis Toomey, Heather North, Allan Melvin, Parley Baer, Jack Bannon, Rick Lenz, Karen Valentine among many others.

Warden guest-starred on many television series over the years, including two episodes of Barton MacLane's The Outlaws on NBC in 1960, The Fugitive, and later on Marilyn Maxwell's Bus Stop on ABC.

In two episodes of Gunsmoke, Carroll O ' Connor was a guest-star ; years later Curtis guest-starred as a retired police detective on O ' Connor's NBC program In the Heat of the Night.

Shatner guest-starred in various roles in the later series, and the original drama later was incorporated into an episode of his series, Boston Legal.

Ashmore starred as Cadet Major Brad Rigby in Cadet Kelly, a Disney Channel original film which aired in 2002 and he also guest-starred as Eric Summers in two episodes of Smallville, a series on which his brother later got the role of Jimmy Olsen.

In 1971-2 she starred in the short-lived sitcom The Good Life with Larry Hagman who later guest-starred on Knotts Landing as the iconic J. R. Ewing from their companion series Dallas.

Several months later, he guest-starred on That ' 70s Show in the January 2000 episode " Eric's Stash ".

He would later work with the Expanded Universe, reprising his role as Fode in the video game Star Wars Episode I: Racer and the video game adaptation of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and he guest-starred on two episodes of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (" The Mandalore Plot " and " Voyage of Temptation ") as Tal Merrick.

He guest-starred in an episode of The Goodies and later appeared in the lead role in Mr Majeika, developed from the books by Humphrey Carpenter, a children's show about a magic teacher, expelled from Walpurgis ( the wizard land ) for failing his professional examinations.

In 1992, Marshall had a three-episode guest role on The Wonder Years and later guest-starred on shows such as Seinfeld, Nash Bridges, Grapevine and Diagnosis: Murder.

Hooks guest-starred on two Matt Groening-produced cartoons for the FOX Network: The Simpsons, as Apu's new wife, Manjula ( though Hooks was later replaced by Tress MacNeille ); and Futurama, in the episode " Bendless Love ," as the voice of a female robot named Angleyne.

He has subsequently appeared alongside Weir in many productions ; as a guest in her spoof television series, Posh Nosh ; in the Doctor Who audio drama Exile — during which Weir played an alternate version of the Doctor — and as panellists on the West Wing Ultimate Quiz on More4 ( Weir later guest-starred on Doctor Who itself after Tennant left the series ).

He made his feature film debut in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock in a small role and later guest-starred on Babylon 5, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager.

He himself started on a show similar to those he later guest-starred on.