Alyssa Milano

Alyssa Milano Profile:
Name: Alyssa Milano
Alternative Names: Alyssa Bugliari, Lyssa, Lyssie, Conan
Date of Birth: 19 December 1972
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
Nationality: American
Height: 5' 1?" (156 cm)
Eye Color: Brown - Dark
Hair Color: Brown - Dark
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Occupation: Actress, singer, fashion designer
Music Genre: Pop/Rock
Music Style: Celebrity, Dance-Pop, Teen Pop
Music Mood: Campy, Carefree, Fun, Gleeful, Happy, Playful, Stylish
Musical Instrument: Vocals

Alyssa Milano sexy in blue dress

Biography for Alyssa Milano
Alyssa Jayne Milano (born dec. 19, 1972 (39 years ago)) is an American actress and former singer. Her acting career began after she appeared in the Broadway show Annie. She played regular roles on TV as Samantha Micelli in the sitcom Who's the Boss? and as Phoebe Halliwell on the supernatural series Charmed. She also has a female apparel clothing line, Touch.

Career
Early life and career
Milano was born in New York City, the daughter of Italian American parents Lin, a former fashion designer and talent manager, and Thomas M. Milano, a movie music editor and a well-known boating enthusiast. She has a younger brother, Cory (born in 1982 (29 years ago)), who is also an actor, but has more recently started a band, called Chloroform Days, in which he is the lead singer. Milano was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Staten Island and was raised Roman Catholic. She began her career at the age of 8 when she won a part in an open audition for a national tour of Annie. She appeared in TV commercials and off-Broadway productions. At the age of eleven, she earned her first major role in the TV show Who's the Boss?, alongside fellow Brooklyn native Tony Danza, Judith Light, Danny Pintauro, and Katherine Helmond. She starred as

Actress Alyssa Milano

Samantha Micelli, the daughter of Danza's character, Tony Micelli. When Milano won the role, her family relocated from Staten Island to Hollywood.

She produced a teen workout video in 1988 (23 years ago) called Teen Steam. In 1985 (26 years ago), Milano was in the movie Commando as Jenny Matrix who was John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger)'s daughter. A few years later this movie was shown in Japan prompting a producer to offer Alyssa a five album record deal.

Later career
At the beginning of her career, Milano was known mainly for her role on Who's the Boss? (1984-1992). She tried to shed her "nice girl" image (wallpaper) by appearing in several movies targeted at adults, such as Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1992, 19 years ago), Embrace of the Vampire (1994, 17 years ago), Confessions of a Sorority Girl (1994, 17 years ago), Deadly Sins (1995, 16 years ago), and Poison Ivy II: Lily (1995, 16 years ago), where she starred opposite Johnathon Schaech and Xander Berkeley.

She gained more mainstream success in TV as Jennifer Mancini on Melrose Place (1997-1998), Meg Winston in Spin City, and most notably as Phoebe Halliwell on the eight year run of the popular series Charmed (1998-2006). Both Milano and close friend Holly Marie Combs became producers for Charmed during the show's fifth season.

She played the role of Eva Savelot in MCI's 1-800-COLLECT commercials. In 2007 (4 years ago), Milano filmed a pilot for ABC entitled Reinventing the Wheelers. The series was not picked up for the 2007-2008 season, but instead, Milano appeared in ten episodes of the show My Name Is Earl. This reunited her with Jaime Pressly (16 walls) who guest starred in the two part Season 5 premiere of Charmed, "A Witch's Tail". She is set to reappear in the fourth season of the show, reprising her role as Billie Cunningham.

Model Alyssa Milano

On stage, she starred in Tender Offer, a one-act play written by Wendy Wasserstein, All Night Long by American playwright John O'Keefe, and the first American musical adaptation of Jane Eyre. She returned to the theater in 1991 (20 years ago), when she starred in and produced a Los Angeles production of Butterflies Are Free. Milano also appeared in the Josie music video by Blink-182, and in 2007 (4 years ago), Milano began appearing on TV again in commercials for Veet and SheerCover.

Milano was part of TBS' special coverage installment Hot Corner for the 2007 (4 years ago) Major League Baseball playoffs. She reported at Fenway Park during the ALDS between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. She also reported at Chase Field during the NLCS between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies.

Milano starred in the 2008 (3 years ago) movie Pathology alongside Milo Ventimiglia (4 walls), and was then cast in a TV sitcom, Single with Parents, which was pulled prior to production.

On Mar. 20, 2009 (2 years ago), it was announced that Milano would provide a voice for the upcoming "Ghostbusters: The Video Game", which was the role played by Sigourney Weaver in the films.

