- This article is about the real-life Tori Spelling. For the fictional version of the actress who is the franchise lead of Stab, see Tori Spelling (fiction).
Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling is an American actress who makes a cameo appearance in the film Scream 2 (1997). She portrays a fictionalized version of herself being interviewed for her role as Sidney Prescott in the movie-within-a-movie Stab (1997) based on the events of the original Scream (1996).
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- On an Instagram post, Tori Spelling revealed that she actually auditioned to play Sidney Prescott in Scream (1996) before her cameo in Scream 2. [1]
- In Scream (1996), Sidney remarks that with her luck, Tori Spelling would play her character in a movie. Then, she portrays her in the movie based on her life, Stab. Scream 3 mentions Tori returned for the sequel, Stab 2.
- Despite only being a cameo as the Stab version of Sidney in Scream 2, Tori Spelling was nominated a Razzie Award for Worst New Star for her role in Scream 2, though she did not win the award.
- Neve Campbell felt bad about her disparaging remark about Spelling from the first movie when she described how disappointed she would be if someone like Spelling got to play her. Campbell later would send Spelling some flowers and an apology card to make up for it.
- Appeared in The House of Yes. Oddly enough, so did Parker Posey, who later appeared in Scream 3.
- Her real name is Victoria.
- Has four children.
- Best known for her role as Donna in Beverly Hills 90210 which started in 1990. This was most likely the role Sidney was thinking of when she put Spelling down in the first film. It was Spelling's first starring role.
- Wrote an autobiography called sTORI Telling.
- Along with Jenny McCarthy and Anthony Anderson, she appeared in the Scary Movie franchise (2000-2013).
- Although none of them appear in the first movie which parodies Scream and the slasher genre, Spelling was in the 2nd movie while McCarthy was in the 3rd movie and Anderson was in the 4th movie.
