Tori Spelling

May 16

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 and Fantasy 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 and The 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 Voice columnist 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 Yes with Parker Posey and Freddie Prinze Jr. Although the indie comedy is a Spelling Films presentation, the film's director Mark Waters insists to Time that 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.