Alyssa Milano biography
Biography
Alyssa Milano is an American actress and former singer who is still remembered for her role as Samantha Micelli in the sitcom Who's the Boss?, Phoebe Halliwell on the supernatural series Charmed. She has recently launched her new female apparel clothing line Touch and appeared in Broadway show Annie. Her hobbies include photography, humanitarian work and spending time with her three dogs and eight horses. Milano is dyslexic.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Staten Island New York, her family later shifted base to Hollywood when Milano got the part of Samantha Micelli, the daughter of Danza's character, Tony Micell in the TV show Who's the Boss? when she was just 11. Earlier she had started her career at the age of eight when she won a part in an open audition for a national tour of Annie followed by television commercials and off-Broadway productions. In 1985, she starred in Commando as Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter. Milano also produced a teen workout video in 1988 called Teen Steam.
Career in Movies
After 1992, when the show got over, Milano in lieu of getting a make over of her nice girl image starred in several productions targeting the adult audience such as Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1992), Embrace of the Vampire (1994), Confessions of a Sorority Girl (1994), Deadly Sins (1995), and Poison Ivy II: Lily (1995).
She returned to her pervious love, theater in 1991 with Los Angeles production of Butterflies Are Free, which she also helped producing. Later, she worked in many stage productions like 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.
Besides this, Milano made an appearance in the Josie music video by Blink-182 and made a foray into television again with commercials for products likeVeet and SheerCover.
Milano was part of TBS' special coverage installment Hot Corner for the 2007 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.
Her future projects include a starring role in the new comedic television show (The Untitled Kristin Newman Project) for the 2008-2009 season.
Alyssa has shown strong inclination towards the tattoo art and has in fact eight of them made on her body parts including both wrists, both ankles, shoulder, neck, hip and lower back. She is also a vegetarian and has appeared in numerous PETA advertising campaigns for vegetarianism.
Milano was recently appointed Founding Ambassador for the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases to which she donated $250,000 of her own money and is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the United States
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