Alyssa Milano is the daughter of Italian-American
parents Lin, a fashion designer, and Tom, a film music editor.
Alyssa was born in a working class neighborhood in Brooklyn and grew
up in a modest house on Staten Island. One day, her babysitter, who
was an aspiring dancer, dragged Alyssa along to a an open audtion
for the first national tour of Annie. But it was Alyssa, not the
sitter, who beat out 1,500 other wanna be stage actresses to snag a
role. So at the tender age of seven, with her mother in tow, Alyssa
joined the tour as July, one of the orphans. After 18 months on the
road, Alyssa, who had begun to garner a reputation as an energetic
and charismatic young actress, left Annie to be featured in
off-Broadway productions and television commercials. Then in 1983,
at age 10, she landed her breakthrough role on the new sitcom
"Who's the Boss?" as Tony Danza's saccharine sweet
daughter, Samantha Micelli, a kid whose native Brooklyn accent
rivaled her TV dad's. In order for Alyssa to accept the gig, the
Milano family had to uproot and move 3,000 miles to Hollywood.
Spouse
| 'Cinjun August Tate' |
(1 January 1999 - present) (separated) |
Had a best-selling excercise video in 1988 called
Teen Steam.
She's the 1-800-COLLECT girl.
(December 1998) Awarded $230,000 in a default
judgement against a web designer that allegedly posted nude pictures
of her.
(1993) Alyssa was engaged to Double Dragon's Scott
Wolf (I) but their engagement was broken off and they are no longer
seeing each other.
Her first role was in the musical 'Annie' on
Broadway, she was 8 years old then.
Alyssa used to wear colored contact lenses in some
episodes Who's the Boss
Her favorite place to go for fun is Disneyland
Alyssa was born under the astrological sign
Sagitarius
Alyssa has five tattoos. She has a sacred heart on
her behind, a fairy kneeling in grass on her hip, rosary beads on
her back, an angel on her left ankle, and a garland of flowers
around her right ankle.
Alyssa's favorite sport is Hockey
She can play the piano and the flute.
She appeared in the music video and sang in the
choir on the song "Voices That Care."
Alyssa's husband, Cinjun Tate, is the lead singer
for the rock group, Remy Zero.
Sixth tattoo: An "om" on one wrist.
2000 - Caused a stir with her TV Commercial for
Candies perfume, which featured a black-lingerie clad Alyssa and a
goateed man. The "Anywhere You Dare" campaign was rejected
by such stations as WB and FOX.
2000 - Caused a stir with 2 of her Candies Print
Ads, which one shows a man perfuming Milano's cleavage, the other
presents her standing before a medicine cabinet stocked with perfume
and condoms. Both ad's were turned down by youth-oriented magazines
Seventeen and Teen People.
Appeared in underwear along with Yasmine Bleeth,
Melissa Joan Hart,
Attended The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, CA.
Caused a commotion with her TV dad, Tony Danza,
when she posed nude in the 1993 pages of 'Bikini' magazine. "I
worried about her, but it wasn't my place to say anything, "
explains Danza. "I played her father, but I wasn't her
father."
A picture of her was used to create Ariel in the
classic Disney movie Little Mermaid, The (1989)
Personal quotes
Alyssa's favorite saying is "It's nice to be
important, but it's important to always be nice."
