In 1992, she starred in her first television movies Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style and A Killer Among Friends, making her film debut in Son in Law in 1993. with Children, Charles in Charge and Step by Step.
Simultaneously, Thiessen guest-starred on series such as Married. The success of the show gave her career a boost and Thiessen received Young Artist Award nominations for Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast in 1990 and Best Young Actress in an Off-Primetime Series in 19. In 1989, she was named Cover Girl's "Model of the Year", and landed her first role of Kelly Kapowski on NBC's television sitcom Saved by the Bell, starring until its end in 1993. The following year, she appeared on the cover of Teen magazine, having won the magazine's "Great Model Search". Thiessen participated in beauty pageants during her childhood and was crowned Miss Junior America in 1987. My mom is very olive-skinned I get my blue eyes from my dad." Career German on one side, Greek, Turkish and Welsh on the other. I have so much of everything in me, and half of it I don't even know. Thiessen told InStyle magazine: "I'm a mutt. She has credited her brother, Todd, as one of her most important sources of inspiration, and her mother and grandmother as role models. Thiessen was born in Long Beach, California, the daughter of Robyn (née Ernest), a homemaker, and Frank Thiessen, a park designer and landscape architect.