Name: Alyssa Jayne Milano
Nicknames: (Lyssa, Lyss and Conan)
Born: December 19th, 1972 in Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sign: Sagittarius
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Dark Brown
Height: 5'2" (160cm)
Father: Tom Milano (music editor)
Mother: Lin Milano (fashion designer)
Brother: Cory Milano (actor)
Instruments: Piano and Flute
Alyssa was born on December 19th, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York. Alyssa has a younger brother Cory who has acted in some of Alyssa's movies (e.g. Double Dragon, 1993). Alyssa made her professional acting debut at age eight in the role of July in the Tony-winning Broadway musical, "Annie". She spent over a year playing the role in the tour before returning to New York to appear off-Broadway in the first American musical adaptation, "Jane Eyre" at the theater Opera Music Institute, Wendy Wasserstein??ne-act Play, "Tender Offer" at the New York Ensemble Theater, "All Night Long" at the Second Stage and "Warning Signals" at the Manhattan Theater Club. Child actress and model Alyssa Milano rose to fan-magazine fame in the role of Samantha Micelli on the TV series Who's the Boss ? (1984-1993). During the run of this series, Milano made her TV-movie bow opposite no less than Sir John Gielgud in 1986's The Canterville Ghost. She has acted along such actors as John Candy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnathan Silverman of TV's "The Single Guy", Will Smith, Sean Astin, and Christian Slater. Like many former child stars, Milano has done her best to break her earlier image by appearing in adult roles calling for heavy breathing and come-hither glances: perhaps her most spectacular appearance along these lines was in the role of the estimable Amy Fisher in the the 1992 TV movie Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story. According to those who keep tabs on such things, Milano has lined up roles in "three or four very adult movies". Her most recent movies were Fear with Reece Witherspoon and Hugo Pool with Malcolm McDowell.
In 1997 Alyssa joined the cast of Fox TV's "Melrose Place" .
Alyssa's debut on Melrose Place was on Monday April 14th 1997 on Fox at 8pm EST.
Alyssa has six tatoos. She has a sacred heart on her bum, 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 and the on her Sixth tattoois an "om" on one wrist.
Alyssa has some piercings. Both ears and her bellybutton are pierced.
Alyssa likes to use her Mac G3 Powerbook and her Pentium III Desktop with a Flatscreen Monitor.
Her favorite book is "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, and she loves the poetry of Edna St. Vincent.
Her favourite Music: Dave Matthews Band, Del Amitri and The Beatles
Alyssa played a High-School-Cheerleader in Blink 182??ew Music-Video "Josie". The Single and the Video have been released in May 1998 by Cargo/MCA Records.
Alyssa was an inspiration for Ariel from "The Little Mermaid".
Alyssa has three dogs: "Ripley", "Stella", and "Hugo".
Alyssa's favorite time of the year are the holidays. Alyssa loves Christmas.
Alyssa never misses her horoscope.
She loves sushi and her Mother's Italian cooking.
She was engaged to Double Dragon's Scott Wolf, but their engagement was broken off and they are no longer seeing each other.
Sexy is for Alyssa: intelligence, humor and strong hands
Not sexy is for Alyssa: ignorance and pirate shirts
Who's the Boss" ran for 8 years, in which time Alyssa won three "Youth In Film" awards for "Best Supporting Actress" !
She played a Tokyo music festival at the world famous Budokan in front of 40,000 people
Her favorite TV series is "ER".
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's favorite sport is Hockey
She appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song "Voices That Care."
Alyssa's ex-husband, Cinjun Tate, was the lead singer for the rock group, Remy Zero.
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."
Alyssa's favorite saying is "It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice."
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