On Mar. 24, 2009 (2 years ago), her book on her baseball fandom, Safe At Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic, was released. Milano has signed on to star in and produce My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, a romantic comedy in which she plays a woman with a relationship dilemma.

Personal life
Milano has dyslexia. In an interview in 2004 (7 years ago), Milano explained how she deals with the disorder:

Alyssa Milano

"I've stumbled over words while reading from teleprompters. Sir John Gielgud, whom I worked with on The Canterville Ghost years ago, gave me great advice. When I asked how he memorized his monologues, he said, 'I write them down.' I use that method to this day. It not only familiarizes me with the words, it makes them my own."

Alyssa Milano at MLB.com All-Star Party, Roseland Ballroom in NYC 7-13-2008Milano is a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers and writes a baseball blog on the Major League Baseball's website. In 2007 (4 years ago), Milano launched her signature "Touch" line of team apparel for female baseball fans, selling it through her blog and Major League Baseball's website. It also became available in 2009 (2 years ago) through a boutique store located in Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets. She has an interest in the Los Angeles Kings, a National Hockey League team and is involved with a related clothing line. In 2008 (3 years ago), she expanded that to NFL football, as a New York Giants fan. Since Milano is in the same hometown as NFL Network's Rich Eisen (Staten Island), she revealed some of her family's connections with the New York Giants while she picked the winners of NFL games for week 7 of 2008 (3 years ago).
Milano has eight tattoos on her body, including one on each wrist and ankle, shoulder, neck, hip, and lower back. Milano is a vegetarian and appears in numerous PETA advertising campaigns for vegetarianism. Outside of acting, her hobbies include photography, humanitarian work, and spending time with her three dogs and eight horses. Milano has commented on her love for animals, and in a 2009 (2 years ago) interview discussed one of her dogs, a German shepherd called Pinto, who had died at the age of 14; he had worked with the LAPD dogs and Milano had owned him for 10 years.

In 2005 (6 years ago), she was ranked #5 in the "50 Cutest Child Stars — All Grown Up".

Milano was briefly married to singer-songwriter Cinjun Tate in 1999; they were divorced later that same year.

Singer Alyssa Milano

She briefly dated Justin Timberlake (11 walls) in 2002 (9 years ago). She has dated a number of professional athletes, including Brad Penny, Carl Pavano, Barry Zito and Russell Martin. She is currently engaged to CAA agent David Bugliari; the couple became engaged on dec. 18, 2008 (3 years ago), after more than a year of dating. No wedding date is yet set.

Philanthropy
Milano was appointed Founding Ambassador for the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases to which she donated $250,000. The Global Network is an alliance formed to advocate and mobilize resources in the fight to control neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Milano will work to raise awareness of NTDs by educating the mainstream media and general public of the plight faced by the one billion people who are afflicted by NTDs, and the importance in controlling and preventing this global health crisis.

Milano is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the United States. She traveled to India, as well as Angola, to work with UNICEF field officers there. In the fall of 2004 (7 years ago), she participated in UNICEF's "Trick or Treat" campaign as an official spokesperson. She raised approximately $50,000 for South African women and children with AIDS by selling her own and a school's photo (wallpaper) work. In support of PETA, she appeared in an advertisement for them, advocating vegetarianism, in a dress made entirely of vegetables.

Filmography
Old Enough
Commando
The Canterville Ghost
Crash Course
Dance 'til Dawn
Speed Zone!
Little Sister
Where the Day Takes You
The Webbers
Conflict of Interest
Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story
Candles in the Dark
Confessions of a Sorority Girl
Double Dragon
Deadly Sins
Embrace of the Vampire
The Surrogate
Jimmy Zip
Poison Ivy II: Lily
Fear
Glory Daze
To Brave Alaska
Public Enemies (7 walls)
Below Utopia
Hugo Pool
Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure
Lady and the Tramp (2 walls) II: Scamp's Adventure
Diamond Hunters
Buying the Cow
Kiss the Bride
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone
The Blue Hour
Wisegal
Pathology
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend

TV-shows (series)
Who's the Boss?
Melrose Place
Charmed

Guest appearances
The Outer Limits
Spin City
Fantasy Island
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Family Guy
My Name Is Earl

Discography
Albums:
Look in My Heart - Released: Mar. 25, 1989
Alyssa - Released: Oct. 25, 1989
Locked Inside a Dream - Released: May 21, 1991
Do You See Me? - Released: sep. 18, 1992
Singles:
"What a Feeling"
"Look In My Heart"
"Straight to the Top"
"I Had a Dream"
"Happiness"
"The Best in the World"
"I Love When We're Together"
"New Sensation"
"Voices That Care"
"Do You See Me?"
"No Secret"
Source: en.wikipedia.org