Birthday
September 5
Hometown
Florence, Italy
Over the years, Rose had a variety of jobs and often had to lie about her age in order to get them. She worked as a waitress, sales clerk, ticket taker and other minimum wage jobs. She was even forced to live on the streets for a while. Rose went to several beauty schools, and eventually followed a boyfrend to L.A. While she was there, she started her acting career with a cameo in the movie "Encino Man."
Her first acting opportunity came in 1992's Encino Man, but it was over three years before she did any other roles. Her first real break came while she was in L.A. to attend arts school and Gregg Araki met her outside of a gym and decided to cast her in his Sundance entry, Doom Generation. Despite the fact that most of her fame has come from more commercial films like Scream, Bio-Dome and Phantoms, most of her roles have been independent productions, and she is often compared to indie-queen Parker Posey.
Rose McGowan has just got out of a 3 1/2 year relationship with rocker Marilyn Manson. They met at the 1997 premere for the movie Gummo. They were engaged to be married, but their lifestyle differences parted them. |  |
Birthday
December 3
Hometown
San Diego, CA
Holly Marie Combs, familiar to audiences for her role as teen-aged Kimberly Brock on the Emmy Award-winning series "Picket Fences," has returned to series television in "Charmed."
Combs was born in San Diego, Calif., and moved with her family to New York when she was 8 years old. Following in her mother's footsteps as an aspiring actress, she began her career working in television commercials and print advertisements at age 10. She won her first movie role by 13, playing the daughter of Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon in the feature film "Sweet Hearts Dance." At 18, Combs got her big break starring for four seasons as the insightful daughter of parents played by Tom Skerritt and Kathy Baker in the critically acclaimed drama "Picket Fences." In television movies, she has played an impressive range of starring roles, including the daughter of a murdered heiress in the fact-based "Daughters," killer Diane Zamora in "Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder" and a rape victim in "Sins of Silence."
In feature films, Combs played a young girl propositioned by a wheelchair-bound Tom Cruise in the 1989 Vietnam War saga "Born on the Fourth of July." Additional big-screen credits include "Chain of Desire" with Malcolm McDowell and Linda Fiorentino, and "Simple Men." |
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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.
A performer of many talents, Milano also enjoys a successful recording career in the Orient, having released five albums including her most recent work, Do You See Me? Her first album, Look In My Heart, was second only to Madonna and achieved platinum status. |
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