Alyssa Milano Memoir
14 Feb 2008 Leave a Comment
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Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress and former singer. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Samantha Micelli in the sitcom Who’s the Boss?, Phoebe Halliwell on the supernatural series Charmed or via her new female apparel clothing line Touch. Recently, she has appeared in a recurring role on My Name is Earl.
Milano was born in New York City, the daughter of Italian-American parents Lin, a former fashion designer and talent manager, and Thomas M. Milano, a film music editor and a well-known boating enthusiast. She has a younger brother, Cory (born in 1982), who is also an actor, but has more recently started a band, called Chloroform Days, in which he is the lead singer. Milano was born in Brooklyn but grew up in Staten Island, New York and was raised Catholic.
Outside of acting, her hobbies include photography, humanitarian work and spending time with her three dogs and eight horses.
Milano suffers from dyslexia. In an interview in 2004, Milano explained how she deals with the disorder:
“I’ve stumbled over words while reading from TelePrompters. Sir John Gielgud, whom I worked with on The Canterville Ghost years ago, gave me great advice. When I asked how he memorized his monologues, he said, ‘I write them down.’ I use that method to this day. It not only familiarizes me with the words, it makes them my own.”
Milano is an avid fan of tattoos, and has eight of them located in various areas of her body, including both wrists, both ankles, shoulder, neck, hip and lower back. Milano is also an avid fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2007 she created her own signature “Touch” line of team apparel for female baseball fans, currently available on Major League Baseball’s website, along with her own baseball blog. She also has an avid interest in the Los Angeles Kings, a National Hockey League team and is involved with a related clothing line. Milano is also a strong Vegetarian and appears in numerous PETA advertising campaigns for Vegetarianism.
Milano was engaged to television actor Scott Wolf famous from Party Of Five in 1992, but he called it off before marriage.
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