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Name : Alyssa Jane Milano
Charmed : Phoebe Halliwell
Birthday December 19
Hometown Brooklyn, NY
Best known for her role on the long-running comedy Who's the Boss?, Alyssa Milano literally grew up on television.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Milano got her thespian start in 1980 with the national touring company of Annie. Soon after, at the age of 10, she was cast as Samantha Micelli in Who's the Boss? and starred on the series opposite Tony Danza for eight years. The show completed its last season in 1992, and she continued to hone her talents on both the big and small screens.
Most recently, Milano starred for two seasons on the primetime serial Melrose Place, and Gold Rush, an original television movie on The Wonderful World of Disney. Milano starred in the title role in the feature comedy Hugo Pool. Directed by Robert Downey, Sr. and co-starring Sean Penn, Malcolm McDowell and Richard Lewis, the film chronicled a day in the life of a Bel-Air pool cleaner (Milano). Her additional feature credits include the psychological thriller Fear with Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg, Double Dragon, Where the Day Takes You, Commando and Little Sister and, most recently, Below Utopia.
She has starred in a wide range of television movie roles including Braving Alaska, The Surrogate, Casualty of Love: The Buttafuoco/Fisher Story in which she played Amy Fisher. She also guest-starred in an episode of Showtime's Rebel Highway. On stage, Alyssa starred in Tender Offer, a one-act play written by Wendy Wasserstein; All Night Long; and the first American musical adaptation of Jane Eyre. She returned to her theater roots in 1991 when she starred in and produced a Los Angeles production of Butterflies Are Free.