Alyssa Milano - Biography

Bold and beautiful Alyssa has flamed not only the cover pages of many magazines but also the hearts of her fans...

Beautiful, charming and sexy Alyssa Milano was born on 19 December of 1972 to an Italian-American couple, mother Lin, a fashion designer and father Tom, a film music editor. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Alyssa was brought up in Staten Island. She attended The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, CA.

The kick-start to Alyssa's career was just like a dream came true for anyone who wants to be on golden screen. Alyssa got an opportunity to show her talent and skills in an open audition in 1980. It was her baby-sitter who took her for an open audition of national tour of Musical Annie. Alyssa beat more than some hundreds of participants and secured her place in the tour of Annie when she was of age around seven.

During her tour, Alyssa had learned much and earned her bit of applauses from audiences, she was cherished for her work and talent. Soon she was signed for few TV Commercials and Off-Broadway productions. Alyssa was moving slowly towards a start of her career as an actress in Television and movie productions. Alyssa came face-to-face with the destiny’s decision to give her a chance at the age of 10. A role in new sitcom "Who’s The Boss?" was her careers’ first role. She played Samantha Micelli in "Who’s The Boss?", which was a big hit. Her family had to make a decision to move to Hollywood because of the problem Alyssa was facing regarding her typical Brooklyn accent. Alyssa then had started getting interesting offers for roles in various television, film and musical productions. She was offered a part of Adele in the musical version of Jayne Eyre. Her part in John O’Keefe’s All Night Long at Manhattan’s Second Stage Theatre was more than spectacular.

Alyssa soon was offered with a role in a feature film, "Old Enough" was her debut movie in 1983. As a reward for her talent in acting, Alyssa was featured alongside some of the famous personalities of 80’s. She acted in an action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, "Commando", and she also appeared in some Teen-TV-Movies like "Crash Course", "Dance Till Dawn" are few to be named. Alyssa was not away from celebrity-hood and soon started winning hearts of audiences.

Just like any other Hollywood celebrity, Alyssa also left behind her image of a young, innocent teen girl and in 1992, she gave a nude pose for "Bikini Magazine" and flamed cover pages of many other magazines. People were poised by her seductive appearance when Alyssa revealed her beautiful and sexy figure in her movies "Embrace of Vampire", "Poison Ivy-II", "Deadly Sins", "Last Year’s Fear" and "The Outer Limits". Alyssa also caused stir when she played a role in an ad-campaign which were more than dare devil for the kind of products and were turned down by TV authority and teen magazines. Today, with more than 30 movies and roles in more than 30 television productions, Alyssa is popular because of her beauty and sexy figure.

Alyssa’s love life was quite interesting, but her relations lived for very short period. Alyssa was engaged to Scott Wolf (Double Dragon) in 1993, but their engagement was broken off. Alyssa met her husband singer Cinjun August Tate in 1999 and they got married after a few dates. Alyssa and Tate were separated soon within a year after their marriage.

Alyssa loves to listen to music, cooking, and reading occasionally, her favorite sport is hockey, knows piano and flute. Along with these all, she loves tattooing herself; she has five tattoos on her body which are: a sacred heart, a fairy kneeling on grass, rosary beads, an angel, an Orobous, an "Om" (Hindu Sacred Word), and a garland of flowers.

Alyssa has many achievements on her name which are: she was voted #4 in The Sexiest Women list by FHM in 2001 and at the same position in 2003, her 5 albums released in Japan which were platinum hits, her picture was used to create a lead character in an Ariel for "The Little Mermaid", appearance in many hit videos, her TV commercial for 1-800-COLLECT girl is one of the most memorable part of her career etc