Alyssa Milano Biography

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 - 20 November 1999) (divorced)
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) Engaged to 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.
Wore colored contact lenses in some episodes Who's the Boss.
Born under the astrological sign Sagittarius.

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.
Favorite sport is Hockey.
Plays piano and flute.
Her ex-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.
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)
(May 2001) Dating 'Charmed' co-star Brian Krause.
(2001) Voted #4 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women list
Had 5 albumms released in Japan which all went platinum. These were titled Alyssa, Look In My Heart, Best in the world, Locked In a Dream, and Do You See Me?
Lost out to Shannen Doherty for a role in Mallrats (1995).
Has 7 tattoos (November 2001)