Post by Angel on Jul 27, 2005 12:08:52 GMT
1. She was born Alyssa Jayne Milano on December 19, in a working class neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. The daughter or Italian-American parents, she had a modest upbringing and grew up on Staten Island. Her mother Lin is a former fashion designer turned manager and her father Tom is a film music editor. Alyssa has a younger brother Cory, who is 10 years younger than her
2. When her babysitter dragged her along to an open audition for the first national tour of the musical Annie in 1980, it was Alyssa who beat 1,500 other wannabe stage acresses and snagged a role in the Broadway production. Talk about being in the right place at the right time! So, at the tender age of seven, she joined the tour, playing one of the orphans
3. In 1983, 10 year old Alyssa landed her breakthrough TV role on the ABC sitcom Whos the Boss?, playing Tony Danza's feisty daugher, Samantha. Her family uprooted and moved some 3,000 miles to Hollywood to enable her to appear on the show, which ran from 1984 to 1992. Alyssa pretty much grew up in front of the world on the long-running category
4. In 2000, Alyssa caused quite a stir with her promotional work for Candies perfume. Her TV commercials were deemed to risque and networks including Fox and the WB refused to air them. It was a similar story with a couple of print ads, with youth-oriented magazines like Teen People and Seventeen choosing not to run them
5. Aside from Charmed, Alyssa's other notable TV credits include Spin City, Family Guy and Melrose Place. In 1985, she played Arnold Schwarzegger's daughter in the movie Commando, and also appeared alongside Reese Withersthingy and Mark Wahlberg in the 1996 psychological thriller fear. She was even the inspiration behind the mermaid Ariel, for Disney's 1989 animated film, The Little Mermaid. They used one of her photos when they were designing the character
6. Alyssa frequently pops up in men's magazine polls for the world's sexiest women. In 2003, she was voted #4 in FHM magazine's 100 Sexiest Women edition. And more recently, in an altogether different type of poll, Alyssa has been nominated for a 2005 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for their favorite TV Actress category. It seems she's a popular choice all around
7. Alyssa and Lin Milano co-founded safesearching.com, an online safesearching index that is a safe haven for internet users, providing sites that are family friendly
8. She became a national ambassador for UNICEF, and travelled to Angola on behalf of the charity
9. Alyssa released a best-selling excercise video in 1988, called Teen Steam. She's also had a very sucessful singing career, having released five albums that went platinum in Japan
10. Alyssa is a very big hockey fan. She also enjoys playing the piano and the flute and she spends her free time writing, travelling and attendng dance classes. She's also an animal lover. In fact, every time Alyssa thinks she'd like to have a child, she goes out and gets another animal to add to her family, which so far includes dogs, birds and horses.
Source: Wanna Be Charmed
2. When her babysitter dragged her along to an open audition for the first national tour of the musical Annie in 1980, it was Alyssa who beat 1,500 other wannabe stage acresses and snagged a role in the Broadway production. Talk about being in the right place at the right time! So, at the tender age of seven, she joined the tour, playing one of the orphans
3. In 1983, 10 year old Alyssa landed her breakthrough TV role on the ABC sitcom Whos the Boss?, playing Tony Danza's feisty daugher, Samantha. Her family uprooted and moved some 3,000 miles to Hollywood to enable her to appear on the show, which ran from 1984 to 1992. Alyssa pretty much grew up in front of the world on the long-running category
4. In 2000, Alyssa caused quite a stir with her promotional work for Candies perfume. Her TV commercials were deemed to risque and networks including Fox and the WB refused to air them. It was a similar story with a couple of print ads, with youth-oriented magazines like Teen People and Seventeen choosing not to run them
5. Aside from Charmed, Alyssa's other notable TV credits include Spin City, Family Guy and Melrose Place. In 1985, she played Arnold Schwarzegger's daughter in the movie Commando, and also appeared alongside Reese Withersthingy and Mark Wahlberg in the 1996 psychological thriller fear. She was even the inspiration behind the mermaid Ariel, for Disney's 1989 animated film, The Little Mermaid. They used one of her photos when they were designing the character
6. Alyssa frequently pops up in men's magazine polls for the world's sexiest women. In 2003, she was voted #4 in FHM magazine's 100 Sexiest Women edition. And more recently, in an altogether different type of poll, Alyssa has been nominated for a 2005 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for their favorite TV Actress category. It seems she's a popular choice all around
7. Alyssa and Lin Milano co-founded safesearching.com, an online safesearching index that is a safe haven for internet users, providing sites that are family friendly
8. She became a national ambassador for UNICEF, and travelled to Angola on behalf of the charity
9. Alyssa released a best-selling excercise video in 1988, called Teen Steam. She's also had a very sucessful singing career, having released five albums that went platinum in Japan
10. Alyssa is a very big hockey fan. She also enjoys playing the piano and the flute and she spends her free time writing, travelling and attendng dance classes. She's also an animal lover. In fact, every time Alyssa thinks she'd like to have a child, she goes out and gets another animal to add to her family, which so far includes dogs, birds and horses.
Source: Wanna Be Charmed
