Alyssa Milano
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Biography
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.
She won Kids' Choice Awards in 1988, '89, and '90 for her role on Who's the Boss? She was nominated for an "Annie" Award for her work on Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure.
Later career
At the beginning of her career, Alyssa Milano was known mainly for her role on Who's the Boss? (1984-1992). She tried to shed her "nice girl" image by appearing in several films targeted at adults, 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), where she starred opposite Johnathon Schaech and Xander Berkley. 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 Charmed (1998-2006). Both Milano and Holly Marie Combs became producers for Charmed during the show's fifth season.
On stage, she starred in Tender Offer, a one-act play written by Wendy Wasserstein, All Night Long, and the first American musical adaptation of Jane Eyre. She returned to her theater roots in 1991, 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,
Starting in November 2007 Milano will appear in a minimum of eight episodes on the show My Name is Earl as a "possible love interest for Jason Lee". This will reunite her with Jaime Pressly who guest starred in the Season 5 premiere of Charmed, A Witch's Tail.
Personal life
Outside of acting, her hobbies include photography, humanitarian work and spending time with her three dogs and eight horses.
Milano suffers from dyslexia. In an interview in 2004, Milano explained how she deals with the disorder:
"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."
Milano is an avid fan of tattoos, and has eight of them located in various areas of her body. Including, both wrists, ankles, shoulder, neck, hip and lower back. Not only that, but Milano is also an avid fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2007 she created her own signature "Touch" line of team apparel for female baseball fans, currently available on Major League Baseball's website, along with her own baseball blog. Milano is also a strong Vegetarian and appears in numerous PETA advertising campaigns for Vegetarianism.
Milano was engaged to television actor Scott Wolf famous from Party Of Five in 1992, but he called it off before marriage.
