Donna Martin - David Silver

David Silver

Brian Austin Green portrays David Silver, one of two main characters identified on the original series as Jewish (the other being Andrea Zuckerman). David always wanted to be part of the popular crowd. During Season 1, David and his best friend, Scott Scanlon, spent hours trying to be cool enough, and for David it worked by Season 2, but Scott was left behind. He seemed to be on top of his life by taking a double load of classes to graduate with the gang, being the boyfriend to Donna, being the school DJ, and trying to have a social life, while he and the socially handicapped Scott grew apart. When Scott accidentally shot himself it was a huge blow for David, and a source of immense guilt at the state the friendship ended in. After his father Mel and Kelly's mom Jackie married and welcomed their daughter Erin, David was fully part of the gang. After a rocky start, Kelly and David eventually grew to be almost as close as blood relatives, each one helping the other through their respective drug problems. David is especially protective of Kelly during her struggle with addiction, threatening to beat her then-boyfriend Colin if he hears about him giving her drugs again. He and Donna's relationship went through several breakups and reconciliations, and he had an active romantic life during his college years that included everyone from Claire Arnold to Valerie Malone and many other guest characters.He has cheated on Donna more than once and she lost her virginity to him in the season 7 finale where the gang graduates from university. He kicked his drug habit, managed to avoid becoming an alcoholic, but the club did poorly under his management, he did discover he had a mild but dangerous form of depression that his mother suffered from, which he successfully dealt with via therapy and reducing his drinking. In the later seasons, following a brief music career where he had a hit song but quit in disgust when he learned that only happened because of record company payoffs, he hosted a radio show broadcast from the Peach Pit. He dated Sofie, then Gina, then Camille, and finally reunited with Donna, whom he married in the series finale. In the new series 90210 episode "Okaeri, Donna!" Donna reveals that she and David separated shortly after the birth of her daughter while they were living in Japan.