Alyssa Milano

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Bio

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Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her roles
as Samantha Micelli in the sitcom Who's the Boss? and Phoebe Halliwell on the supernatural series Charmed.Milano was born in New York, the daughter of Italian-American parents Lin, a former fashion designer and talent manager,and Thomas M. Milano, a film music editor and a well-known boating enthusiast.She has a younger brother,Cory (born in 1982), who is also an actor. Milano grew up in Staten Island, New York and was raised Catholic.She began her career at the age of eight when she won a part in an open audition for a national tour of Annie. She appeared in television 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 Tony Danza, Judith Light, Danny Pintauro and Katherine Helmond. She starred as 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 called Teen Steam.

Personal life

Outside of acting, her hobbies include photography, humanitarian work and spending time with her four dogs; Ripley,Stella, Hugo, and Lucy. Her other pets are birds and 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 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. She also maintains a baseball blog.

Charmed - Pheobe Halliwell

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Charmed is an American television series that ran for eight seasons on The WB. It was produced by Aaron Spelling and is about three sisters who are the world's most powerful good witches, known throughout the supernatural community as "The Charmed Ones" but known to everyone else as the Halliwells. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve over the course of their lives. The Charmed Ones live together in a manor and use their supernatural abilities to battle the warlocks, demons and other evil forces that populate San Francisco, California.The story of Charmed begins with the three Halliwell sisters — Prudence, Piper and Phoebe — coming together six months after the death of their grandmother. Moving back into the family Manor in San Francisco, the youngest sister, Phoebe,discovers an old book — the Book of Shadows — in the attic. Reading an incantation from it, she unwittingly sets
in motion events that fulfill an ancient prophecy. Strange and harrowing occurrences begin which eventually leads the sisters to realize that they are witches.

Filmography

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1984 Old Enough Diane
1985 Commando Jenny Matrix
1986 The Canterville Ghost Jennifer Canterville TV movie
1988 Crash Course Vanessa Crawford TV movie and the movie was also known as "Driving Academy".
Dance 'Til Dawn Shelley Sheridan TV movie
1989 Speed Zone! Lurleen a.k.a. Cannonball Fever
1992 Little Sister Diana
Where the Day Takes You Kimmy
1993 The Webbers Fan TV movie
Conflict of Interest Eve
Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story Amy Fisher TV movie
Candles in the Dark Sylvia Velliste TV movie
1994 Embrace of the Vampire Charlotte
Confessions of a Sorority Girl Rita Summers TV movie
1995 Double Dragon Marian Delario/Power Corps Chief
Deadly Sins Cristina
The Surrogate Amy Winslow TV movie
1996 Jimmy Zip Short Film
Poison Ivy II: Lily Lily Leonetti
Fear Margo Masse
Glory Daze Chelsea
To Brave Alaska Denise Harris TV movie
Public Enemies Amaryllis
1997 Below Utopia Susanne
Hugo Pool Hugo Dugay
1998 Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure Frances Ella 'Fizzy' Fitz TV movie
2001 Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure Angel voice
2002 Buying the Cow Amy
Kiss the Bride Amy Kayne
2003 Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Cyndi
2005 Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone 26 Voice
2007 The Blue Hour Allegra Released on September 21
2007 Pathology Gwen Completed: To be released on November 30
2008 Wisegal Patty Montanari TV movie (Filming)

TV series
Year(s) Title Role Seasons Notes
1984–92 Who's the Boss? Samantha "Sam" Micelli 1–8 Co-star in every episode
1997–98 Melrose Place Jennifer Mancini 5 & 6 Appeared in the beginning of season 5. Quit during season 6 to star in Charmed.
1998–2006 Charmed Phoebe Halliwell 1–8 Co-star of Season 1-3, then Starring of Season 4-8

Pictures

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